Team Scandia was a short-lived American
auto racing
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team that competed in the
Indy Racing League
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between 1996 and 1999, also entering the
1998 NASCAR Cup and the
24 Hours of Daytona
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on three occasions.
The team traces its origin to when
Andy Evans bought much of
Dick Simon Racing
Dick Simon Racing was a race team owned by racer Dick Simon that competed in the CART Championship Car series from 1983 to 1995 and the Indy Racing League from 1999 to 2001.
CART
The team was founded in 1983 when Simon decided to bring his spons ...
from
Dick Simon during the
1996 IRL season. As such, Simon was listed as the owners of some of Scandia's cars in the
1996 Indianapolis 500
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; in which the team fielded a record 7 cars. The team tried to achieve a similar feat with five cars in the
1997 Indy 500, but with higher expenses brought by new chassis, the venture was less successful. Later that season, the team captured its only IRL victory with a car driven by
Eliseo Salazar at
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
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. The team shut down in
1999
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
Events January
* January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers.
* January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
due to lack of sponsorship after scaling back heavily from
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
onwards.
Team Scandia drivers
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Michele Alboreto
Michele Alboreto (; 23 December 1956 – 25 April 2001) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Alboreto was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in with Scuderia Ferrari, Ferrari, and won five F ...
(1996–1997)
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Racin Gardner (1996)
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Affonso Giaffone (1997)
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Marco Greco (1997)
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Stephan Gregoire (1997)
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Joe Gosek Joseph Edward Gosek (born March 11, 1956, in Oswego, New York), is a Supermodified race car driver. He also raced in the 1996 Indianapolis 500, finishing 22nd. Gosek was nicknamed 'Double-O Joe' for his traditional use of car number '00'.
Gosek ha ...
(1996)
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Jim Guthrie (1999)
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Michel Jourdain Jr. (1996–1997)
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Jimmy Kite (1997–1998)
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Billy Roe (1998)
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Eliseo Salazar (1996–1997)
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Vincenzo Sospiri (1997)
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Lyn St. James (1996)
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Fermín Vélez (1996–1997)
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Alessandro Zampedri (1996–1997)
IRL Race Results
(
key) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
IndyCar win
IndyCar Series teams
American auto racing teams
24 Hours of Le Mans teams
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