Scott Goodyear | |||||||
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Born | Donald Scott Goodyear December 20, 1959 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||
Championship titles | |||||||
Major victories Michigan 500 (1992, 1994) | |||||||
Champ Car career | |||||||
97 races run over 9 years | |||||||
Best finish | 5th (1992) | ||||||
First race | 1987 Meadowlands Indy (Meadowlands) | ||||||
Last race | 1996 Monterey Grand Prix (Laguna Seca) | ||||||
First win | 1992 Michigan 500 (Michigan) | ||||||
Last win | 1994 Michigan 500 (Michigan) | ||||||
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IndyCar Series career | |||||||
39 races run over 5 years | |||||||
Best finish | 2nd (2000) | ||||||
First race | 1997 Indy 200 at Walt Disney World (Orlando) | ||||||
Last race | 2001 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
First win | 1999 MCI WorldCom 200 (Phoenix) | ||||||
Last win | 2000 Excite 500 (Texas) | ||||||
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24 Hours of Le Mans career | |||||||
Years | 1987, 1996 | ||||||
Teams | Brun, Porsche AG | ||||||
Best finish | 3rd (1996) | ||||||
Class wins | 0 |
Donald Scott Goodyear (born December 20, 1959) is a Canadian retired racing driver. He competed in CART Championship cars and the Indy Racing League. Along with Michael Andretti, Goodyear is the only driver to have won the Michigan 500 more than once, in 1992 and 1994. Goodyear also twice finished second in the Indianapolis 500, both times under contentious circumstances.
Goodyear qualified for eleven runnings of the Indianapolis 500, from 1990 to 2001, missing only the 1996 race, which he did not enter. After starting last (33rd position) in the 1992 race, he finished second to Al Unser Jr. by 0.043 seconds. Goodyear could have won the 1995 race, driving with Tasman Motorsports, but after leading 42 laps, he mistakenly passed the pace car on a late, very slow restart. He was penalized to fourteenth place after ignoring the black flags. That race was eventually won by Jacques Villeneuve. Goodyear again finished second in the 1997 race after being passed by Arie Luyendyk on the backstraightaway at lap 194. He might have won if not for a controversial restart on the last lap, when the green and white flag waved despite the on-track lights still signaling yellow. Goodyear, who had expected the race to finish under caution, was weaving his car to keep his tires warm at the time of the restart. Meanwhile, eventual winner Luyendyk had already begun accelerating away from the field.
He drove in a couple of CART races for Walker Racing in 1996 before a practice accident at the Emerson Fittipaldi Speedway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil sidelined him for most of the season. In 1997 he moved to the Indy Racing League with Treadway Racing and the next year, he moved to Panther Racing, where he stayed for three seasons just losing out for the series title in 2000 to Buddy Lazier. He retired from his racing career after a crash with Sarah Fisher in the 2001 Indianapolis 500 and then he became a color analyst for ABC and ESPN's coverage of the IndyCar Series, with Paul Page, Jack Arute, Rusty Wallace, Todd Harris, Marty Reid, Allen Bestwick and Eddie Cheever.
In 1988, he was crowned champion of the Rothmans Porsche Turbo Cup series driving the Pop 84 / Pfaff 944 Turbo race car, winning 3 out of the 8 races. [1] He also co-drove the second of the factory entered Porsche GT1 machines in the 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans with Yannick Dalmas and Karl Wendlinger. They finished third behind the other GT1 and the winning #7 Porsche WSC-95 of Joest Racing. Goodyear was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. [2] Goodyear was announced as the Race Director for both the Formula 4 United States Championship and the F3 Americas Championship starting in the 2019 season. [3]
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Year | Team | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Rank | Points | Ref |
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1987 | Gohr Motorsports | March 87C | Cosworth DFX V8 t | LBH | PHX | INDY | MIL | POR | MEA 22 | TOR 8 | MIS | POC | ROA 20 | MDO 18 | NZR | LS 11 | MIA 15 | 28th | 7 | [4] | |||
March 86C | CLE 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1989 | Hemelgarn Racing | Lola T89/00 | Judd AV V8 t | PHX | LBH | INDY | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | MEA | TOR 23 | MIS | POC | MDO | ROA 23 | NZR | LS | 48th | 0 | [5] | ||
1990 | O'Donnell Racing Shierson Racing | Lola T89/00 | Judd AV V8 t | PHX 10 | LBH 17 | INDY 10 | MIL 10 | DET 8 | POR 22 | CLE 18 | MEA 17 | TOR 9 | MIS 10 | DEN 8 | VAN 7 | MDO 22 | ROA 12 | NZR 10 | LS 14 | 13th | 36 | [6] | |
1991 | O'Donnell Racing Walker Racing | Lola T91/00 | Judd AV V8 t | SRF 23 | LBH 7 | PHX 21 | INDY 27 | MIL 9 | DET 8 | POR 10 | CLE 19 | MEA 8 | TOR 7 | MIS 15 | DEN 24 | VAN 8 | MDO 11 | ROA 9 | NZR 21 | LS 11 | 13th | 42 | [7] |
1992 | Walker Racing | Lola T91/00 | Chevrolet 265A V8 t | SRF 9 | 5th | 108 | [8] | ||||||||||||||||
Lola T92/00 | PHX 18 | LBH 5 | INDY 2 | DET 22 | POR 8 | MIL 8 | NHA 3 | TOR 6 | MIS 1 | CLE 10 | ROA 20 | VAN 5 | MDO 16 | NZR 4 | LS 26 | ||||||||
1993 | Walker Racing | Lola T93/00 | Ford XB V8 t | SRF 10 | PHX 20 | LBH 16 | INDY 7 | MIL 23 | DET 10 | POR 12 | CLE 20 | TOR 9 | MIS 5 | NHA 19 | ROA 10 | VAN 4 | MDO 3 | NZR 2 | LS 4 | 9th | 86 | [9] | |
1994 | King Racing | Lola T94/00 | Ford XB V8 t | SRF 10 | PHX 11 | LBH 19 | INDY 30 | MIL 22 | DET 11 | POR 28 | CLE 14 | TOR 10 | MIS 1 | MDO 22 | NHA 11 | VAN 4 | ROA 7 | NZR 8 | LS 27 | 12th | 55 | [10] | |
1995 | Tasman Motorsports | Reynard 95i | Honda HRH V8 t | MIA | SRF | PHX | LBH | NZR | INDY 14 | MIL | DET | POR | ROA | TOR | CLE | MIS | MDO 12 | NHA | VAN 14 | LS | 32nd | 1 | [11] |
1996 | Walker Racing | Reynard 96i | Ford XB V8 t | MIA 12 | RIO DNS | SRF | LBH | NZR | 500 | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | TOR 19 | MIS | MDO | ROA | VAN 9 | LS 18 | 25th | 5 | [12] |
Year | Team | Chassis | No. | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Rank | Points | Ref |
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1996–1997 | Treadway Racing | G-Force GF01 | 6 | Oldsmobile Aurora V8 | NHM | LVS | WDW 3 | PHX 17 | INDY 2 | TXS 4 | PPIR 7 | CLT 3 | NH2 16 | LV2 2 | 5th | 226 | [13] | |||
1998 | Panther Racing | G-Force GF01B | 4 | WDW 17 | PHX 6 | INDY 24 | TXS 4 | NHM 2 | DOV 6 | CLT 3 | PPIR 18 | ATL 4 | TX2 22 | LVS 22 | 7th | 244 | [14] | |||
1999 | G-Force GF01C | WDW 2 | PHX 1 | CLT C1 | INDY 27 | TXS 1 | PPIR 12 | ATL 16 | DOV 17 | PPIR 21 | LVS 25 | TX2 23 | 9th | 217 | [15] | |||||
2000 | Dallara IR-00 | WDW 4 | PHX 2 | LVS 12 | INDY 9 | TXS 5 | PPIR 16 | ATL 11 | KTY 2 | TX2 1 | 2nd | 272 | [16] | |||||||
2001 | Team Cheever | Dallara IR-01 | 52 | Infiniti VRH35ADE V8 | PHX | HMS | ATL | INDY 32 | TXS | PPIR | RIR | KAN | NSH | KTY | STL | CHI | TX2 | 48th | 1 | [17] |
Year | Team | Wins | Points | Championship Finish |
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1997 | Treadway Racing | 0 | 226 | 5th |
1998 | Panther Racing | 0 | 244 | 7th |
1999 | Panther Racing | 2 | 217 | 9th |
2000 | Panther Racing | 1 | 272 | 2nd |
2001 | Team Cheever | 0 | 1 | 47th |
3 wins, 0 championships
Year | Chassis | Engine | No. | Start | Finish | Team |
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1990 | Lola T89/00 | Judd AV V8 t | 28 | 21 | 10 | O'Donnell/Shierson Racing |
1991 | Lola T91/00 | Judd AV V8 t | 15 | 12 | 27 | O'Donnell Racing |
1992 | Lola T92/00 | Chevrolet 265A V8 t | 15 | 33 | 2 | Walker Racing |
1993 | Lola T93/00 | Ford XB V8 t | 2 | 4 | 7 | Walker Racing |
1994 | Lola T94/00 | Ford XB V8 t | 40 | 33 | 30 | King Racing |
1995 | Reynard 95i | Honda HRH V8 t | 24 | 3 | 14 | Tasman Motorsports |
1997 | G-Force GF01 | Oldsmobile Aurora V8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | Treadway Racing |
1998 | G-Force GF01B | Oldsmobile Aurora V8 | 4 | 10 | 24 | Panther Racing |
1999 | G-Force GF01C | Oldsmobile Aurora V8 | 4 | 9 | 27 | Panther Racing |
2000 | Dallara IR-00 | Oldsmobile Aurora V8 | 4 | 13 | 9 | Panther Racing |
2001 | Dallara IR-01 | Infiniti VRH35ADE V8 | 52 | 16 | 32 | Team Cheever |
Year | Class | No | Tyres | Car | Team | Co-Drivers | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
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1987 | C1 | 3 | M | Porsche 956 Porsche Type-935 2.8L Turbo Flat-6 | Brun Motorsport | Bill Adam Richard Spenard | 120 | DNF | DNF |
1996 | GT1 | 26 | M | Porsche 911 GT1 Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 | Porsche AG | Karl Wendlinger Yannick Dalmas | 341 | 3rd | 2nd |
(key) (Bold – Pole position. * – Most laps led.)
International Race of Champions results | ||||||||
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Year | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Pos. | Points | Ref |
2001 | Pontiac | DAY 6 | TAL 9 | MCH | IND | 7th | 42 | [20] |
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