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1989 CART PPG Indy Car World Series

Sports season

Emerson Fittipaldi The 1989 CART PPG Indy Car World Series season was the 11th national championship season of American open wheel racing sanctioned by CART. The season consisted of 15 races, and one non-points exhibition event. Emerson Fittipaldi was the national champion, and the rookie of the year was Bernard Jourdain. Fittipaldi became the second driver after Mario Andretti to win the Formula One World Championship and the CART championship.

The 1989 Indianapolis 500 was sanctioned by USAC, but counted towards the CART points championship. Emerson Fittipaldi won the Indy 500, and would later become the first driver since Bobby Rahal in 1986 to win Indy and the CART championship in the same season.

Emerson Fittipaldi won a total of five races, four pole positions, and had a total of eight podium finishes en route to the championship. Rick Mears won three races, and had a total of 14 top ten finishes, more consistent than Fittipaldi. The championship battle came down to those two drivers. In the second-to-last race of the season at Nazareth, Fittipaldi and Mears finished 1st-2nd. Fittipaldi effectively clinched the championship by virtue of a now 22-point lead over Mears. If Mears were to win the season finale at Laguna Seca, win the pole, and lead the most laps, he could tie Fittipaldi in points if Fittipaldi finished 13th or worse. However, Fittipaldi held the tiebreaker with 5 wins versus Mears with 3. Mears did all three at Laguna Seca (won the pole, won the race and led the most laps), but the tiebreaker scenario was moot as Fittipaldi managed a 5th place in the race. It was Mears' first road course victory since Riverside in 1982, and the first since he suffered serious leg injuries in 1984. It was also the last road course win of his career.

At Mid-Ohio, Teo Fabi scored the first and only win of the Porsche Indy Car team. Fabi had eleven top tens, and finished 4th in points. Cosworth unveiled a new engine, the "short-stroke" DFS to some fanfare, but little success. Bobby Rahal won one race in 1989 with the Cosworth DFS in July at the Meadowlands. It would stand as the only race victory for the DFS powerplant.

Drivers and constructors

The following teams and drivers competed for the 1989 Indy Car World Series. All entries utilized Goodyear tires.

Team	Chassis	Engine	Car #	Drivers	Rounds
United States Newman/Haas Racing	Lola	Chevrolet	5	US Mario Andretti	All
6	US Michael Andretti	All
United States Patrick Racing	Penske	Chevrolet	20	Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi	All
United States Galles Racing	Lola	Chevrolet	2	US Al Unser Jr.	All
United States Team Penske	Penske	Chevrolet	1	US Danny Sullivan	All except 6-7
Australia Geoff Brabham	6
US Al Unser	7
4	US Rick Mears	All
25	US Al Unser	3, 10-11
United States Porsche North America	March	Porsche	8	Italy Teo Fabi	All
United States Truesports	Lola	Judd	3	US Scott Pruett	All
United States Kraco Racing	Lola	Cosworth	18	US Bobby Rahal	All
United States Dick Simon Racing	Lola	Cosworth/Buick	7/9	Netherlands Arie Luyendyk	All
22	US Scott Brayton	All
28	US Randy Lewis	All except 14
17	US Joe Sposato	15
United States Doug Shierson Racing	Lola	Judd	30	Brazil Raul Boesel	All
United States Raynor Racing	Lola	Judd	10	Ireland Derek Daly	All
United States Machinists Union Racing	March	Cosworth	11	US Kevin Cogan	All except 14
US Johnny Rutherford	14
Lola	29/24	US Pancho Carter	All
United States Protofab Racing	Lola	Cosworth	15	UK James Weaver	2, 5, 7
65	CAN John Jones	All except 14
United States A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Lola	Cosworth	14	US A. J. Foyt	All except 7 and 15
US Rocky Moran	15
March	29	US Rich Vogler	3
United States Andale Racing	Lola	Cosworth	69	Mexico Bernard Jourdain	All except 13
Italy Euromotorsport	Lola	Cosworth	50/16	Switzerland Jean-Pierre Frey	1, 4-6
50	US Davy Jones	3
US Scott Atchison	6-8
Finland Tero Palmroth	11
Italy Guido Daccò	10, 12-15
United States Alex Morales Motorsports	March	Alfa Romeo	21	Colombia Roberto Guerrero	5-15
United States Arciero Racing	Penske	Cosworth	12	Belgium Didier Theys	1-4
Italy Fabrizio Barbazza	5-9, 12-13, 15
US Rich Vogler	10
United States Hemelgarn Racing	Lola	Judd/Buick	71	Canada Ludwig Heimrath Jr.	1-4, 9-10, 12-15
Finland Tero Palmroth	5
71/91	Belgium Didier Theys	5-8
91	US Gordon Johncock	3, 10-11
Canada Scott Goodyear	9, 13
US Robby Unser	15
81	US Bill Vukovich III	3
United States Vince Granatelli Racing	Lola/March	Buick/Cosworth	9	Belgium Didier Theys	12-15
9/70	US John Andretti	3, 9-11, 14-15
9/7	US Tom Sneva	1-8
United States Bayside Motorsports	Lola	Cosworth	86	USA Dominic Dobson	1-3, 5-6, 8-9, 15
United States Dale Coyne Racing	Lola	Cosworth	19	Italy Guido Daccò	1-8
US Dale Coyne	11
Italy Fulvio Ballabio	12-13
US Ken Johnson	15
US John Paul Jr.	10
United States ATEC Environmental	Lola	Cosworth	96	Italy Guido Daccò	9
United States Bernstein Racing	Lola	Buick	15	UK Jim Crawford	3
United States Saleen	March	Cosworth	59	US Steve Saleen	2-3, 5, 7, 9, 12-13, 15
United States Gohr Racing	Lola/March	Cosworth	56	US Jeff Wood	7-10, 12-15
Finland Tero Palmroth	2-3
United States Bettenhausen Motorsports	Lola	Cosworth	16	USA Jon Beekhuis	9, 13, 15
US Steve Chassey	8, 10
US Michael Greenfield	11
US Dennis Vitolo	5, 12
15/16	US John Paul Jr.	7-8
27	Italy Fulvio Ballabio	2
US Tony Bettenhausen Jr.	11
United States Mann Motorsports	Lola	Buick	99	US Gary Bettenhausen	3
96	US John Paul Jr.	5, 15
US Mark Dismore	12
US Stoops Freightliner	Lola	Cosworth	17	US Johnny Rutherford	10-11
US Steve Butler	3
US U.S. Engineering	Lola	Cosworth	44	US Scott Harrington	3, 13, 15
US Phil Krueger	10
US Team Lazier	March	Cosworth	35	US Buddy Lazier	3
United States Curb Racing	March	Cosworth	33	US Rocky Moran	3

Schedule

Since Miami was dropped from the schedule the season finale and the Marlboro Challenge was moved to Laguna Seca. A race at Fuji Speedway in Japan was originally scheduled for March 26, but was eventually cancelled.

Icon	Legend
	Oval/Speedway
	Road course
	Street circuit
NC	Non-championship race

Rd	Date	Race Name	Track
April 9	Checker Autoworks 200	Phoenix International Raceway	Phoenix, Arizona
April 16	Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach	Long Beach Street Circuit	Long Beach, California
May 28	Indianapolis 500*	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana
June 4	Miller High Life 200	Milwaukee Mile	West Allis, Wisconsin
June 18	Valvoline Detroit Grand Prix	Streets of Detroit	Detroit, Michigan
June 25	Budweiser/G.I. Joe's 200	Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
July 2	Budweiser Cleveland Grand Prix	Burke Lakefront Airport	Cleveland, Ohio
July 16	Marlboro Grand Prix**	Meadowlands Street Circuit	East Rutherford, New Jersey
July 23	Molson Indy Toronto	Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario
August 6	Marlboro 500	Michigan International Speedway	Brooklyn, Michigan
August 20	Quaker State 500	Pocono International Raceway	Long Pond, Pennsylvania
September 3	Red Roof Inns 200	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
September 10	Texaco/Havoline 200	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
September 24	Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix	Pennsylvania International Raceway	Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
October 14	Marlboro Challenge	Laguna Seca Raceway	Monterey, California
October 15	Toyota Monterey Grand Prix	Laguna Seca Raceway	Monterey, California

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

** Meadowlands was supposed to run for 183 miles (295 kilometers) but was shortened due to rain.

Results

Rnd	Race Name	Pole position	Winning driver	Winning team
Checker Autoworks 200	US Rick Mears	US Rick Mears	Team Penske	1:35:09
Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach	US Al Unser Jr.	US Al Unser Jr.	Galles Racing	1:51:19
[Indianapolis 500](1989-indianapolis-500)	US Rick Mears	Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi	Patrick Racing	2:59:01
Miller High Life 200	US Rick Mears	US Rick Mears	Team Penske	1:32:11
Valvoline Detroit Grand Prix	US Michael Andretti	Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi	Patrick Racing	2:02:11
Budweiser/G. I. Joe's 200	Italy Teo Fabi	Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi	Patrick Racing	1:55:20
Budweiser Cleveland Grand Prix	US Michael Andretti	Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi	Patrick Racing	1:32:56
Marlboro Grand Prix	Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi	US Bobby Rahal	Kraco Racing	2:09:20
Molson Indy Toronto	Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi	US Michael Andretti	Newman/Haas Racing	2:01:00
[Marlboro 500](1989-marlboro-500)	Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi	US Michael Andretti	Newman/Haas Racing	3:07:15
[Pocono 500](1989-pocono-500)	Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi	US Danny Sullivan	Team Penske	2:55:43
Red Roof Inns 200	Italy Teo Fabi	Italy Teo Fabi	Porsche North America	1:54:46
Texaco/Havoline 200	US Danny Sullivan	US Danny Sullivan	Team Penske	1:37:43
Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix	US Rick Mears	Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi	Patrick Racing	1:29:02
Marlboro Challenge	Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi	US Al Unser Jr.	Galles Racing	0:56:37
Champion Spark Plug 300K	US Rick Mears	US Rick Mears	Team Penske	1:58:29

Final driver standings

Pos	Driver	PHX
LBH
[INDY](1989-indianapolis-500)
MIL
DET
POR
CLE
MEA
TOR
MIS
POC
MOH
ROA
NAZ
MAR	LAG
Pts	1	196	2	186	3	150	4	141	5	136	6	110	7	107	8	101	9	88	10	75	11	68	12	25	13	18	14	18	15	17	16	14	17	14	18	10	19	10	20	10	21	9	22	6	23	6	24	6	25	5	26	4	27	3	28	3	29	3	30	2	31	1	32	1	33	1	34	1	35	0	36	0	37	0	38	0	39	0	40	0	41	0	42	0	43	0	44	0	45	0	46	0	47	0	48	0	49	0	50	0	51	0	52	0	53	0	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Pos	Driver	PHX	LBH	[INDY](1989-indianapolis-500)	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MIS	POC	MOH	ROA	NAZ	MAR	LAG	Pts
Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi	5	3	1*	16	1	1*	1*	2	2	14	19	4	5	1*	8	5
US Rick Mears	1*	5	23	1*	5	8	5	4	5	7	2*	6	3	2	9	1*
US Michael Andretti	4	2	17	2	13*	6	18	18*	1	1*	3	3	6*	5	7	7
Italy Teo Fabi	6	27	30	3	4	4	4	9	4	2	4	1*	2	16	4	19
US Al Unser Jr.	2	1*	2	8	21	10	7	5	20	4	9	2	20	4	1*	3
US Mario Andretti	8	18	4	7	3	25	2	20	26	3	5	7	7	8	5	2
US Danny Sullivan	3	8	28	10	24			8	3*	23	1	5	1	3	2	14
USA Scott Pruett	11	DNS	10	5	2	5	6	3	6	17	8	19	8	6	6	4
US Bobby Rahal	18	4	26	13	18	2	3	1	19	9	6	22	28	7	3	6
Netherlands Arie Luyendyk	17	7	21	6	6	3	9	7	24	6	23	8	4	13	10	9
Brazil Raul Boesel	14	6	3	4	28	7	8	6	7	20	20	23	9	11		10
Ireland Derek Daly	12	9	15	21	25	11	22	25	16	5	24	9	27	9		18
US Pancho Carter	7	17	22	9	10	9	14	13	27	26	12	28	19	18		24
US Kevin Cogan	10	26	32	19	17	24	11	12	9	25	22	10	18			8
US Scott Brayton	15	12	6	18	DNQ	13	28	10	14	11	14	15	13	10		20
US Al Unser			24				10			8	7
CAN John Jones	16	20	11	11	11	19	25	11	18	16	10	13	10			22
US A. J. Foyt	22	25	5	20	26	DNS		23	17	18	21	21	22	14
USA Dominic Dobson	23	19	18		7	18		17	11							11
	19	13	9	12	15	22	19	19	10	19	11	27		15		23
Belgium Didier Theys	20	23	20	17	9	20	12	26				11	11	21		17
US Davy Jones			7
Colombia Roberto Guerrero					8	23	13	22	28	22	16	12	21	20		25
Italy Fabrizio Barbazza					20	21	26	24	8			20	12			21
US Rich Vogler			8							28
CAN Ludwig Heimrath Jr.	9	24	13	DNS					22	DNQ		25	17	17		DNQ
US Johnny Rutherford			DNQ							10	13			DNS
US Tom Sneva	DNS	10	27	22	23	26	20	27
Italy Guido Daccò	24	22	DNQ	14	12	12	21	DNQ	21	13		26	26	12		26
UK James Weaver		11			22		24
US Steve Saleen		14	DNQ		14		17		12			14	25			13
US Jeff Wood							15	15	DNQ	12		16	15	DNQ		DNQ
US John Andretti			25						25	24	17			19		12
US Bill Vukovich III			12
US Randy Lewis	13	15	29	15	16	16	23	16	15	27	18	17	14			16
USA Jon Beekhuis									13				24			15
US Scott Atchison						17	27	14
US Rocky Moran			14													28
Australia Geoff Brabham			Wth			14
US Gordon Johncock			31							21	15
Switzerland Jean-Pierre Frey	21		Wth	DNQ	DNQ	15
US Phil Krueger			DNQ							15
Finland Tero Palmroth		16	16		27						25
US John Paul Jr.			DNQ		19		16	21		DNQ						DNQ
US Scott Harrington			DNQ										16			DNQ
Italy Fulvio Ballabio		21										18	DNQ
UK Jim Crawford			19
Canada Scott Goodyear									23				23
US Mark Dismore												24
US Tony Bettenhausen Jr.			DNQ								26
US Dale Coyne			DNQ								27
US Ken Johnson																27
US Steve Chassey			DNQ					28		29
US Gary Bettenhausen			33
US Tom Bigelow			DNQ
US Steve Butler			DNQ
US Dick Ferguson			DNQ
US Stan Fox			DNQ
US Michael Greenfield			DNQ								Wth
US Andy Hillenburg			Wth
US Buddy Lazier			DNQ													DNQ
US Bobby Olivero			DNQ
US Johnny Parsons			DNQ
US Joe Sposato																DNQ
US Robby Unser																DNQ
US Dennis Vitolo					DNQ							DNQ
US Kevin Whitesides			DNQ

Color	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	4th-6th place
Light Blue	7th-12th place
Dark Blue	Finished
(Outside Top 12)
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

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Nations' Cup

Top result per race counts towards Nations' Cup.

Pos	Country	PHX US	LBH US	[INDY](1989-indianapolis-500) US	MIL US	DET US	POR US	CLE US	MEA US	TOR Canada	MIS US	POC US	MOH US	ROA US	NAZ US
USA United States	1*	1*	2	1*	2*	2	2	1*	1*	1*	1	2	1*	2	1*
Brazil Brazil	5	3	1*	4	1	1*	1*	2	2	14	19	4	5	1*	5
Italy Italy	6	22	30	3	4	4	4	9	4	2	4	1*	2	12	21
Netherlands Netherlands	17	7	21	6	6	3	9	7	24	6	23	8	4	13	9
Ireland Ireland	12	9	15	21	25	11	22	25	16	5	24	9	27	9	18
Canada Canada	10	20	11	11	11	19	25	11	13	16	10	13	10	17	15
Mexico Mexico	19	13	9	12	15	22	19	19	10	19	11	27		15	23
Belgium Belgium	20	23	20	17	9	20	12	26				11	11	21	17
Colombia Colombia					8	23	13	22	28	22	16	12	21	20	25
England England		11			22		24
Australia Australia						14
Switzerland Switzerland	21		Wth	DNQ	DNQ	15
Finland Finland		16	16		27						25
Scotland Scotland			19

[[Chassis]] Constructors' Cup

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

[[Engine]] Manufacturers' Cup

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

References

Citations

References

(1988-11-05). "Article clipped from The Indianapolis Star". The Indianapolis Star.
(2014-07-07). "FISA v CART".

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