1998 Atlantic Championship

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1998 Toyota Atlantic Championship season
KOOL Toyota Atlantic Championship
Season
Races12
Start dateApril 4th
End dateOctober 4th
Awards
Drivers' championCanada Lee Bentham
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The 1998 Toyota Atlantic Championship season was contested over 13 rounds. All teams had to use Toyota engines. The KOOL Toyota Atlantic Championship Drivers' Champion was Lee Bentham driving for Forsythe Racing.

Calendar[]

Race No Track State Date Laps Lap Distance (km) Total Distance (km) Time Speed Winner Pole Position Most Leading Laps Fastest Race Lap
1 Long Beach California April 4, 1998 38 2.533 96.595 0'58:34.554 98.943 km/h Memo Gidley Buddy Rice Memo Gidley
2 Nazareth Pennsylvania April 25, 1998 60 1.5223978 91.343868 0'27:27.352 199.616 km/h Buddy Rice Buddy Rice Buddy Rice Buddy Rice
3 Madison Illinois May 22, 1998 27 2.011625 54.313875 0'28:19.198 115.072 km/h Memo Gidley Anthony Lazzaro Anthony Lazzaro Anthony Lazzaro
4 Milwaukee Wisconsin May 30, 1998 60 1.6607976 99.647856 0'32:29.552 184.008 km/h Memo Gidley Memo Gidley Memo Gidley Derek Hill
5 Montréal  Canada June 6, 1998 27 4.4207471 119.3601717 0'44:32.839 160.764 km/h Lee Bentham Lee Bentham Alexandre Tagliani Lee Bentham
6 Cleveland Ohio July 11, 1998 22 3.3891858 74.5620876 0'31:54.902 140.176 km/h Memo Gidley Memo Gidley
7 Toronto  Canada July 18, 1998 39 2.7696053 108.0146067 0'59:04.390 109.709 km/h Alexandre Tagliani Lee Bentham Alexandre Tagliani Lee Bentham
8 Trois-Rivières  Canada August 2, 1998 45 2.4477453 110.1485385 0'49:23.054 133.826 km/h Alexandre Tagliani Alexandre Tagliani Alexandre Tagliani Alexandre Tagliani
9 Lexington Ohio August 9, 1998 25 3.6337994 90.844985 0'33:03.166 164.909 km/h Lee Bentham Alexandre Tagliani Lee Bentham Anthony Lazzaro
10 Elkhart Lake Wisconsin August 16, 1998 15 6.4372 96.558 0'37:07.249 156.071 km/h Anthony Lazzaro Anthony Lazzaro Anthony Lazzaro
11 Vancouver  Canada September 5, 1998 38 2.8999586 110.1984268 1'00:59.908 108.395 km/h Jeff Shafer Matt Sielsky
12 Monterey California September 12, 1998 28 3.6016134 100.8451752 0'44:11.726 136.908 km/h Anthony Lazzaro Lee Bentham Lee Bentham Alexandre Tagliani
13 Houston Texas October 4, 1998 30 2.4574011 73.722033 0'41:26.827 106.722 km/h Anthony Lazzaro Alexandre Tagliani Anthony Lazzaro

Note:

Race 3 stopped earlier due to rain, originally scheduled over 50 laps.

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, 11 for fifth place, winding down to 1 point for 15th place. Lower placed drivers did not award points. Additional points were awarded to the pole winner (1 point) and to the driver leading the most laps (1 point). C2-class drivers were not able to score points in the main class.

Place Name Country Team Chassis Total Points United States United States United States United States Canada United States Canada Canada United States United States Canada United States United States
1 Lee Bentham  Canada Forsythe Racing Ralt 163 - 10 11
Forsythe Racing Swift 16 21 11 17 14 21 - 10 18 14
2  Canada BDJS Ralt 139 16 16 16 11 11 6 11
BDJS Swift - 11 - 20 9 12
3 Memo Gidley  United States Ralt 134 21 12 20 21 -
Swift 2 10 12 - 16 9 - 11
4 Anthony Lazzaro  United States PPI Motorsports Swift 133 - - 15 10 6 16 - 16 7 22 - 20 21
5 Alexandre Tagliani  Canada Forsythe Racing Ralt 130 6
Forsythe Racing Swift - 6 14 17 12 21 22 1 2 - 12 17
6 Matt Sielsky  United States Ralt 109 - 14 9 12 12
Swift 6 12 8 14 - 15 - 7
7 Buddy Rice  United States Ralt 108 3 22 12 5 14
Swift 14 - - 16 - 11 11 -
8  Canada Shank Racing Swift 92 8 - - - 10 20 14 9 - 14 3 14 -
9  Canada Ralt 70 - 11
Swift 7 8 4 2 5 3 4 8 - 8 10
10  Canada Swift 62 3 - - 7 8 - 9 2 9 9 12 3 -
11  Italy Swift 56 - - - - - - 11 7 12 - 16 10 -
12  United States Hylton Motorsports Swift 51 - 9 10 - - 9 - 6 10 7 - - -
13 Derek Hill  United States Swift 47 12 - - 6 - 7 4 - 6 11 1 - -
14  United States Swift 41 - 3 - - - 10 6 7 -
Ralt 8 5 2 -
15  United States Swift 39 5 5 8 4 - 10 - 1 - - - - 6
16  United States Ralt 37 10 6 - - 9 - - 5 2 - 5 - -
17  Italy Ralt 35 14 1 - 1 5 - - - -
Swift 4 8 2 -
18 Jeff Shafer  United States PPI Motorsports Swift 32 - - - 9 - - - 10 - 12 1 - -
19  Japan PPI Motorsports Swift 31 - - 3 - 7 8 - - 8 - - 5 -
20  United States Swift 29 9 - 6 - 4 3
Ralt 2 - - - 5 - -
21  United States Shank Racing Swift 21 4 3 2 - - - - - 5 - 7 - -
22  Sweden Swift 21 - - - 3 3 - 7 - 3 5 - - -
23 Jean-François Dumoulin  Canada Ralt 12 - - - - - - 8 4 - - - - -
24  United States Ralt 11 11 - - - - - - - - - - - -
25  United States Ralt 11 - 7 4 - - - - - - - - - -
26  Canada Swift 11 - - - - - - - - - - - 6 5
27 Nicolas Rondet  France Swift 9 - - - - - - - - - - - - 9
28  United States Ralt 9 - 4 1 - - 4 - - - - - - -
29  New Zealand Swift 8 - - - - - - - - - - - - 8
30  United States Ralt 7 7 - - - - - - - - - - - -
31 Joe Sposato  United States Ralt 6 - - - - 2 - - - 1 - - 1 2
32  Canada ? Ralt 5 - - - - - - 3 - - - 2 - -
33  United States Ralt 4 - - - - - - - - - - 4 - -
John Brooks  United States Ralt 4 - - - - - - - - - - - - 4
35  United States Ralt 3 - - - - - - - - - 3 - - -
36  United States Ralt 2 - - - - - - 2 - - - - - -
37 Zak Brown  United States Swift 2 - - - - 1 - - - - 1 - - -
38  United States Ralt 1 1 - - - - - - - - - - - -
 United States Ralt 1 - - - - - 1 - - - - - - -
Frank Allers  Canada Reynard 1 - - - - - - 1 - - - - - -
 United States Ralt 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - 1

Note:

Race 3 only one additional point awarded to Anthony Lazzaro, maybe because the race was abandoned.

Race 4 no additional point for the qualifying was awarded, because no session was held due to repair work on the track, starting lineup based on Friday morning practice times.

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