1996 Indy Racing League Season - Final Driver Standings

Final Driver Standings

Pos Driver WDW
 PHX
 INDY
 Pts
1 Buzz Calkins 1* 6 17 246
Scott Sharp 11 2 10 246
3 Robbie Buhl 3 13 9 240
4 Richie Hearn 19 4 3 237
Roberto Guerrero 5 16 5* 237
6 Mike Groff 6 3 20 228
7 Arie Luyendyk 14 1* 16 225
8 Tony Stewart 2 11 24 204
9 Johnny O'Connell 7 5 29 192
Davey Hamilton 12 17 12 192
11 Michele Alboreto 4 8 30 189
12 Lyn St. James 8 21 14 186
13 Stéphan Grégoire 16 7 27 165
14 Buddy Lazier 17 DNS 1 159
15 John Paul, Jr. 9 14 31 153
16 Eddie Cheever 10 DNS 11 147
17 Johnny Parsons 18 12 28 141
18 Scott Brayton 15 18 DNS 111
19 David Kudrave 20 10 DNQ 80
20 Michel Jourdain, Jr. 20 13 74
Jim Guthrie 15 18 74
22 Fermín Vélez 19 21 60
23 Eliseo Salazar DNS 6 58
24 Johnny Unser 9 33 56
25 Stan Wattles 13 DNS 44
26 Davy Jones 2 33
27 Paul Durant 22 32 32
28 Alessandro Zampedri 4 31
29 Danny Ongais 7 28
30 Hideshi Matsuda 8 27
31 Scott Harrington 15 20
Racin Gardner DNQ 25 20
33 Mark Dismore 19 16
34 Joe Gosek 22 13
35 Brad Murphey 23 12
36 Marco Greco 26 9
— Justin Bell DNQ 0
— Billy Boat DNQ 0
— Butch Brickell DNQ DNQ 0
— Jim Buick DNQ 0
— Tyce Carlson DNQ 0
— Rick DeLorto DNQ 0
— Dan Drinan DNQ DNQ 0
— Andy Michner DNQ 0
— Bill Tempero DNQ 0
— Randy Tolsma DNQ 0
— Rob Wilson DNQ 0
Pos Driver WDW
 PHX
 INDY
 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
(Ret)
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Brown Withdrawn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
Italics Ran fastest race lap
* Led most race laps
Pts The number of points awarded per race
would be multiplied by the number of events
the driver had participated in.

In every race, points are awarded to drivers on the following basis:

Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
Points 35 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
  • Ties in points not broken by number of wins, etc.
  • No additional points to the pole winner or the driver leading the most laps were awarded.

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