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1996 Indy Lights Season
The 1996 PPG Industries, PPG/Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Firestone Indy Lights Championship Powered By Buick consisted of 12 races. Canadian David Empringham captured three wins on his way to the championship. Calendar Race summaries Homestead race Held March 3 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. David Empringham won the pole. Top Five Results # David Empringham # Chris Simmons (driver), Chris Simmons # Mark Hotchkis # David DeSilva # Jeff Ward (motorsports), Jeff Ward Long Beach race Held April 14 at Long Beach, California Street Course. Gualter Salles won the pole. Top Five Results # David Empringham # Tony Kanaan # Gualter Salles # Hélio Castroneves, Hélio Castro-Neves # Alex Padilla (driver), Alex Padilla Nazareth race Held April 28 at Nazareth Speedway. Claude Bourbonnais won the pole. Top Five Results # David DeSilva # David Empringham # Mark Hotchkis # Chris Simmons (driver), Chris Simmons # Jeff Ward (motorsports), Jeff Ward Michigan race Held May 25 at Michigan In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PPG Industries
PPG Industries, Inc. is an American Fortune 500 company and global supplier of paints, coatings, and specialty materials. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PPG operates in more than 70 countries around the globe. By revenue it is the largest coatings company in the world followed by AkzoNobel. It is headquartered in PPG Place, an office and retail complex in downtown Pittsburgh, and is known for its glass facade designed by Postmodern architect Philip Johnson. History 19th century Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company was founded in 1883 by Captain John Baptiste Ford and John Pitcairn, Jr., at Creighton, Pennsylvania. Based in Creighton, Pennsylvania (about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh along the Allegheny River), PPG soon became the United States' first commercially successful producer of high-quality, thick flat glass using the plate process. PPG was also the world's first plate glass plant to power its furnaces with locally produced natural gas, an innov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
