| 1994 IndyCar season | |
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| PPG Indy Car World Series | |
| Season | |
| Races | 16 |
| Start date | March 20 |
| End date | October 9 |
| Awards | |
| Drivers' champion | |
| Constructors' Cup | |
| Manufacturers' Cup | |
| Nations' Cup | |
| Rookie of the Year | |
| Indianapolis 500 winner | |
| Chronology | |
| Previous season | Next season |
| 1993 | 1995 |
The 1994 IndyCar season, the sixteenth in the CART era of U.S. open-wheel racing, comprised 16 races, beginning in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia on March 20 and concluding in Monterey, California on October 9. The PPG Indy Car World Series Drivers' Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Al Unser, Jr. Rookie of the Year was Jacques Villeneuve. The 78th Indianapolis 500 was sanctioned by the USAC, but counted in the CART points standings.
The 1994 season was memorable for four main reasons: the dominance of Team Penske's PC-23 chassis, the retirement of the great Mario Andretti, the return of Michael Andretti after his unsuccessful season in Formula One, and the rise of young Canadian Jacques Villeneuve.
The following teams and drivers competed in the 1994 Indy Car World Series season. All teams used Goodyear tyres; Firestone would return one year later after a hiatus lasting for two decades.
| Team | Chassis | Engine(s) | No(s) | Drivers | Sponsors | Notes/Other |
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| Newman-Haas Racing | Lola T9400 | Ford XB | 1 | Texaco-Havoline Kmart |
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| 6 | Texaco-Havoline Kmart |
Retired after the season | ||||
| Marlboro Team Penske | Penske PC-23 | Ilmor D Mercedes-Benz 500I |
2 | Marlboro | The 209 cid Mercedes-Benz 500I was used at Indianapolis only | |
| 3 | Marlboro | |||||
| 31 | Marlboro | |||||
| Rahal-Hogan Racing | Lola T9400 Lola T9300 Penske PC-22 |
Honda Ilmor D Ilmor C |
4 | Miller Genuine Draft | Used the Penske/Ilmor combination at Indy after struggles with the Honda engine | |
| 10 | Motorola | Used the Penske/Ilmor combination at Indy after struggles with the Honda engine | ||||
| Dick Simon Racing | Lola T9400 Lola T9300 |
Ford XB | 5 | Duracell | ||
| 22 | Panasonic Duskin |
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| 79 | Unsponsored | Indy 500 only | ||||
| 90 | J. C. Penney | Indy 500 only | ||||
| 99 | Unsponsored | Indy 500 only | ||||
| Galles Racing | Reynard 94I | Ilmor D | 7 | Tecate Quaker State |
First full season | |
| Target Chip Ganassi Racing | Reynard 94I | Ford XB | 8 | Target | ||
| 88 | Hollywood | First full season | ||||
| Walker Racing | Lola T9400 Lola T9300 |
Ford XB | 9 | Valvoline | ||
| 15 | Craftsman | |||||
| 24 | Service Merchandise | |||||
| A.J. Foyt Enterprises | Lola T9400 Lola T9300 Lola T9200 |
Ford XB | 14 | Copenhagen | Driver Rotation Jones: Surfers Paradise through Indianapolis Herta: replaced Jones in mid-May and was injured at Toronto Cheever: Michigan through Laguna Seca |
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| 33 | Bryant[disambiguation needed |
Indy 500 only | ||||
| Jim Hall/VDS Racing | Reynard 94I | Ilmor D | 11 | Pennzoil | ||
| Bettenhausen Motorsports | Penske PC-22 | Ilmor D Ilmor C |
16 | Alumax Aluminum | ||
| 61 | Unsponsored | Indy 500 only (DNQ) | ||||
| 76 | Split Cycle Condor |
Driver Rotation Brabham: Surfers Paradise Groff: Long Beach and Portland Bettenhausen Indy 500 (WD) |
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| King Racing | Lola T9400 Lola T9300 |
Ford XB | 40 | Budweiser | ||
| 60 | Budweiser | Cleveland and Toronto only | ||||
| Hayhoe Racing | Reynard 94I | Ford XB | 18 | Conseco STP |
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| Team Menard (Indy 500 only) | Lola T9300 | Buick | 27 | Quaker State | ||
| 51 | Glidden Menards |
DNQ | ||||
| 59 | Glidden | Brabham DNQ | ||||
| Euromotorsport | Lola T9300 Lola T9200 |
Ilmor C Ilmor A |
50 | Agip Dinemo Heroflon |
Driver Rotation Zampedri: Australia through Indy Wood: remainder of the season barring Detroit, Vancouver, and Road America Lavaggi: Detroit only (DNQ) Freon: Vancouver and Road America |
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| 55 | Agip Hawaiian Tropic |
Driver Rotation: Kudrave: Surfers Paradise (DNQ) Andretti: Phoenix Zampedri: Long Beach |
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| ProFormance Motorsports | Lola T9300 | Ilmor C | 45 | Unsponsored | Phoenix and Indy only | |
| Payton/Coyne Racing | Lola T9300 Lola T9200 |
Ford XB Ilmor A |
19 | Mi-Jack | Driver Rotation Buhl: Australia and Long Beach Till: Phoenix and Indy Unser: Milwaukee (DNQ) and New Hampshire Zampedri: remainder of the season barring New Hampshire and Mid-Ohio Baldi: replaced Zampedri at Mid-Ohio only |
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| 39 | Agfa | Driver Rotation Montermini: Australia (WD) Unser: Phoenix and Long Beach (DNQ) Bentley: remainder of the season |
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| Arciero Racing | Lola T9400 | Ford XB | 25 | Unsponsored | ||
| Indy Regency Racing | Lola T9400 | Ilmor D | 28 | Eurosport Boost Monaco |
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| 29 | Unsponsored | Laguna Seca only | ||||
| PacWest Racing | Lola T9400 | Ford XB | 17 | Unsponsored | Bank of America sponsored both cars at Laguna Seca after no funding all season | |
| 71 | Unsponsored | Bank of America sponsored both cars at Laguna Seca after no funding all season | ||||
| Leader Card Racing | Lola T9300 | Ilmor C | 23 | Financial World Magazine | Lavaggi drove at Cleveland and Road America, and DNQ at Laguna Seca | |
| Hemelgarn Racing | Reynard Lola T9100 |
Ford XB | 91 95 |
Delta Faucets | Indy 500 only (failed to qualify Car #95) | |
| Fledging teams (did not compete in 1993), Indy 500-only entries, and other one-offs | ||||||
| Team | Chassis | Engines | No(s) | Drivers | Sponsors | Notes/Other |
| Forsythe/Green Racing | Reynard 94I | Ford XB | 12 | Players Limited | Rookie of the Year | |
| Project Indy | Lola T9300 | Ford XB | 64 | Marcelo Group/No Touch | Driver Rotation Freon: Long Beach and Portland Theys: Indy 500; DNQ Danner: Detroit, Cleveland (WD), and Road America Schiattarella: Toronto, Mid-Ohio, and Vancouver (WD) Montermini: Laguna Seca only |
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| Vitolo Racing | Lola T9300 | Ford XB | 79 | Hooligan's | Indy 500 only | |
| Pagan Racing | Lola T9200 | Buick | 21 | Pagan Racing | Indy 500 only | |
| Arizona Motorsport | Lola T9400 | Ford XB | 44 | Unsponsored | Indy 500 only; all three drivers DNQ (Unser retired after failing to qualify) | |
| Tasman Motorsports | Lola T9400 | Ford XB | 34 | Unsponsored | Indy 500 only; Withdrew after Herta joined A.J. Foyt's team. | |
| McCormack Motorsports | Lola T9400 | Ilmor D | 30 | Players (Bourbonnais only) | Bourbonnais: Long Beach, Toronto, Mid-Ohio, Vancouver, and Road America Ekblom: Detroit only |
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| Comptech Racing | Lola T9400 Lola T9300 |
Honda | 49 | Comptech | Portland, Cleveland, Toronto, Mid-Ohio, Vancouver, and Laguna Seca | |
| Greenfield Racing | Lola T93/01 | Greenfield GC 209T | 42 | Unsponsored | Indy 500 only; Greenfield missed Rookie Orientation, Parsons DNQ | |
Emerson Fittipaldi took his first pole in nearly a year. At the start, eighth place starter Adrian Fernandez spun across the track without contact. But in an effort to avoid him, Jacques Villeneuve and Arie Luyendyk crashed and were done for the day before taking the green flag, thus failing to start the race. Robby Gordon spun harmlessly. Luyendyk blamed the crash on the top qualifiers for bringing the field perhaps too slowly to the green flag. The resulting 25 car starting field was the smallest of the year, showing the strength of the sport at the time. A scary crash on Lap 13 involved Mike Groff and former Trans-Am champion Scott Sharp. Groff spun exiting Turn 2 and hit the outside wall; just behind him, Sharp spun to avoid him and was propelled by his kinetic energy onto Groff's nose. His car was launched into the air and flipped once and a half, leaving the Connecticut native hanging upside down in the car for approximately two minutes. The rookie was flipped carefully onto his wheels and walked away unharmed.
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Point Scoring System:
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| Points | 20 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Bonus Points:
| Pos | Country | SUR |
PHX |
LBH |
INDY |
MIL |
DET |
POR |
CLE |
TOR |
MIC |
MDO |
LOU |
VAN |
ROA |
NAZ |
LAG |
Pts |
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| 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 292 | |
| 2 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 225 | |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 213 | |
| 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 5 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 26 | 7 | 18 | 10 | 13 | 22 | 8 | 88 | |
| 5 | 7 | 26 | 9 | 7 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 86 | |
| 6 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 26 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 23 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 57 | |
| 7 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 28 | 16 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 23 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 5 | 21 | 7 | 46 | |
| 8 | 25 | 22 | 11 | 18 | 21 | 19 | 14 | 21 | 31 | 2 | 13 | 27 | 6 | 22 | 26 | 6 | 34 | |
| 9 | 15 | 27 | DNQ | 14 | 23 | DNQ | 21 | 15 | 18 | 6 | 18 | 17 | DNQ | 14 | 16 | 23 | 8 | |
| 10 | 12 | Wth | 12 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 11 | 12 | DNQ | 15 | DNQ | 29 | 18 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 12 | 24 | DNQ | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | 33 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| DNQ | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| DNQ | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| DNQ | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pos | Driver | SUR |
PHX |
LBH |
INDY |
MIL |
DET |
POR |
CLE |
TOR |
MIC |
MDO |
LOU |
VAN |
ROA |
NAZ |
LAG |
Pts |
| Pos | Chassis | Top Team | Top Driver | SUR |
PHX |
LBH |
INDY |
MIL |
DET |
POR |
CLE |
TOR |
MIC |
MDO |
LOU |
VAN |
ROA |
NAZ |
LAG |
Pts |
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| 1 | Marlboro Team Penske | Al Unser, Jr. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 313 | |
| 2 | Walker Racing | Robby Gordon | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 226 | |
| 3 | Target Chip Ganassi Racing | Michael Andretti | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 208 | |
| Pos | Chassis | Top Team | Top Driver | SUR |
PHX |
LBH |
INDY |
MIL |
DET |
POR |
CLE |
TOR |
MIC |
MDO |
LOU |
VAN |
ROA |
NAZ |
LAG |
Pts |
| Pos | Engine | Top Team | Top Driver | SUR |
PHX |
LBH |
INDY |
MIL |
DET |
POR |
CLE |
TOR |
MIC |
MDO |
LOU |
VAN |
ROA |
NAZ |
LAG |
Pts |
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| 1 | Marlboro Team Penske | Al Unser, Jr. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 316 | |
| 2 | Target Chip Ganassi Racing | Michael Andretti | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 258 | |
| 3 | Rahal Hogan Racing | Bobby Rahal | 8 | 6 | 27 | DNQ | 7 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 2 | 27 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 69 | |
| 4 | Marlboro Team Penske* | Al Unser, Jr.* | 1 | 22 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Team Menard* | Eddie Cheever* | 8 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Unknown* | Stephan Gregoire* | DNQ | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Greenfield Industries* | Johnny Parsons* | DNQ | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pos | Engine | Top Team | Top Driver | SUR |
PHX |
LBH |
INDY |
MIL |
DET |
POR |
CLE |
TOR |
MIC |
MDO |
LOU |
VAN |
ROA |
NAZ |
LAG |
Pts |
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