2000 Indy Racing League Season - Final Point Standings

Final Point Standings

For every race points were awarded to all starters: 50 points to the winner, 40 for runner up, 35 for third place, 32 for fourth place, 30 for fifth place, 28 for sixth place, 26 seventh place, 24 eighth place, 22 for ninth place, 20 for tenth place, winding down to 1 points for 29th place. Every lower placed driver also was awarded with 1 point. Additional points were awarded to the pole winner (3 points), the second best qualifier (2 points), the third best qualifier (1 point) and to the driver leading the most laps (2 point).

Place Name Country Team Chassis Engine Total Points
1 Buddy Lazier United States Hemelgarn Racing Riley & Scott Oldsmobile Aurora 290 40 50 8
Hemelgarn Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 40 26 4 40 50 32
2 Scott Goodyear Canada Panther Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 272 32 40 18 22 30 14 19 45 52
3 Eddie Cheever United States Team Cheever Riley & Scott Nissan Infiniti 257 35
Team Cheever Dallara Nissan Infiniti 20 19 30 22 50 9 32 40
4 Eliseo Salazar Chile A. J. Foyt Enterprises G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 210 30 32 12 36 13 28 22 7 30
5 Donnie Beechler United States Cahill Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 202 28 35 4 18 8 30 31 20 28
Mark Dismore United States Kelley Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 202 14 16 45 19 28 33 12 19 16
7 Scott Sharp United States Kelley Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 196 15 33 4 20 50 37 14 6 17
8 Robbie Buhl United States Dreyer & Reinbold Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 190 52 26 30 4
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing G-Force Nissan Infiniti 12 9 28 17 12
9 Al Unser, Jr. United States Galles Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 188 5 22 50 1 37 20 35 3 15
10 Billy Boat United States Team Pelfrey Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 181 22 28 26 7 12 24 12 35
A. J. Foyt Enterprises G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 15
11 Jeff Ward United States A. J. Foyt Enterprises G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 176 26 19 9 32 11 15 11 28 25
12 Robby McGehee United States Treadway Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 174 20 6 28 9 40 17 32 16 6
13 Greg Ray United States Team Menard Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 172 13 14 24 4 15 13 55 27 7
14 Stéphane Grégoire France Dick Simon Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 171 12 24 2 24 19 24 26 30 10
15 Buzz Calkins United States Bradley Motorsports Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 145 24 7 5 12 32 18 7 18 22
16 Airton Daré Brazil TeamXtreme Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 142 19 8 16 5 20 40 5 11 18
17 Jeret Schroeder United States Tri-Star Motorsports Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 136 11 18 32 16 9 26 6 4 14
18 Sarah Fisher United States Walker Racing Riley & Scott Oldsmobile Aurora 124 - 17 13
Walker Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 1 18 5 16 35 19
Tyce Carlson United States Hubbard-Immke Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 124 17 15 24 - 17 19 17 8 7
20 Jaques Lazier United States Truscelli Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 112 7 - 20 17 16 22 -
Mid America Motorsports Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 10
TeamXtreme Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 20
21 Sam Hornish, Jr. United States PDM Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 110 10 13 35 11 -
PDM Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 6 10 22 3
22 Shigeaki Hattori Japan Treadway-Vertex Cunningham Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 109 - - - - 24 13 22 24 26
23 Davey Hamilton United States Sinden Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 98 4
TeamXtreme Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 12 10 10 6 16 15 14
Mid America Motorsports Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 11
24 Jimmy Kite United States Blueprint Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 79 - 4 14 1 14 6 18 13 9
25 Juan Pablo Montoya Colombia Ganassi Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 54 - - - 54 - - - - -
26 Doug Didero Canada Mid America Motorsports Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 43 16 5 11 - 3 8 - - -
27 Ronnie Johncox United States Byrd-McCormack Motorsports G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 33 - 16 17 - - - - - -
J. J. Yeley United States Byrd-McCormack Motorsports G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 33 - - - - - - 13 15 5
29 Robby Gordon United States Team Menard Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 28 - - - 28 - - - - -
Jason Leffler United States Treadway-Vertex Cunningham Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 28 - - 15
Treadway Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 13 - - - - -
31 Niclas Jönsson Sweden Blueprint Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 27 18
Nienhouse Motorsports G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 9 - - - - - - -
32 Jimmy Vasser United States Ganassi Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 26 - - - 26 - - - - -
33 Stevie Reeves United States Logan Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 25 - - - - - - 8 9 8
34 Robby Unser United States Tri-Star Motorsports Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 19 6 - - -
Byrd-McCormack Motorsports Riley & Scott Oldsmobile Aurora 4 9 - - -
35 Scott Harrington United States Nienhouse Motorsports Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 17 - - 7 - - -
Mid America Motorsports Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 10 - -
36 Zak Morioka Brazil Tri-Star Motorsports Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 15 - - - - - - - - 15
37 Raul Boesel Brazil Treadway-Vertex Cunningham Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 14 - - - 14 - - - - -
38 Steve Knapp United States Dreyer & Reinbold Racing G-Force Nissan Infiniti 11 - - - 11 - - - - -
39 Bobby Regester United States Truscelli Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 10 - 10 - - - - - - -
40 John Hollansworth, Jr. United States TeamXtreme Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 9 9 - - - - - - - -
41 Jon Herb United States Byrd-McCormack Motorsports G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 8 8 - - - - - - - -
Johnny Unser United States Indy Regency Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 8 - - - 8 - - - - -
43 Stan Wattles United States Hemelgarn Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 7 - - - 7 - - - - -
Roberto Guerrero Colombia Team Coulson G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 7 - - - - - - - 7 -
45 Jack Miller United States Tri-Star Motorsports Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 6 - - 6 - - - - - -
46 Billy Roe United States Logan Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 5 - - - - 5 - - - -
47 Richie Hearn United States Pagan Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 3 - - - 3 - - - - -
48 Andy Hillenburg United States Fast Track Racing Dallara Oldsmobile Aurora 2 - - - 2 - - - - -
49 Lyn St. James United States Dick Simon Racing G-Force Oldsmobile Aurora 1 - - - 1 - - - - -

No points (did not qualify):

  • Dan Drinan
  • Memo Gidley
  • Hideshi Matsuda
  • Davy Jones

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