1989 IndyCar season

1989 American Championship Car season
Series  : IndyCar
Champion : Emerson Fittipaldi
Previous: 1988	Next: 1990

The 1989 IndyCar season, the eleventh in the CART era of U.S. open-wheel racing, consisted of 16 races, beginning in Avondale, Arizona on April 9 and concluding in Monterey, California on October 15. There was one non-championship event, the Marlboro Challenge. The PPG Indy Car World Series Drivers' Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Emerson Fittipaldi. Rookie of the Year was Bernard Jourdain. The 73rd Indianapolis 500 was sanctioned by the USAC, but counted in the CART points standings.

Drivers and constructors

The following teams and drivers competed for the 1989 Indy Car World Series.

Team	Chassis	Engine	Tires	No	Drivers	Notes
Newman/Haas Racing	Lola	Chevrolet	Goodyear	5	Mario Andretti
				6	Michael Andretti
Patrick Racing	Penske	Chevrolet	Goodyear	20	Emerson Fittipaldi
Galles Racing	Lola	Chevrolet	Goodyear	2	Al Unser, Jr.
Team Penske	Penske	Chevrolet	Goodyear	1	Danny Sullivan	not competing at Portland & Cleveland
					Geoff Brabham	Portland only
				4	Rick Mears
				25/1	Al Unser	Indianapolis 500, Cleveland, Michigan & Pocono only
Porsche North America	March	Porsche	Goodyear	8	Teo Fabi
Truesports	Lola	Judd	Goodyear	3	Scott Pruett	did not start at Long Beach
Kraco Racing	Lola	Cosworth	Goodyear	18	Bobby Rahal
Dick Simon Racing	Lola	Cosworth/ Buick	Goodyear	7/9	Arie Luyendyk
				22	Scott Brayton	disqualified (oversize wing) at Detroit
				28	Randy Lewis	not competing at Nazareth, start at Indianapolis 500 with TeamKar
				17	Joe Sposato	Laguna Seca only but did not qualify
Doug Shierson Racing	Lola	Judd	Goodyear	30	Raul Boesel
Raynor Racing	Lola	Judd	Goodyear	10	Derek Daly
Machinists Union Racing	March	Cosworth	Goodyear	11	Kevin Cogan	not competing at Nazareth
					Johnny Rutherford	Nazareth only but did not qualify
	Lola			29/24	Pancho Carter	start at Indianapolis 500 with Leader Card Racing
Protofab Racing	Lola	Cosworth	Goodyear	15	James Weaver	Long Beach, Detroit & Cleveland only
				65	John Jones	not competing at Nazareth
A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Lola	Cosworth	Goodyear	14	A. J. Foyt	withdrew (electrical) at Portland, not competing at Cleveland & Laguna Seca
					Rocky Moran	Laguna Seca only
	March			29	Rich Vogler	Indianapolis 500 only
Bayside Motorsports	Lola	Cosworth	Goodyear	86	Dominic Dobson	Phoenix, Long Beach, Indianapolis 500, Detroit, Portland, Meadowlands, Toronto & Laguna Seca only
Andale Racing	Lola	Cosworth	Goodyear	69	Bernard Jourdain	not competing at Road America
					Johnny Parsons	Indianapolis 500 only but did not qualify
Euromotorsport	Lola	Cosworth	Goodyear	50/16	Jean-Pierre Frey	Phoenix & Portland only, did not qualify at Milwaukee & Detroit, entry declined (not enough experience) at Indianapolis 500
				50	Davy Jones	Indianapolis 500 only
					Scott Atchison	Portland, Cleveland & Meadowlands only
					Tero Palmroth	Pocono only
					Guido Daccò	Michigan, Mid-Ohio, Road America, Nazareth & Laguna Seca only
Alex Morales Motorsports	March	Alfa Romeo	Goodyear	21	Roberto Guerrero	not competing at Phoenix, Long Beach, Indianapolis 500 & Milwaukee
Arciero Racing	Penske	Cosworth	Goodyear	12	Didier Theys	Phoenix, Long Beach, Indianapolis 500 & Milwaukee only
					Fabrizio Barbazza	Detroit, Portland, Cleveland, Meadowlands, Toronto, Mid-Ohio, Road America & Laguna Seca only
					Rich Vogler	Michigan only
Hemelgarn Racing	Lola	Judd/ Buick	Goodyear	71	Ludwig Heimrath	Phoenix, Long Beach, Indianapolis 500, Toronto, Mid-Ohio, Road America & Nazareth only, did not start at Milwaukee, did not qualify at Michigan & Laguna Seca
					Tero Palmroth	Detroit only
				71/91	Didier Theys	Detroit, Portland, Cleveland & Meadowlands only
				91	Gordon Johncock	Indianapolis 500, Michigan & Pocono only
					Scott Goodyear	Toronto & Road America only
					Robby Unser	Laguna Seca only but did not qualify
				81	Billy Vukovich III	Indianapolis 500 only
Granatelli Racing	Lola/March	Buick/ Cosworth	Goodyear	9	Didier Theys	Mid-Ohio, Road America, Nazareth & Laguna Seca only
				9/70	John Andretti	Indianapolis 500, Toronto, Michigan, Pocono, Nazareth & Laguna Seca only
				9/7	Tom Sneva	Long Beach, Indianapolis 500, Milwaukee, Detroit, Portland, Cleveland & Meadowlands only, did not start (wrecked after qualifying) at Phoenix
Dale Coyne Racing	Lola	Cosworth	Goodyear	19	Guido Daccò	Phoenix, Long Beach, Milwaukee, Detroit, Portland & Cleveland only, did not qualify at Indianapolis 500 & Meadowlands
					Dale Coyne	Pocono only
					Fulvio Ballabio	Mid-Ohio only, did not qualify at Road America
					Ken Johnson	Laguna Seca only
					John Paul, Jr.	Michigan only but did not qualify
ATEC Environmental	Lola	Cosworth	Goodyear	96	Guido Daccò	Toronto only
Bernstein Racing	Lola	Buick	Goodyear	15	Jim Crawford	Indianapolis 500 only
Saleen	March	Cosworth	Goodyear	59	Steve Saleen	Long Beach, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, Mid-Ohio, Road America & Laguna Seca only, did not qualify at Indianapolis 500
Gohr Racing	Lola/March	Cosworth	Goodyear	56	Jeff Wood	Cleveland, Meadowlands, Michigan, Mid-Ohio & Road America only, did not qualify at Toronto, Nazareth & Laguna Seca
					Tero Palmroth	Long Beach & Indianapolis 500 only
Bettenhausen Motorsports	Lola	Cosworth	Goodyear	16	Jon Beekhuis	Toronto, Road America & Laguna Seca only
					Steve Chassey	Meadowlands & Michigan only
					Michael Greenfield	Pocono only but did not qualify
					Dennis Vitolo	Detroit & Mid-Ohio only but did not qualify
				15/16	John Paul, Jr.	Cleveland & Meadowlands only
				27	Fulvio Ballabio	Long Beach only
					Tony Bettenhausen, Jr.	Pocono only
Mann Motorsports	Lola	Buick	Goodyear	99	Gary Bettenhausen	Indianapolis 500 only
				96	John Paul, Jr.	Detroit only, did not qualify at Laguna Seca
					Mark Dismore	Mid-Ohio only
Stoops Freightliner	Lola	Cosworth	Goodyear	17	Johnny Rutherford	Michigan & Pocono only
					Steve Butler	Indianapolis 500 only but did not qualify
U.S. Engineering	Lola	Cosworth	Goodyear	44	Scott Harrington	Road America only, did not qualify at Indianapolis 500 & Laguna Seca
					Phil Krueger	Michigan only
Team Lazier	March	Cosworth	Goodyear	35	Buddy Lazier	Indianapolis 500 only but did not qualify
Curb Racing	March	Cosworth	Goodyear	33	Rocky Moran	Indianapolis 500 only

Results

Races

Rnd	Race Name	Circuit	City/Location	Date	Pole position	Winning driver	Winning team	Report
1	April 9	Checker Autoworks 200	Phoenix International Raceway	Phoenix, Arizona	Rick Mears	Rick Mears	Team Penske	Report
2	April 16	Long Beach Grand Prix	Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, California	Al Unser, Jr.	Al Unser, Jr.	Galles Racing	Report
3	May 28	73rd Indianapolis 500	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Rick Mears	Emerson Fittipaldi	Patrick Racing	Report
4	June 4	Dana-Rex Mays 200	Milwaukee Mile	West Allis, Wisconsin	Rick Mears	Rick Mears	Team Penske	Report
5	June 18	Valvoline Detroit Grand Prix	Streets of Detroit	Detroit, Michigan	Michael Andretti	Emerson Fittipaldi	Patrick Racing	Report
6	June 25	Budweiser/G. I. Joe's 200	Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon	Teo Fabi	Emerson Fittipaldi	Patrick Racing	Report
7	July 2	Cleveland Grand Prix	Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport	Cleveland, Ohio	Michael Andretti	Emerson Fittipaldi	Patrick Racing	Report
8	July 16	Meadowlands Grand Prix	Meadowlands Sports Complex	East Rutherford, New Jersey	Emerson Fittipaldi	Bobby Rahal	Kraco Racing	Report
9	July 23	Molson Indy Toronto	Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario	Emerson Fittipaldi	Michael Andretti	Newman/Haas Racing	Report
10	August 6	Marlboro 500	Michigan International Speedway	Brooklyn, Michigan	Emerson Fittipaldi	Michael Andretti	Newman/Haas Racing	Report
11	August 20	Pocono 500	Pocono Raceway	Long Pond, Pennsylvania	Emerson Fittipaldi	Danny Sullivan	Team Penske	Report
12	September 3	Red Roof Inns 200	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	Teo Fabi	Teo Fabi	Porsche North America	Report
13	September 10	Race for Life 200	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin	Danny Sullivan	Danny Sullivan	Team Penske	Report
14	September 24	Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix	Nazareth Speedway	Nazareth, Pennsylvania	Rick Mears	Emerson Fittipaldi	Patrick Racing	Report
NC	October 14	Marlboro Challenge	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California	Emerson Fittipaldi	Al Unser, Jr.	Galles Racing	Report
15	October 15	Champion Spark Plug 300	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California	Rick Mears	Rick Mears	Team Penske	Report

  Oval/Speedway

  Road Course/Street Circuit

  Non-championship race

• Indianapolis was USAC-sanctioned but counted towards the CART title.

Full Series Results

Final driver standings

Pos Driver PHX LBH INDY MIL DET POR CLE MEA TOR MIC POC MDO ROA NAZ LAG Pts 1 Emerson Fittipaldi 5 3 1* 16 1 1* 1* 2 2 14 19 4 5 1* 5 196 2 Rick Mears 1* 5 23 1* 5 8 5 4 5 7 2* 6 3 2 1* 186 3 Michael Andretti 4 2 17 2 13* 6 18 18* 1 1* 3 3 6* 5 7 150 4 Teo Fabi 6 27 30 3 4 4 4 9 4 2 4 1* 2 16 19 141 5 Al Unser, Jr. 2 1* 2 8 21 10 7 5 20 4 9 2 20 4 3 136 6 Mario Andretti 8 18 4 7 3 25 2 20 26 3 5 7 7 8 2 110 7 Danny Sullivan 3 8 28 10 24 8 3* 23 1 5 1 3 14 107 8 Scott Pruett 11 DNS 10 5 2 5 6 3 6 17 8 19 8 6 4 101 9 Bobby Rahal 18 4 26 13 18 2 3 1 19 9 6 22 28 7 6 88 10 Arie Luyendyk 17 7 21 6 6 3 9 7 24 6 23 8 4 13 9 75 11 Raul Boesel 14 6 3 4 28 7 8 6 7 20 20 23 9 11 10 68 12 Derek Daly 12 9 15 21 25 11 22 25 16 5 24 9 27 9 18 25 13 Pancho Carter 7 17 22 9 10 9 14 13 27 26 12 28 19 18 24 18 14 Kevin Cogan 10 26 32 19 17 24 11 12 9 25 22 10 18 8 18 15 Scott Brayton 15 12 6 18 DSQ 13 28 10 14 11 14 15 13 10 20 17 16 Al Unser 24 10 8 7 14 17 John Jones 16 20 11 11 11 19 25 11 18 16 10 13 10 22 14 18 A. J. Foyt 22 25 5 20 26 Wth 23 17 18 21 21 22 14 10 19 Dominic Dobson 23 19 18 7 18 17 11 11 10 20 Bernard Jourdain 19 13 9 12 15 22 19 19 10 19 11 27 15 23 10 21 Didier Theys 20 23 20 17 9 20 12 26 11 11 21 17 9 22 Davy Jones 7 6 23 Roberto Guerrero 8 23 13 22 28 22 16 12 21 20 25 6 24 Fabrizio Barbazza 20 21 26 24 8 20 12 21 6 25 Rich Vogler 8 28 5 26 Ludwig Heimrath 9 24 13 DNS 22 DNQ 25 17 17 DNQ 4 27 Johnny Rutherford DNQ 10 13 DNQ 3 28 Tom Sneva DNS 10 27 22 23 26 20 27 3 29 Guido Daccò 24 22 DNQ 14 12 12 21 DNQ 21 13 26 26 12 26 3 30 James Weaver 11 22 24 2 31 Steve Saleen 14 DNQ 14 17 12 14 25 13 1 32 Jeff Wood 15 15 DNQ 12 16 15 DNQ DNQ 1 33 John Andretti 25 25 24 17 19 12 1 34 Billy Vukovich III 12 1 35 Randy Lewis 13 15 29 15 16 16 23 16 15 27 18 17 14 16 0 36 Jon Beekhuis 13 24 15 0 37 Scott Atchison 17 27 14 0 38 Rocky Moran 14 28 0 39 Geoff Brabham 14 0 40 Gordon Johncock 31 21 15 0 41 Jean-Pierre Frey 21 Wth DNQ DNQ 15 0 42 Phil Krueger DNQ 15 0 43 Tero Palmroth 16 16 27 25 0 44 John Paul, Jr. DNQ 19 16 21 DNQ DNQ 0 45 Scott Harrington DNQ 16 DNQ 0 46 Fulvio Ballabio 21 18 DNQ 0 47 Jim Crawford 19 0 48 Scott Goodyear 23 23 0 49 Mark Dismore 24 0 50 Tony Bettenhausen, Jr. DNQ DNQ 26 0 51 Dale Coyne DNQ 27 0 52 Ken Johnson 27 0 53 Steve Chassey DNQ 28 29 0 54 Gary Bettenhausen 33 0 Tom Bigelow DNQ 0 Steve Butler DNQ 0 Dick Ferguson DNQ 0 Stan Fox DNQ 0 Michael Greenfield DNQ DNQ 0 Andy Hillenburg Wth 0 Buddy Lazier DNQ DNQ 0 Bobby Olivero DNQ 0 Johnny Parsons DNQ 0 Joe Sposato DNQ 0 Robby Unser DNQ 0 Dennis Vitolo DNQ DNQ 0 Kevin Whitesides DNQ 0 Pos Driver PHX LBH INDY MIL DET POR CLE MEA TOR MIC POC MDO ROA NAZ LAG Pts

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) Not competing In-line notation Bold Pole position * Led most race laps Rookie of the Year Rookie

Point Scoring System:

• Points are awarded based on each driver's resulting place (regardless of whether the car is running at the end of the race):

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

Bonus Points:

• 1 For Pole Position
• 1 For Leading The Most Laps Of The Race

Nation's Cup

• Top result per race counts towards Nation's Cup.

Pos	Country	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MIC	POC	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG	Pts
1	United States	1*	1*	2	1*	2*	2	2	1*	1*	1*	1	2	1*	2	1*	276
2	Brazil	5	3	1*	4	1	1*	1*	2	2	14	19	4	5	1*	5	200
3	Italy	6	22	30	3	4	4	4	9	4	2	4	1*	2	12	21	139
4	Netherlands	17	7	21	6	6	3	9	7	24	6	23	8	4	13	9	75
5	Ireland	12	9	15	21	25	11	22	25	16	5	24	9	27	9	18	25
6	Canada	10	20	11	11	11	19	25	11	13	16	10	13	10	17	15	18
7	Mexico	19	13	9	12	15	22	19	19	10	19	11	27		15	23	10
8	Belgium	20	23	20	17	9	20	12	26				11	11	21	17	9
9	Colombia					8	23	13	22	28	22	16	12	21	20	25	6
10	England		12			22		24									2
11	Australia						14										0
12	Switzerland	21		Wth	DNQ	DNQ	15										0
13	Finland	X	16	16		27						25					0
14	Scotland			19													0
Pos	Country	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MIC	POC	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG	Pts

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Chassis Constructor's Cup

Pos	Chassis	Pts
1	Penske PC-18/PC-17	283
2	Lola T8900/T8800/T8700	254
3	March 89CE/89P/88C/86C	149
Pos	Chassis	Pts

Engine Manufacturer's Cup

Pos	Engine	Pts
1	Chevrolet A	319
2	Cosworth	146
3	Porsche	141
4	Judd	138
5	Buick	16
6	Alfa Romeo	6

References

• "1989 CART PPG IndyCar World Series standings". race-database.com. http://www.race-database.com/cc/index.php/. Retrieved 2010-12-10. 

• Åberg, Andreas. "PPG Indy Car World Series 1989". Driver Database. http://www.driverdb.com/standings/5-1989/. Retrieved 2009-05-19. 

• "1989 PPG Indy Car World Series". Champ Car Stats. http://www.champcarstats.com/year/1989.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-19. 

• "Official Box Score: 73rd Indianapolis 500-Mile Race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway". Indianapolis Motor Speedway. http://www.indy500.com/stats/view/boxscore/year/1989/. Retrieved 2009-05-19. 

• "Standings after Laguna Seca". Champ Car World Series. http://www.champcar.ws/Results/Standings.asp?Year=1989. Retrieved 2009-05-19. 

See also

• 1989 Indianapolis 500
• 1989 American Racing Series season

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