AutoSportRadio.com 2024 Show for August 22nd

AutoSportRadio.com 2024 Show for August 22nd – Guests: Scott Goodyear and Kyle O’Gara
This show was recorded in front of a live audience at Green Street Pub and Eatery in Brownsburg, Indiana.

Scott Goodyear
Scott Goodyear is one of Canada’s best-known international racers, with experience in sedans, Indy cars and endurance races. In more than two decades of racing, during which he also operated a racing school, Goodyear is best known for his years driving in CART and the IRL. In his four-year Indy Racing League career, he recorded one top-five and two other top-10 finishes in the season point standings, as well as three wins, 14 other top-five finishes and seven other top-10 finishes. He finished in the top 10 five times driving in the Indianapolis 500, including two second-place efforts, the most memorable of which occurred in 1992 when he chased Al Unser Jr. to the finish line in a brilliant final two-lap charge, finishing second by just .043 of a second, the closest margin in race history. His most controversial Indy 500 race came in 1995 when he was ruled to have passed the pace car while leading late in the race. He was disqualified and the race was won by another Canadian, Jacques Villeneuve. Goodyear’s first Indy Car victory came that year at Michigan in the CART Marlboro 500. Six years after his 1980 auto racing debut, Goodyear seized his first title, the 1986 North American Formula Atlantic Championship, following a season in which he won five of nine races. That same year he was named Driver of the Year by the Canadian Race Drivers Association. Goodyear currently resides in Carmel, Indiana, with his wife Leslie and their three children.
Scott is currently Director of F3 and F4 Series.
Kyle O'Gara
Consistency is the key to every championship. A perennial championship contender who embodies the notion of consistency better than most, is Kyle O’Gara. Another strong season saw O’Gara finish third in the 500 Sprint Car Tour Championship Standings for the second straight year. He, along with 2022 Tour Champion Kody Swanson, are the only two drivers to finish in the top three in points in back to back seasons.
O’Gara began competing on a regular basis in 2018 with the group that is now known as the 500 Sprint Car Tour. Prior to the 500 Sprint Car Tour being formed in the winter of 2021, sprint car races held at Anderson Speedway were sanctioned by the facility. When O’Gara first began competing in these events, he struggled. He did not have a podium position through the first eight events he raced in, but broke that streak with a second place finish in the 2020 edition of the Glen Niebel Classic. A metaphorical switch had been flipped and O’Gara found his footing. Since the beginning of the 2021 season, he has eight top five finishes, five podium positions, and two wins at Anderson Speedway. His recent success at the Anderson, Indiana oval immediately translated to other tracks that the 500 Sprint Car Tour would visit in 2022 and 2023.
In regards to being as consistent as possible, Kyle O’Gara fits the mold perfectly. Not only has he finished third in the final championship standings two years in a row, but he has collected a total of 16 top ten finishes over a total of 18 races competed in since the beginning of the 2022 season. More impressively, 12 of his 16 top ten finishes saw him finish in the top five as well. In 2022, O’Gara completed 522 of a possible 555 laps for a completion rate of 94%. He followed suit in 2023 completing 512 of a possible 525 for a completion rate of 98%. O’Gara’s ability to not only compete in every race, but to finish races while also competing for wins, sets him apart as one of the most prolific, and consistent, drivers in the 500 Sprint Car Tour.

Producer: Ted Howlett, Camera, Bill Pea, House Audio, Chad Pierce, Production Assistance and Video Equipment by Speedway Community Television.