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IRL Driver Point Standings after Samsonite 200

30 June 1997

INDY RACING LEAGUE
1996-97 IRL Season
Driver Point Standings
(after Samsonite 200 - Pikes Peak International Raceway - June 29)

	             No. of   Running   Highest  Laps  Laps    Total
Pos Driver           Starts  at Finish  Finish   Led   Comp    Points**
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1   Davey Hamilton	 7	7	   3	   4	1337	207
2   Tony Stewart	 7	3	   1	 738	1211	202
3   Buzz Calkins	 7	4	   2	  14	1214	183
4   Arie Luyendyk	 7	3	   1	 118	 955	167
5   Marco Greco	         7	5	   4	   0	1089	162
6   Eddie Cheever, Jr.	 7	4	   1	   9	 952	160
7   Roberto Guerrero	 7	4	   4	   0	 955	153
8   Mike Groff	         5	5	   2	   0	 930	148
9   Buddy Lazier	 7	3	   4	  64	 836	147
10  Scott Goodyear	 5	4	   2	   3	 808	142
11  Jim Guthrie (R)	 6	3	   1	  80	 655	121
12  Stephan Gregoire	 6	3	   2	   5	 620	119
13  Scott Sharp	         5	2	   1	  22	 582	117
14  Eliseo Salazar	 5	4	   7	   3	 851	116
15  Robbie Buhl	         5	2	   8	  16	 612	103
16  Affonso Giaffone (R) 5	2	   9	  13	 582	 91
17  Mark Dismore	 5	2	  11	   0	 611	 88
18  John Paul, Jr.	 4	3	   9	  22	 585	 88
19  Fermin Velez (R)	 4	2	   9	   0	 437	 82
20  Dr. Jack Miller (R)	 5	0	  15	   0	 414	 80
21  Billy Boat (R)	 3	2	   2	  10	 489	 77
22  Vincenzo Sospiri (R) 3	3	   6	   0	 567	 73
23  Tyce Carlson (R)	 4	2	  11	   0	 580	 73
24  Robbie Groff (R)	 3	1	   9	   3	 563	 71
25  Johnny Unser	 4	1	  10	   0	 451	 69
26  Kenny Brack (R)	 4	0	  11	  24	 442	 64
27  Michele Alboreto	 2	2	   3	   0	 397	 62
28  Richie Hearn	 2	1	   1	  96	 366	 59
29  Greg Ray (R)	 3	1	   8	   0	 360	 55
30  Jeff Ward (R)	 2 	1	   3	  49	 263	 51
31  Sam Schmidt (R)	 3	0	  10	   0	 212	 38
32  Jeret Schroeder (R)	 2	0	  14	   0	 144	 37
33  Stan Wattles (R)	 2	0	  16	   0	 282	 36
34  Michel Jourdain, Jr. 1	1	   2	   0	 200	 33
35  Billy Roe (R)	 2	0	  15	   0	 192	 33
36  Robby Gordon 	 2	0	  14	  60	 198	 27
37  Brad Murphey (R)	 2	0	  18	   0	 105	 25
38  Alessandro Zampedri	 2	1	  12	   0	 201	 24
39  Johnny O'Connell	 1	0	  12	   3	 183	 23
40  Danny Ongais	 1	0	  13	   0	  94	 22
41  Lyn St. James	 1	0	  13	   0	 186	 22
42  Steve Kinser (R)	 1	0	  14	   0	 185	 21
43  Dennis Vitolo	 1	1	  15	   0	 173	 20
44  David Kudrave	 1	0	  17	   0	 118	 18
45  J.C. Carbonell (R)	 1	0	  19	   0	 112	 16
46  Jimmy Kite (R)	 1	0	  20	   0 	  39	 15
47  Paul Durant (R)	 1	0	  21	   0	 111	 14
48  Joe Gosek (R)	 1	0	  21	   0 	  30	 14
49  Allen May (R)	 1	0	  22	   0  	  36	 13
50  Johnny Parsons	 1	0	  28	   0	   7	  7
51  Claude Bourbonnais 	 1	0	  30	   0	   9	  5 

**Standings Could Change Pending Appeal