2002 Indy Racing League

01 Jan 2002 Indy Racing League

Posted at 20:30h in IndyCar Series Seasons by GP Archivist

The 2002 Indy Racing League consisted of 15 races, held at 14 circuits across the United States of America. Sam Hornish Jr. won the Drivers’ Championship.

2002 Races

Round	Date	Event	Circuit	Track Type	Winner	Car/Engine	Avg. Speed
1	2 March 2002	Grand Prix of Miami	Homestead-Miami Speedway	Oval	Sam Hornish Jr.	Dallara/Chevrolet	140.325
2	17 March 2002	Bombardier ATV 200	Phoenix Raceway	Oval	Helio Castroneves	Dallara/Chevrolet	116.504
3	24 March 2002	Yamaha Indy 400	Auto Club Speedway	Oval	Sam Hornish Jr.	Dallara/Chevrolet	179.345
4	21 April 2002	Firestone Indy 225	Nazareth Speedway	Oval	Scott Sharp	Dallara/Chevrolet	93.789
5	26 May 2002	86th Indianapolis 500	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Oval	Helio Castroneves	Dallara/Chevrolet	166.499
6	8 June 2002	Boomtown 500	Texas Motor Speedway	Oval	Jeff Ward	G-Force/Chevrolet	164.984
7	16 June 2002	Radisson Indy 225	Pikes Peak International Raceway	Oval	Gil de Ferran	Dallara/Chevrolet	121.465
8	29 June 2002	SunTrust Indy Challenge	Richmond Raceway	Oval	Sam Hornish Jr.	Dallara/Chevrolet	99.124
9	7 July 2002	Ameristar Casino Indy 200	Kansas Speedway	Oval	Airton Dare	Dallara/Chevrolet	153.71
10	20 July 2002	Firestone Indy 200	Nashville Superspeedway	Oval	Alex Barron	Dallara/Chevrolet	127.997
11	28 July 2002	Michigan Indy 400	Michigan International Speedway	Oval	Tomas Scheckter	Dallara/Infiniti	179.044
12	11 August 2002	Belterra Casino Indy 300	Kentucky Speedway	Oval	Felipe Giaffone	G-Force/Chevrolet	149.024
13	25 August 2002	Gateway Indy 250	World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway	Oval	Gil de Ferran	Dallara/Chevrolet	143.711
14	8 September 2002	Delphi Indy 300	Chicagoland Speedway	Oval	Sam Hornish Jr.	Dallara/Chevrolet	146.319
15	15 September 2002	Chevy 500	Texas Motor Speedway	Oval	Sam Hornish Jr.	Dallara/Chevrolet	163.981

2002 Driver Standings

Pos.	Driver	MIA	PHX	FON	NAZ	IND	TEX	PIK	RICH	KAN	NAS	MIS	KEN	GAT	CHI	TEX	Points
1	Sam Hornish Jr.	52	37	52	13	5	12	35	50	40	37	26	40	30	52	50	531
2	Helio Castroneves	35	50	30	30	50	32	40	13	35	22	28	30	42	32	42	511
3	Gil de Ferran	40	40	32	37	20	14	52	42	30	40	30	9	50	7	0	443
4	Felipe Giaffone	26	11	28	40	35	30	32	35	32	26	35	52	9	28	13	432
5	Alex Barron	24	7	18	28	32	20	20	20	24	50	18	22	35	18	30	366
6	Scott Sharp	10	14	24	50	3	16	30	9	28	24	22	32	12	26	32	332
7	Al Unser Jr.	11	30	19	18	18	40	28	30	13	0	0	28	26	40	10	311
8	Buddy Lazier	8	26	26	7	15	24	15	12	26	18	17	35	15	35	26	305
9	Airton Dare	20	18	17	19	17	35	22	28	50	13	7	7	19	14	18	304
10	Eddie Cheever Jr.	5	15	10	26	30	11	24	16	14	28	8	19	20	30	24	280
11	Jeff Ward	32	12	20	11	22	50	10	24	18	19	5	14	17	9	5	268
12	Laurent Redon	15	16	35	15	8	15	26	15	8	14	19	10	8	5	20	229
13	Billy Boat	14	24	12	24	12	26	16	8	22	16	16	11	7	11	6	225
14	Tomas Scheckter	28	6	6	9	6	15	14	32	17	17	52	8	0	0	0	210
15	Richie Hearn	0	0	16	16	28	22	18	26	20	32	20	6	0	0	0	204
16	George Mack	17	10	14	12	13	9	17	10	12	15	10	13	14	16	2	184
17	Robbie Buhl	18	17	0	0	14	10	7	17	9	9	6	20	28	10	12	177
18	Sarah Fisher	0	0	0	32	6	0	0	14	16	8	24	24	10	8	19	161
19	Raul Boesel	0	0	0	0	9	17	0	0	19	30	15	17	24	19	8	158
20	Eliseo Salazar	30	32	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	11	16	16	12	14	157
21	Robby McGehee	16	9	13	17	0	0	13	22	17	0	0	0	18	0	17	142
22	Buddy Rice	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	40	18	32	22	28	140
23	Greg Ray	0	0	0	0	1	18	12	18	11	10	13	5	11	13	16	128
24	Tony Renna	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	32	26	6	15	22	121
25	Vitor Meira	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	22	24	35	96
26	Jaques Lazier	12	28	40	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	90
27	Shigeaki Hattori	0	5	4	20	10	28	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	78
28	Rick Treadway	6	22	8	14	1	7	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	11	76
29	Mark Dismore	0	0	0	0	1	0	19	19	10	12	12	0	0	0	0	73
30	Jon Herb	4	19	11	8	0	8	9	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	70
31	Anthony Lazzaro	22	13	0	22	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	70
32	Hideki Noda	7	20	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	6	3	54
33	John de Vries	13	8	7	6	0	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	53
34	Paul Tracy	0	0	0	0	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	40
35	Will Langhorne	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	17	7	36
36	Dan Wheldon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	15	35
37	Arie Luyendyk	0	0	0	0	16	0	0	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	30
38	Michael Andretti	0	0	0	0	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	26
39	Robby Gordon	0	0	0	0	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	24
40	Tyce Carlson	19	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	23
41	Jimmy Vasser	0	0	22	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	23
42	Kenny Brack	0	0	0	0	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	19
43	Max Papis	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	16
44	Dario Franchitti	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
45	Memo Gidley	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
46	Scott Harrington	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	9
47	Billy Roe	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
48	Cory Kruseman	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4
49	Jeret Schroeder	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
50	Tony Kanaan	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
51	Bruno Junqueira	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

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