1999 Indy Lights season


1999 Indy Lights season
PPG/Dayton Indy Lights Championship
Season
Races12
Start dateMarch 21
End dateOctober 30
Awards
Drivers' champion Oriol Servià

The 1999 CART PPG/Dayton Indy Lights Championship consisted of 12 races. Oriol Servià was the series champion despite not winning a race.[1]

Team and driver chart

The following drivers and teams competed in the series:

Team No. Drivers Round(s)
Brian Stewart Racing 4 Kenny Wilden[2] 7
5 David Pook All
10 Rodolfo Lavín All
Conquest Racing 11 Chris Menninga All
21 Felipe Giaffone All
40 Rolando Quintanilla 12
Dorricott Racing 30 Casey Mears All
31 Philipp Peter All
32 Oriol Servià All
Forsythe Championship Racing 1 Airton Daré All
6 Guy Smith All
Genoa Racing 61 Cory Witherill All
62 Oswaldo Negri Jr. 2
Johansson Motorsports 2 Ben Collins All
3 Scott Dixon All
Lucas Place Motorsports 7 Geoff Boss All
8 Andy Boss All
PacWest Lights 17 Tony Renna 4–8, 12
Boris Derichebourg 9–11
18 Didier André All
Team KOOL Green 27 Jonny Kane All
Team México Quaker Herdez 87 Mario Domínguez All
88 Derek Higgins All
89 Luis Díaz 11

Schedule

Rd. Date Track Location
1 March 21  O  Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead, Florida
2 April 18  R  Long Beach Street Circuit Long Beach, California
3 May 2  O  Nazareth Speedway Nazareth, Pennsylvania
4 June 6  O  Milwaukee Mile West Allis, Wisconsin
5 June 20  R  Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon
6 June 27  R  Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport Cleveland, Ohio
7 July 18  R  Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario
8 July 24  O  Michigan International Speedway Brooklyn, Michigan
9 August 8  R  The Raceway at Belle Isle Park Detroit, Michigan
10 August 22  O  Chicago Motor Speedway Cicero, Illinois
11 September 12  R  Laguna Seca Raceway Monterey, California
12 October 30  O  California Speedway Fontana, California

Race results

Round Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Race Winner
Driver Team
1 Homestead-Miami Speedway Mario Domínguez Mario Domínguez Mario Domínguez Mario Domínguez Team México Quaker Herdez
2 Long Beach Street Circuit Felipe Giaffone Felipe Giaffone Felipe Giaffone Philipp Peter Dorricott Racing
3 Nazareth Speedway Oriol Servià Casey Mears Airton Daré Airton Daré Forsythe Championship Racing
4 Milwaukee Mile Felipe Giaffone Tony Renna Derek Higgins Derek Higgins Team México Quaker Herdez
5 Portland International Raceway Oriol Servià Jonny Kane Philipp Peter Philipp Peter Dorricott Racing
6 Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport Didier André Derek Higgins Derek Higgins Derek Higgins Team México Quaker Herdez
7 Exhibition Place Geoff Boss Geoff Boss Geoff Boss Geoff Boss Lucas Place Motorsports
8 Michigan International Speedway Jonny Kane Rodolfo Lavín Philipp Peter Philipp Peter Dorricott Racing
9 The Raceway at Belle Isle Park Oriol Servià Felipe Giaffone Derek Higgins Derek Higgins Team México Quaker Herdez
10 Chicago Motor Speedway Scott Dixon Guy Smith Scott Dixon Scott Dixon Johansson Motorsports
11 Laguna Seca Raceway Guy Smith Didier André Didier André Didier André PacWest Lights
12 California Speedway Jonny Kane Casey Mears Didier André Jonny Kane Team KOOL Green

Race summaries

Homestead race

Held March 21 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Mario Domínguez won the pole.

Top Five Results

  1. Mario Domínguez
  2. Airton Daré
  3. Scott Dixon
  4. Andy Boss
  5. Casey Mears

Long Beach race

Held April 18 at Long Beach, California Street Course. Felipe Giaffone won the pole.

Top Five Results

  1. Philipp Peter
  2. Scott Dixon
  3. Geoff Boss
  4. Didier André
  5. Casey Mears

Nazareth race

Held May 2 at Nazareth Speedway. Oriol Servià won the pole.

Top Five Results

  1. Airton Daré
  2. Oriol Servià
  3. Casey Mears
  4. Scott Dixon
  5. Ben Collins

Milwaukee race

Held June 6 at The Milwaukee Mile. Felipe Giaffone won the pole.

Top Five Results

  1. Derek Higgins
  2. Casey Mears
  3. Tony Renna
  4. Felipe Giaffone
  5. Oriol Servià

Portland race

Held June 20 at Portland International Raceway. Oriol Servià won the pole.

Top Five Results

  1. Philipp Peter
  2. Oriol Servià
  3. Guy Smith
  4. Casey Mears
  5. Airton Daré

Cleveland race

Held June 27 at Burke Lakefront Airport. Didier André won the pole.

Top Five Results

  1. Derek Higgins
  2. Oriol Servià
  3. Felipe Giaffone
  4. Philipp Peter
  5. Airton Daré

Toronto race

Held July 18 at Exhibition Place. Geoff Boss won the pole.

Top Five Results

  1. Geoff Boss
  2. Oriol Servià
  3. Didier André
  4. Felipe Giaffone
  5. Jonny Kane

Michigan race

Held July 24 at Michigan International Speedway. Jonny Kane won the pole.

Top Five Results

  1. Philipp Peter
  2. Casey Mears
  3. Felipe Giaffone
  4. Mario Domínguez
  5. Oriol Servià

Detroit race

Held August 8 at Belle Isle Raceway. Oriol Servià won the pole.

Top Five Results

  1. Derek Higgins
  2. Oriol Servià
  3. Jonny Kane
  4. Felipe Giaffone
  5. Didier André

Chicago race

Held August 22 at The Chicago Motor Speedway. Scott Dixon won the pole.

Top Five Results

  1. Scott Dixon
  2. Guy Smith
  3. Casey Mears
  4. Oriol Servià
  5. Mario Domínguez

Laguna Seca race

Held September 12 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Guy Smith won the pole.

Top Five Results

  1. Didier André
  2. Scott Dixon
  3. Jonny Kane
  4. Guy Smith
  5. Casey Mears

Fontana race

Held October 30 at The California Speedway. Jonny Kane won the pole.

Top Five Results

  1. Jonny Kane
  2. Ben Collins
  3. Didier André
  4. Cory Witherill
  5. Mario Domínguez

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
 MIL
 POR
 CLE
 TOR
 MIC
 DET
 CHI
 LAG
 FON
 Points
1 Oriol Servià 6 12 2 5 2 2 2 5 2 4 7 14 130
2 Casey Mears 5 5 3 2 4 8 8 2 9 3 5 13 116
3 Philipp Peter 13 1 8 11 1* 4 7 1* 8 12 8 10 101
4 Jonny Kane 7 16 12 9 6 18 5 7 3 9 3 1 89
5 Scott Dixon 3 2 4 15 11 14 18 16 7 1* 2 16 88
6 Felipe Giaffone 17 10* 18 4 10 3 4 3 4 8 18 20 78
7 Derek Higgins DNS 19 11 1* 16 1* 12 11 1* 6 19 15 76
8 Didier André 14 4 16 13 17 17 3 12 5 13 1* 3* 74
9 Guy Smith 11 18 10 8 3 11 6 6 13 2 4 19 71
10 Airton Daré 2 17 1* 7 5 5 19 15 15 18 12 8 69
11 Mario Domínguez 1* 6 17 16 15 9 20 4 17 5 16 5 66
12 Geoff Boss 8 3 13 14 12 13 1 9 6 11 14 11 58
13 Ben Collins 10 11 5 18 8 6 16 18 18 7 15 2 50
14 Chris Menninga 9 8 6 12 7 10 10 13 19 10 6 7 47
15 Andy Boss 4 13 15 10 9 7 13 10 10 17 17 12 32
16 Tony Renna 3 14 19 14 Wth 6 22
17 Rodolfo Lavín 16 9 9 19 18 15 17 8 11 14 13 9 19
18 Cory Witherill 15 14 14 17 19 16 11 17 12 15 11 4 17
19 David Pook 12 15 7 6 13 12 15 14 14 16 20 17 16
20 Oswaldo Negri Jr. 7 6
21 Boris Derichebourg 16 DNS 9 4
22 Kenny Wilden 9 4
23 Luis Díaz 10 3
24 Rolando Quintanilla 18 0
Pos Driver HMS
 LBH
 NAZ
 MIL
 POR
 CLE
 TOR
 MIC
 DET
 CHI
 LAG
 FON
 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)
Not competing
In-line notation
Bold Pole position
(1 point)
Italics Ran fastest race lap
* Led most race laps
(1 point)
1 Qualifying cancelled
no bonus point awarded
  • Ties in points broken by number of wins, or best finishes.

References

  1. ^ "Standings".
  2. ^ "Dayton Indy Lights Long Beach notes". us.motorsport.com. April 12, 2000. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
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