Scott Goodyear

Scott Goodyear (born December 20, 1959) is a Canadian former race car driver. He ran the Indy Racing League and Champ Car series during his career from 1987, winning the Michigan 500 in 1992 and 1994.

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
Indy Racing League
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

Goodyear qualified for eleven runnings of the Indy 500 races 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 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 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, 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.[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[3] as the Race Director for both the Formula 4 United States Championship and the F3 Americas Championship starting in the 2019 season.