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Goodyear qualified for eleven straight Indianapolis 500 races from 1990 to 2000. After starting last (33rd) in the 1992 race he finished 2nd to Al Unser Jr. by 0.043 of a second. He should easily have won the 1995 race, but after leading forty-two laps, Goodyear mistakenly passed the pace car on a late restart and was penalised to fourteenth place after ignoring the black flags. Goodyear finished second again in 1997 after being passed by Arie Luyendyk on the backstraight 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 Champ Car 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 with Treadway Racing and in 1998 moved to Panther Racing , where he stayed for three seasons, just losing out for the series title in 1999 to Greg Ray . He retired from racing following a crash with Sarah Fisher in the 2001 Indianapolis 500 and became a commentator for ABC and ESPN 's coverage of the IRL with Paul Page , Todd Harris , of "World's Strongest Man" and extreme sports fame, and currently with Marty Reid and former NASCAR series champion Rusty Wallace . Scott Goodyear was inducteed into the Canadian Motorsport Hall Of Fame in 2002. IndyCar career results 3 wins, 0 championships Indy 500 results SEE ALSO List Of Canadians In Champ Car |
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