Scott Goodyear

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Scott Goodyear
Goodyear in 2008
Born	Donald Scott Goodyear (1959-12-20) December 20, 1959 (age 64) 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)
Wins Podiums Poles 2 6 2
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)
Wins Podiums Poles 3 12 1
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]