1997
St. Petersburg
Tropicana Field
1.6 Mile Street Course
25 Laps/40 Miles
February 23, 1996
| Finish | Start | Driver | Car # | Sponsor/Name | Chassis | Engine | Laps | Status | Points |
| 1 | 3 | Rino Mastronardi | 23 | Tatuus Race Cars | Tatuus | Ford | 25 | 1:00:37.287 | |
| 2 | 1 | Matt Sielsky | 16 | Team Kool Green/Bolle/Sea Doo/Emerald Financial | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 27 |
| 3 | 10 | Buddy Rice | 19 | Red Line Oil/Motorsport Spares/J. Schnovel/Lodi | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 23 |
| 4 | 5 | David Webb | 13 | Webb's Machine Design | Swift DB-6 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 20 |
| 5 | 8 | Andy Lally | 75 | Simtek-GMP | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 18 |
| 6 | 13 | Augie Pabst III | 77 | Red Line Oil/Cyclo Chemical | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 16 |
| 7 | 16 | Juliano Moro | 24 | Omnisat/Metamoro | Van Diemen | Ford | 25 | Finished | |
| 8 | 12 | Zak Morioka | 27 | KFC of Brazil | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 13 |
| 9 | 6 | Don Burgoon | 3 | Performance Friction | Tatuus RC97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 12 |
| 10 | 21 | Tim Duit | 34 | TTK Construction/Hooten Oil | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 11 |
| 11 | 15 | Mike Johnson | 10 | UniDial Long Distance/Valvoline/Slick Eyewear | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 10 |
| 12 | 32 | Duncan Dayton | 4 | Tamarack Investments | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 9 |
| 13 | 25 | Ollie Besinger | 76 | Slick Eyewear/Hidden Bay Lodge & Camps | Van Diemen RF96 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 8 |
| 14 | 4 | David Besnard | 2 | Valvoline | Van Diemen | Ford | 25 | Finished | 7 |
| 15 | 35 | Tom Wood | 20 | Round-Up Well Service/Round-Up Resource Service | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 6 |
| 16 | 39 | Ric Rushton | 15 | DSTP Motorsports | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 5 |
| 17 | 36 | Jonathan Newberg | 21 | Toro/Newberg Irrigation | Van Diemen | Ford | 25 | Finished | 4 |
| 18 | 33 | Jeff Smith | 33 | Terre Haute 1st National Bank/L. Bird's T. C. | Citation | Ford | 25 | Finished | 3 |
| 19 | 27 | Owen Trinkler | 94 | Red Line Oil/Simpson Race Products | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 2 |
| 20 | 23 | Sam Hornish, Jr. | 7 | Hornish Bros. Trucking/Fountain City Leasing | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 1 |
| 21 | 29 | Giuliano Losacco | 17 | Cotia/Metagal | Tatuus | Ford | 24 | Flagged | 1 |
| 22 | 30 | Mike Williams | 26 | Windstorm Racing/Cape Motorsports | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 23 | Mechanical | 1 |
| 23 | 42 | Kevin Frisbie | 38 | Frisbie's Filter Service | Euroswift SE-3 | Ford | 22 | Flagged | |
| 24 | 2 | Jeff Shafer | 66 | Team Kool Green | Nemesis | Ford | 20 | Flagged | 1 |
| 25 | 17 | Jean-François Veilleux | 73 | Auto-Pro/Player's | Van Diemen | Ford | 16 | Wrecked | 1 |
| 26 | 28 | Jon Groom | 51 | Human Factors Industrial Design | Van Diemen RF96 | Ford | 10 | Engine | 1 |
| 27 | 9 | Cory Witherill | 67 | WSA Health Care | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 8 | Wrecked | 1 |
| 28 | 19 | Jeff Horne | 11 | Lakeview Concrete/West Coast Steel/Bell Helmets | Van Diemen RF96 | Ford | 7 | Suspension | (1) |
| 29 | 7 | Robby McGehee | 18 | Hudson Foods/Energizer Battery | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 7 | Mechanical | 1 |
| 30 | 20 | Urubatan Helou, Jr. | 9 | BrasPress | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 6 | Mechanical | 1 |
| 31 | 26 | Larry Vatri | 25 | Newark Parcel Service/Batteries Plus | Swift DB-6 | Ford | 4 | Wrecked | |
| 32 | 22 | Seth Taylor | 81 | Taylor Race Engineering | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 1 | Wrecked | (1) |
| 33 | 38 | Grant Van Schalkwyk | 31 | X | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 1 | Wrecked | 1 |
| 34 | 40 | John McMurray | 6 | Crate/Valvoline/Yokohama | Swift DB-6 | Ford | 1 | Wrecked | 1 |
| 35 | 37 | Ken Dromm | 8 | PayPlus Payrolls | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 1 | Wrecked | 1 |
| 36 | 24 | John Miller | 84 | Manheim Auctions/ICG | Van Diemen RF96 | Ford | 1 | Wrecked | 1 |
| 37 | 34 | James Yott | 22 | X | Van Diemen RF95 | Ford | 1 | Wrecked | 1 |
| 38 | 41 | Henri Najem | 97 | Weitzel Construction/Mechanics Laundry | Vector | Ford | 1 | Wrecked | |
| 39 | 18 | Greg LeMond | 83 | Manheim Auctions/ICG | Van Diemen RF96 | Ford | 0 | Wrecked | 1 |
| 40 | 14 | Luciano Zangirolami | 99 | Skala/Bazar | Van Diemen | Ford | 0 | Mechanical | 1 |
| 41 | 11 | David Rutledge | 78 | Fleming Financial | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | 0 | Wrecked | (1) |
| -- | 31 | Michael Fitzgerald | 5 | Fitze Engineers | Van Diemen RF97 | Ford | -- | Did not start |
B Class Results
| Finish | Start | Driver | Car # | Sponsor/Name | Chassis | Engine | Laps | Status | Points |
| 1 | 1 | David Webb | 13 | Webb's Machine Design | Swift DB-6 | Ford | 25 | Finished | 31 |
| 2 | 4 | Kevin Frisbie | 38 | Frisbie's Filter Service | Euroswift SE-3 | Ford | 22 | Flagged | |
| 3 | 2 | Larry Vatri | 25 | Newark Parcel Service/Batteries Plus | Swift DB-6 | Ford | 4 | Wrecked | |
| 4 | 3 | John McMurray | 6 | Crate/Valvoline/Yokohama | Swift DB-6 | Ford | 1 | Wrecked | 20 |