Arie Luyendyk
5 G Force/Aurora
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1996-97 season in review
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Arie Luyendyk survived a roller coaster 1996-97 season. He was the only repeat winner in the 10-race season, but finished in sixth place in the championship after early exits at Orlando, Phoenix, Pikes Peak, Charlotte and Las Vegas. The high point of the season came at Indianapolis, where the Flyin' Dutchman won from the pole position, his second Indy 500 win (1990). Luyendyk backed it up with a win at Texas in June, but not until he protested the original results to league officials and in victory lane, where Boat's car owner A.J. Foyt slapped him to the ground. From that point, Luyendyk had a good finish only at New Hampshire (3rd). Luyendyk returns to Treadway Racing in 1998 with new primary sponsorship from Sprint PCS and Radio Shack.
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Career
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Luyendyk began his racing career in the European Formula Vee Series in 1972. He won the Super Vee championship in 1984.
Luyendyk won the 1990 Indianapolis 500 and holds the all-time race record at 185.981 mph. It was the first of three Indy car victories before joining the IRL.
He set one- and four-lap records in 1992 Indy time trials. He earned his first pole position in an Indy car at Indianapolis in 1993 and finished second to Emerson Fittipaldi by 2.862 seconds.
He once again set one- and four-lap records at Indy in 1996, the last year turbochargers were allowed.
Courtesy SpeedNet, from the Indianapolis Star/News
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Driver Stats
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Team: Treadway Racing
Series: Indy Racing League
Car: #5 G Force / Aurora / Firestone
Sponsor: Sprint PCS/Radio Shack
Car Owner: Fred Treadway
Chief Mechanic: Skip Faul
Resides: Scottsdale, Ariz.
D.O.B: 9/21/53
Indy car victories:: 1996: Phoenix; 1997: Indianapolis, Texas.
(CART) 1990: Indianapolis; 1991: Phoenix, Nazareth
IRL points (standing): 996 - 225 (7th); 1996-97 - 223 (6th)
CART points (standing): 1984 - 5 (34th); 1985 - 33 (18th); 1986 - 29 (17th); 1987 - 98 (7th); 1988 - 31 (14th); 1989 - 75 (10th); 1990 - 90 (8th); 1991 - 134 (6th); 1992 - 0 (39th); 1993 - 90 (8th); 1994 - 34 (17th); 1995 - 6 (26th)
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