1996 Indy Lights season

1996 Indy Lights season
1996 Indy Lights season
PPG/Firestone Indy Lights Championship
Season
Races	12
Start date	March 3
End date	September 8
Awards
Drivers' champion	David Empringham

The 1996 PPG/Firestone Indy Lights Championship Powered By Buick consisted of 12 races. Canadian David Empringham captured three wins on his way to the championship.^[1]

Team and driver chart

The following drivers and teams competed in the series:

Team	No.	Drivers	Round(s)
Brian Stewart Racing	2	Mattias Andersson	1–2
		Nick Firestone	4–9
		Felipe Giaffone	11–12
	3	Gualter Salles	All
	61	Jack Miller	All
Dorricott Racing	31	Shigeaki Hattori	All
Dorricott Racing	32	Jeff Ward	All
FRE Racing	17	José Cordova	1–2
		Peter Faucetta Jr.	3
		Jaki Scheckter	5–7, 12
		Robbie Buhl	9
Forsythe Racing	33	David Empringham	All
	66	Claude Bourbonnais	All
	99	Bertrand Godin	9–12
Genoa Racing	24	David DeSilva	All
Indy Regency Racing	28	Hideki Noda	All
Leading Edge Motorsports	4	Felipe Giaffone	1–8
		José Giaffone	10–12
		Sohrab Amirsardari	9
	5	Sohrab Amirsardari	6
	23	Mark Hotchkis	All
	77	Rodolfo Lavín	1–2, 4–12
PacWest Lights	10	Bob Reid	9
	10	Robby Unser	1–2
	12	Robby Unser	3–7, 9–12
	12	Casey Mears	8
Performance Racing	9	Andy Boss	1–2
Performance Racing	9	David LaCroix	11
RaceCars	88	Diego Gumzán	1
		Paulo Carcasci	2
		Freddy van Beuren	8–12
	89	Danny Candía	1
		Roque Aranda	2–4
		Maurício Slaviero	7–9
Summit Motorsports	20	Doug Boyer	1–2, 4–6
Tasman Motorsports	37	Tony Kanaan	All
	38	José Luís Di Palma	All
	39	Hélio Castroneves	All
Team Green	26	Chris Simmons	All
Team Green	27	Greg Ray	All
Team Leisy / McCormack	34	Harry Puterbaugh Jr.	1, 3
	34	Shan Groff	2, 12
	35	Niclas Jönsson	2
Team Medlin	12	Alex Padilla	1–3, 5–12

Schedule

Rd.	Date	Track	Location
1	March 3	O Homestead-Miami Speedway	Homestead, Florida
2	April 14	R Long Beach Street Circuit	Long Beach, California
3	April 28	O Nazareth Speedway	Nazareth, Pennsylvania
4	May 25	O Michigan International Speedway	Brooklyn, Michigan
5	June 2	O Milwaukee Mile	West Allis, Wisconsin
6	June 9	R The Raceway at Belle Isle Park	Detroit, Michigan
7	June 23	R Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
8	June 30	R Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport	Cleveland, Ohio
9	July 14	R Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario
10	August 4	R Circuit Trois-Rivières	Trois-Rivières, Quebec
11	September 1	R Streets of Vancouver	Vancouver, British Columbia
12	September 8	R Laguna Seca Raceway	Monterey, California

Race results

Round	Circuit	Pole position	Most laps led	Race Winner
Round	Circuit	Pole position	Most laps led	Driver	Team
1	Homestead-Miami Speedway	David Empringham	David Empringham	David Empringham	Forsythe Racing
2	Long Beach Street Circuit	Gualter Salles	David Empringham	David Empringham	Forsythe Racing
3	Nazareth Speedway	Claude Bourbonnais	David DeSilva	David DeSilva	Genoa Racing
4	Michigan International Speedway	David Empringham	David Empringham	David Empringham	Forsythe Racing
5	Milwaukee Mile	Mark Hotchkis	Mark Hotchkis	Mark Hotchkis	Leading Edge Motorsports
6	The Raceway at Belle Isle Park	David Empringham	Tony Kanaan	Tony Kanaan	Tasman Motorsports
7	Portland International Raceway	Tony Kanaan	Gualter Salles	Gualter Salles	Brian Stewart Racing
8	Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport	Mark Hotchkis	Gualter Salles	Gualter Salles	Brian Stewart Racing
9	Exhibition Place	Jeff Ward	Gualter Salles	Gualter Salles	Brian Stewart Racing
10	Circuit Trois-Rivières	Hélio Castroneves	Hélio Castroneves	Hélio Castroneves	Tasman Motorsports
11	Streets of Vancouver	Jeff Ward	Tony Kanaan	Claude Bourbonnais	Forsythe Racing
12	Laguna Seca Raceway	Tony Kanaan	Tony Kanaan	Tony Kanaan	Tasman Motorsports

Race summaries

Homestead race

Held March 3 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. David Empringham won the pole.

Top Five Results

Long Beach race

Held April 14 at Long Beach, California Street Course. Gualter Salles won the pole.

Top Five Results

Nazareth race

Held April 28 at Nazareth Speedway. Claude Bourbonnais won the pole.

Top Five Results

Michigan race

Held May 25 at Michigan International Speedway. David Empringham won the pole.

Top Five Results

Milwaukee race

Held June 2 at The Milwaukee Mile. Mark Hotchkis won the pole.

Top Five Results

Detroit race

Held June 9 at Belle Isle Raceway. David Empringham won the pole.

Top Five Results

Portland race

Held June 23 at Portland International Raceway. Tony Kanaan won the pole.

Top Five Results

Cleveland race

Held June 30 at Burke Lakefront Airport. Mark Hotchkis won the pole.

Top Five Results

Toronto race

Held July 14 at Exhibition Place. Jeff Ward won the pole.

Top Five Results

Trois-Rivières race

Held August 4 at the Trois-Rivières, Quebec Street Circuit. Hélio Castro-Neves won the pole.

Top Five Results

Vancouver race

Held September 1 at Pacific Place. Jeff Ward won the pole.

Top Five Results

Laguna Seca race

Held September 8 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Tony Kanaan won the pole.

Top Five Results

Championship standings

Drivers' championship

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th
Points	20	16	14	12	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1

The driver who qualifies on pole is awarded one additional point.
An additional point is awarded to the driver who leads the most laps in a race.

Pos	Driver	HMS	LBH	NAZ	MIS	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	TRO	VAN	LAG	Points
1	David Empringham	1*	1*	2	1*	3	21	3	21	6	4	5	6	148
2	Tony Kanaan	10	2	12	17	7	1*	5	19	24	2	2*	1*	113
3	Gualter Salles	6	3	11	6	4	22	1*	1*	1*	15	21	19	108
4	Claude Bourbonnais	Wth	7	16	18	8	3	4	2	2	20	1	3	104
5	Mark Hotchkis	3	9	3	2	1*	9	10	18	9	19	3	7	102
6	Alex Padilla	17	5	15		17	2	2	20	5	3	4	4	90
7	Hélio Castroneves	DNS	4	17	5	11	17	8	3	23	1*	10	2	84
8	David DeSilva	4	10	1*	7	19	6	12	16	15	7	18	9	61
9	José Luís Di Palma	15	6	6	8	14	4	11	7	8	11	6	13	56
10	Chris Simmons	2	23	4	12	5	7	21	11	14	17	7	12	54
11	Jeff Ward	5	8	5	3	DNS	11	17	13	20	16	20	5	53
12	Greg Ray	7	11	18	15	2	8	6	10	16	6	17	16	48
13	Shigeaki Hattori	9	DNS	10	19	6	13	7	9	4	8	16	14	42
14	Hideki Noda	11	16	7	13	12	16	20	5	3	12	13	15	34
15	Robby Unser	13	15	14	4	10	10	15		10	9	14	20	25
16	Bertrand Godin									7	5	11	10	21
17	Felipe Giaffone	14	24	13	10	9	18	16	6			22	8	20
18	Nick Firestone				11	16	20	9	4	19				18
19	Jaki Scheckter						5	18					11	12
20	Jack Miller	21	18	6	20	18	15	19	14	21	10	9	23	12
21	Roque Aranda		20	9	9									8
22	Freddy van Beuren								12	12	13	8	17	7
23	Doug Boyer	8	22		16	13	19							5
24	Casey Mears								8					5
25	Robbie Buhl									11				2
26	Rodolfo Lavín	16	19		14	15	12	14	15	13	18	12	21	2
27	Shan Groff		12										22	1
28	José Cordova	12	25											1
29	Mauricio Slaviero							13	17	18				0
30	Mattias Andersson	20	13											0
31	Sohrab Amirsardari						14			17				0
32	José Giaffone										14	19	18	0
33	Andy Boss	19	14											0
34	David LaCroix											15		0
35	Niclas Jönsson		17											0
36	Diego Guzmán	18												0
37	Peter Faucetta Jr.			19										0
38	Paulo Carcasci		21											0
39	Danny Candía	22												0
40	Bob Reid									22				0
41	Harry Puterbaugh Jr.	23		DNS										0
Pos	Driver	HMS	LBH	NAZ	MIS	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	TRO	VAN	LAG	Points

Color	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	4th & 5th place
Light Blue	6th–10th place
Dark Blue	Finished (Outside Top 10)
Purple	Did not finish
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Brown	Withdrawn (Wth)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
Blank	Not competing

In-line notation
Bold	Pole position(1 point)
Italics	Ran fastest race lap
*	Led most race laps (2 points)
¹	Qualifying cancelled no bonus point awarded

Ties in points broken by number of wins, or best finishes.

References

↑ "Standings".

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