Indy Racing League 1996

The 1996 IRL season was the first season of the US Indy Racing League . It began on January 27, 1996 in Orlando and ended on May 26, 1996 in Indianapolis . The championship title won Scott Sharp and Buzz Calkins , who ended the season tied.

Race results

date	route	winner	team	Pole position
January 27th	Orlando	Buzz Calkins	Bradley Motorsports	Buddy Lazier
March 24th	Phoenix	Aria Luyendyk	Byrd Leberle Treadway Racing	Aria Luyendyk
May 26	Indianapolis	Buddy Lazier	Hemelgarn Racing	Tony Stewart

Score

driver

Pl.	driver	Points
1.	Buzz Calkins	246
	Scott Sharp	246
3.	Robbie Buhl	240
4th	Richie Hearn	237
	Roberto Guerrero	237
6th	Mike Groff	228
7th	Aria Luyendyk	225
8th.	Tony Stewart	204
9.	Davey Hamilton	192
	Johnny O'Connell	192
11.	Michele Alboreto	189
12.	Lyn St. James	186

Pl.	driver	Points
13.	Stéphan Grégoire	165
14th	Buddy Lazier	159
15th	John paul jr.	153
16.	Eddie Cheever	147
17th	Johnny Parsons	141
18th	Scott Brayton	111
19th	Dave Kudrave	80
20th	Jim Guthrie	74
	Michel Jourdain junior	74
22nd	Fermín Vélez	60
23.	Eliseo Salazar	58
24.	Johnny Unser	56

Pl.	driver	Points
25th	Stan Wattles	44
26th	Davy Jones	33
27.	Paul Durant	32
28.	Alessandro Zampedri	31
29	Danny Ongais	28
30th	Hideshi Matsuda	27
31.	Racin Gardner	20th
	Scott Harrington	20th
33.	Mark Dismore	16
34.	Joe Gosek	13
35.	Brad Murphy	12
36.	Marco Greco	9