Scott Goodyear

Scott Goodyear
Scott Goodyear at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May 2008.
Nationality	Canadian
Born	(1959-12-20) December 20, 1959 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Retired	2001
IRL IndyCar Series
Years active	1997-2001
Teams	Treadway Racing Panther Racing Team Cheever
Starts	39
Wins	3
Poles	1
Fastest laps	2
Best finish	2nd in 2000
CART Championship Car
Years active	1987, 1989–1996
Teams	Gohr Motorsports Hemelgarn Racing Shierson Racing Walker Racing King Racing Tasman Motorsports
Starts	97
Wins	2
Poles	2
Best finish	5th in 1992
Previous series
1986	North American Formula Atlantic East Series
Championship titles
1986	North American Formula Atlantic East Series
Awards
2002	Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee

Scott Goodyear (born December 20, 1959) is a Canadian former race car driver. He ran the IRL IndyCar Series and Champ Car series during his career from 1987, winning the Michigan 500 in 1992 and 1994. He is also notable for almost winning the Indianapolis 500 on three different occasions.

Goodyear qualified for eleven runnings of the Indy 500 races from 1990 to 2001, missing only the 1996 race as his name wasn't entered. After starting last (33rd position) in the 1992 race, he finished 2nd to Al Unser, Jr. by 0.043 seconds. His main sponsor was Mackenzie Financial Corporation at the time.^[1] Goodyear could have won the 1995 race but after leading 42 laps, he mistakenly passed the pace car on a late restart and was penalized to fourteenth place after ignoring the black flags. Goodyear again finished 2nd 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 IRL IndyCar Series with Treadway Racing and the next year, he moved to Panther Racing, where he stayed for 3 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, previously with Paul Page, Jack Arute, Rusty Wallace, Todd Harris, Marty Reid, and currently with 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 only 3 out of the 8 races.^[2] 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 3rd behind the other GT1 and the winning 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.^[3]

Racing record

American open–wheel racing results

(key)

CART

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
1987	Gohr Motorsports	LBH	PHX	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA Ret	CLE 15	TOR 8	MIS	POC	ROA Ret	MDO Ret	NZR	LS 11	MIA 15			28th	7
1989	Hemelgarn Racing	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR Ret	MIS	POC	MDO	ROA Ret	NZR	LS			48th	0
1990	O'Donnell Racing Shierson Racing	PHX 10	LBH 17	INDY 10	MIL 10	DET 8	POR Ret	CLE Ret	MEA Ret	TOR 9	MIS 10	DEN 8	VAN 7	MDO 22	ROA 12	NZR 10	LS 14		13th	36
1991	Walker Racing	SRF Ret	LBH 7	PHX Ret	INDY Ret	MIL 9	DET 8	POR 10	CLE Ret	MEA 8	TOR 7	MIS Ret	DEN Ret	VAN 8	MDO 11	ROA 9	NZR Ret	LS Ret	13th	42
1992	Walker Racing	SRF 9	PHX Ret	LBH 5	INDY 2	DET Ret	POR 8	MIL 8	NHA 3	TOR 6	MIS 1	CLE 10	ROA Ret	VAN 5	MDO Ret	NZR 4	LS Ret		5th	108
1993	Walker Racing	SRF 10	PHX Ret	LBH Ret	INDY 7	MIL Ret	DET 10	POR 12	CLE Ret	TOR 9	MIS 5	NHA Ret	ROA 10	VAN 4	MDO 3	NZR 2	LS 4		9th	86
1994	King Racing	SRF 10	PHX 11	LBH Ret	INDY Ret	MIL 22	DET 11	POR Ret	CLE 14	TOR 10	MIS 1	MDO 22	NHA 11	VAN 4	ROA 7	NZR 8	LS Ret		12th	55
1995	Tasman Motorsports	MIA	SRF	PHX	LBH	NZR	INDY 14	MIL	DET	POR	ROA	TOR	CLE	MIS	MDO 12	NHA	VAN 14	LS	32nd	1
1996	Walker Racing	MIA 12	RIO DNS	SRF	LBH	NZR	500	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR 19	MIS	MDO	ROA	VAN 9	LS 18		25th	5

IndyCar

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Rank	Points
1996–1997	Treadway Racing	NHM	LVS	WDW 3	PHX 17	INDY 2	TXS 4	PPI 7	CLT 3	NH2 16	LV2 2				5th	226
1998	Panther Racing	WDW 17	PHX 6	INDY 24	TXS 4	NHM 2	DOV 6	CLT 3	PPI 18	ATL 4	TX2 22	LVS 22			7th	244
1999	Panther Racing	WDW 2	PHX 1	CLT C1	INDY 27	TXS 1	PPI 12	ATL 16	DOV 17	PP2 21	LVS 25	TX2 23			9th	217
2000	Panther Racing	WDW 4	PHX 2	LVS 12	INDY 9	TXS 5	PPI 16	ATL 11	KTY 2	TX2 1					2nd	272
2001	Team Cheever	PHX	HMS	ATL	INDY 32	TXS	PPI	RIR	KAN	NSH	KTY	STL	CHI	TX2	47th	1

¹ The 1999 VisionAire 500K at Charlotte was cancelled after 79 laps due to spectator fatalities. Goodyear qualified 3rd and was running 2nd when it was red-flagged.

IndyCar career summary

3 wins, 0 championships

Indianapolis 500

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
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

International Race of Champions

(key) (Bold – Pole position. * – Most laps led.)

See also

• List of Canadians in Champ Car

References

External links

• Scott Goodyear ESPN Bio
• 1992 video of Indy 500 finish