1992 Indy Lights season

The 1992 Firestone Indy Lights Championship consisted of 12 races. American Robbie Buhl captured a single victory on his way to the championship.^[1] This was the last season where all chassis were supplied by March.

Calendar

Race No	Track	State	Date	Laps	Distance	Time	Speed	Winner	Pole Position	Most Leading Laps	Fastest Race Lap
1	Phoenix	Arizona	April 5, 1992	75	1.6093=120.6975 km	0'36:54.582	196.205 km/h	Adrian Fernández	Franck Fréon	Adrian Fernández	Adrian Fernández
2	Long Beach	California	April 12, 1992	47	2.558787=120.262989 km	0'52:08.534	138.386 km/h	Franck Fréon	Franck Fréon	Franck Fréon	Franck Fréon
3	Detroit	Michigan	June 7, 1992	29	3.37953=98.00637 km	0'48:14.272	121.904 km/h	Adrian Fernández	Adrian Fernández	Adrian Fernández	?
4	Portland	Oregon	June 21, 1992	39	3.138135=122.387265 km	0'46:02.544	159.489 km/h	Franck Fréon	Franck Fréon	Franck Fréon	Franck Fréon
5	Milwaukee	Wisconsin	June 28, 1992	75	1.6607976=124.55982 km	0'36:53.309	202.600 km/h	Adrian Fernández	Adrian Fernández	Adrian Fernández	?
6	Loudon	New Hampshire	July 5, 1992	71	1.7026394=120.8873974 km	0'43:54.471	165.192 km/h	Adrian Fernández	Adrian Fernández	Adrian Fernández	?
7	Toronto	Canada	July 19, 1992	42	2.8709912=120.58163 km	0'56:23.545	128.296 km/h	Bryan Herta	Mark Smith	Robbie Buhl	?
8	Cleveland	Ohio	August 9, 1992	32	3.8124317=121.9978144 km	0'40:30.83	180.676 km/h	Franck Fréon	Robbie Buhl	Franck Fréon	?
9	Vancouver	Canada	August 30, 1992	45	2.6987961=121.4458245 km	0'57:37.506	126.451 km/h	Mark Smith	Robbie Buhl	Robbie Buhl	?
10	Lexington	Ohio	September 13, 1992	34	3.6337994=122.004252 km	0'50:03.661	146.227 km/h	Robbie Groff	Franck Fréon	Franck Fréon	Robbie Groff
11	Nazareth	Pennsylvania	October 4, 1992	75	1.5223978=114.179835 km	0'37:52.115	180.910 km/h	Robbie Buhl	Robbie Buhl	Robbie Buhl	?
12	Monterey	California	October 18, 1992	34	3.5629902=121.1416668 km	0'46:58.837	154.713 km/h	Robbie Groff	Robbie Groff	Robbie Groff	?

Race summaries

Phoenix race

Held April 5 at Phoenix International Raceway. Franck Fréon won the pole.

Top Five Results

1. Adrian Fernández
2. Robbie Groff
3. Robbie Buhl
4. Marco Greco
5. Tommy Byrne

Long Beach race

Held April 12 at Long Beach, California Street Course. Franck Fréon won the pole.

Top Five Results

1. Franck Fréon
2. Robbie Groff
3. Robbie Buhl
4. Marco Greco
5. Sandy Brody

Detroit race

Held June 7 at Belle Isle Raceway. Adrian Fernández won the pole.

Top Five Results

1. Adrian Fernández
2. Robbie Buhl
3. Mark Smith
4. Tommy Byrne
5. Franck Fréon

Portland race

Held June 21 at Portland International Raceway. Franck Fréon won the pole.

Top Five Results

1. Franck Fréon
2. Robbie Buhl
3. Tommy Byrne
4. Robbie Groff
5. Sandy Brody

Milwaukee race

Held June 28 at The Milwaukee Mile. Adrian Fernández won the pole.

Top Five Results

1. Adrian Fernández
2. Robbie Groff
3. Robbie Buhl
4. Franck Fréon
5. Mark Smith

Loudon race

Held July 5 at New Hampshire International Speedway. Adrian Fernández won the pole.

Top Five Results

1. Adrian Fernández
2. Franck Fréon
3. Robbie Buhl
4. Bryan Herta
5. Dave Kudrave

Toronto race

Held July 19 at Exhibition Place. Mark Smith won the pole.

Top Five Results

1. Bryan Herta
2. Robbie Buhl
3. Marco Greco
4. Sandy Brody
5. Robbie Groff

Cleveland race

Held August 9 at Burke Lakefront Airport. Robbie Buhl won the pole.

Top Five Results

1. Franck Fréon
2. Bryan Herta
3. Robbie Buhl
4. Mike Snow
5. Sandy Brody

Vancouver race

Held August 30 at Pacific Place. Robbie Buhl won the pole.

Top Five Results

1. Mark Smith
2. Robbie Buhl
3. Sandy Brody
4. Franck Fréon
5. Bryan Herta

Mid-Ohio race

Held September 13 at The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Franck Fréon won the pole.

Top Five Results

1. Robbie Groff
2. Fredrik Ekblom
3. Robbie Buhl
4. Bryan Herta
5. Adrian Fernández

Nazareth race

Held October 4 at Nazareth Speedway. Robbie Buhl won the pole.

Top Five Results

1. Robbie Buhl
2. Franck Fréon
3. Bryan Herta
4. Robbie Groff
5. Mark Smith

Laguna Seca race

Held October 18 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Robbie Groff won the pole.

Top Five Results

1. Robbie Groff
2. Bryan Herta
3. Franck Fréon
4. Robbie Buhl
5. Adrian Fernández

Final points standings

Driver

For every race the points were awarded: 20 points to the winner, 16 for runner-up, 14 for third place, 12 for fourth place, 10 for fifth place, 8 for sixth place, 6 seventh place, winding down to 1 points for 12th place. Additional points were awarded to the pole winner (1 point) and to the driver leading the most laps (1 point).

Place	Name	Country	Team	Total Points
1	Robbie Buhl	United States	Leading Edge Motorsport	186	14	14	16	16	14	14	17	15	18	14	22	12
2	Franck Fréon	France	Landford Racing	159	3	22	10	22	12	16	1	21	12	10	16	14
3	Adrian Fernández	Mexico	John Martin Racing	134	21	1	22	8	22	22	8	3	4	10	3	10
4	Robbie Groff	United States	Groff Motorsports	128	16	16	-	12	16	1	10	-	3	20	12	22
5	Bryan Herta	United States	Landford Racing	120	-	-	6	6	8	12	20	16	10	12	14	16
6	Sandy Brody	United States	McNeill Motorsports	85	5	10	5	10	4	6	12	10	14	5	4	-
7	Mark Smith	United States	Evergreen Racing	74	6	2	14	-	10	2	4	-	20	6	10	-
	Marco Greco	Brazil	Landford Racing	74	12	12	8	-	5	8	14	4	-	3	8	-
9	Dave Kudrave	United States	Regency Racing	49	8	-	4	4	6	10	6	-	6	-	5	-
10	Tommy Byrne	Ireland	P.I.G. Racing	44	10	8	12	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
11	Fredrik Ekblom	Sweden	Bradley Motorsports	24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	-	8
12	George Sutcliffe	United States	P.I.G. Racing	17	-	-	2	-	2	4	4	5	-	-	-	-
13	Mike Snow	United States	Bradley Motorsports	16	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	12	2	-	-	-
	Mark Ritchey	United States	Miller Racing Team	16	-	4	-	-	1	-	5	1	1	4	-	-
15	Bruce Feldman	United States	Leading Edge Motorsport	12	4	-	3	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Bob Dorricott, Jr.	United States	Cameron-McGee Motorsports	12	3	5	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
17	Bob Reid	United States	P.I.G. Racing	11	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	8	-	2	-	-
	Philippe Favre	Switzerland	Landford Racing	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	5
19	Elton Julian	United States	McNeill Motorsports	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	-
	Rick Hill	United States	3-D Motorsports	8	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
21	John Brumder	United States	Bradley Motorsports	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-
	Jeff Ward	United States	P.I.G. Racing	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
23	Vince Neil	United States	P.I.G. Racing	5	1	-	-	1	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Scott Wood	United States	P.I.G. Racing	5	-	3	-	-	-	-
			Landford Racing								2	-	-	-	-	-
	Alex Padilla	United States	McNeill Motorsports	5	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Scott Maxwell	Canada	Landford Racing	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-
	Billy Roe	United States	P.I.G. Racing	5	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-
			McCormack Racing												2	-
28	Robert Amrén	Sweden	McNeill Motorsports	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
	Scott Schubot	United States	TransAtlantic Racing	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	3
30	Jack Miller	United States	Miller Racing Team	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-

Complete Overview

first column of every race

10

= grid position

second column of every race

10

= race result

R12=retired, but classified NS=did not start

Place	Name	Country	Team
1	Robbie Buhl	United States	Leading Edge Motorsport	3	3	2	3	6	2	2	2	3	3	2	3	5	2	1	3	1	2	6	3	1	1	7	4
2	Franck Fréon	France	Landford Racing	1	11	1	1	5	5	1	1	13	4	3	2	2	R12	3	1	3	4	1	6	2	2	3	3
3	Adrian Fernández	Mexico	John Martin Racing	2	1	5	R12	1	1	5	6	1	1	1	1	6	6	7	10	5	9	5	5	4	R10	4	5
4	Robbie Groff	United States	Groff Motorsports	6	2	3	2	4	R15	4	4	4	2	5	R12	7	5	-	-	2	10	4	1	6	4	1	1
5	Bryan Herta	United States	Landford Racing	8	R16	11	R13	8	7	7	7	6	6	8	4	3	1	2	2	6	5	3	4	5	3	2	2
6	Sandy Brody	United States	McNeill Motorsports	13	8	7	5	15	8	10	5	12	9	9	7	9	4	4	5	7	3	13	8	8	9	12	R14
7	Mark Smith	United States	Evergreen Racing	5	7	4	R11	3	3	3	14	2	5	7	11	1	R10	15	R14	4	1	10	7	2	5	6	R20
	Marco Greco	Brazil	Landford Racing	4	4	8	4	10	6	9	R17	7	8	6	6	8	3	5	9	-	-	11	10	9	6	-	-
9	Dave Kudrave	United States	Regency Racing	9	6	6	R15	11	9	13	9	5	7	4	5	4	7	6	R13	8	7	7	R18	7	R8	5	R16
10	Tommy Byrne	Ireland	P.I.G. Racing	7	5	9	6	2	4	6	3	8	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
11	Fredrik Ekblom	Sweden	Bradley Motorsports	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	-	-	9	6
12	George Sutcliffe	United States	P.I.G. Racing	-	-	-	-	14	R11	15	15	9	11	10	9	14	9	10	8	14	13	-	-	-	-	18	13
13	Mike Snow	United States	Bradley Motorsports	16	15	-	-	-	-	11	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	4	9	11	8	15	-	-	10	R15
	Mark Ritchey	United States	Miller Racing Team	-	-	14	9	12	13	14	13	11	12	-	-	12	8	12	12	11	12	15	9	-	-
			Leading Edge Motorsport																							19	R19
15	Bruce Feldman	United States	Leading Edge Motorsport	12	9	13	R16	7	10	-	-	-	-	12	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Bob Dorricott, Jr.	United States	Cameron-McGee Motorsports	11	10	12	8	-	-	12	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	R15	-	-	-	-	17	12
17	Bob Reid	United States	P.I.G. Racing	-	-	-	-	13	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	R13	11	6	-	-	14	11	-	-	-	-
	Philippe Favre	Switzerland	Landford Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	R16	10	7	15	8
19	Elton Julian	United States	McNeill Motorsports	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	6	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Rick Hill	United States	3-D Motorsports	-	-	15	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	11
21	John Brumder	United States	Bradley Motorsports	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Jeff Ward	United States	P.I.G. Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	7
23	Vince Neil	United States	P.I.G. Racing	14	12	17	R17	-	-	16	12	10	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Scott Wood	United States	P.I.G. Racing	15	14	16	10	-	-
			Landford Racing							17	R16	-	-	-	-	10	R11	9	NS	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Alex Padilla	United States	McNeill Motorsports	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Scott Maxwell	Canada	Landford Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	8	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Billy Roe	United States	P.I.G. Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
			McCormack Racing																					11	R11	-	-
28	Robert Amrén	Sweden	McNeill Motorsports	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	9
	Scott Schubot	United States	TransAtlantic Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	12	-	-	14	10
30	Jack Miller	United States	Miller Racing Team	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	11	-	-	18	13	-	-	-	-
-	Rupert Keegan	United Kingdom	Leading Edge Motorsport	10	13	10	R14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Kat Teasdale	Canada	Leading Edge Motorsport	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	R14	-	-	13	14	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Hervé Regout	Belgium	Fastrak Racing	-	-	-	-	9	R14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Calvin Fish	United Kingdom	P.I.G. Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	14	-	-	-	-
-	Enrique Contreras	Mexico	TransAtlantic Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	R17	-	-	-	-
-	Mario Domínguez	Mexico	Landford Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	R17
-	Eddie Lawson	United States	Leading Edge Motorsport	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	R18