1998 Texaco/Havoline 200
Race details | |
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Race 14 of 19 in the 1998 CART season | |
Date | August 16, 1998 |
Official name | 1998 Texaco/Havoline 200 |
Location | Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin |
Course | Permanent road course 4.048 mi / 6.515 km |
Distance | 50 laps 202.4 mi / 325.75 km |
Weather | Temperatures reaching up to 73.4 °F (23.0 °C); wind speeds up to 12 miles per hour (19 km/h)[1] |
Pole position | |
Driver | Michael Andretti (Newman-Haas Racing) |
Time | 1:39.988 |
Fastest lap | |
Driver | Alex Zanardi (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
Time | 1:41.874 (on lap 49 of 50) |
Podium | |
First | Dario Franchitti (Team KOOL Green) |
Second | Alex Zanardi (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
Third | Christian Fittipaldi (Newman-Haas Racing) |
The 1998 Texaco/Havoline 200 was the fourteenth round of the 1998 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on August 16, 1998, at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Dario Franchitti won the race, his first career win in CART. The race was also notable for a crash in which Alex Barron ended up on top of Bryan Herta.
Classification[]
Race[]
Pos | No | Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 27 | Dario Franchitti | Team Green | 50 | 1:35:30.767 | 6 | 20+1 |
2 | 1 | Alex Zanardi | Chip Ganassi Racing | 50 | +7.102 | 11 | 16 |
3 | 11 | Christian Fittipaldi | Newman-Haas Racing | 50 | +43.922 | 7 | 14 |
4 | 21 | Tony Kanaan | Tasman Motorsports Group | 50 | +46.134 | 12 | 12 |
5 | 40 | Adrián Fernández | Patrick Racing | 50 | +47.097 | 9 | 10 |
6 | 26 | Paul Tracy | Team Green | 50 | +52.003 | 17 | 8 |
7 | 18 | Mark Blundell | PacWest Racing Group | 50 | +52.167 | 15 | 6 |
8 | 7 | Bobby Rahal | Team Rahal | 50 | +1:06.372 | 3 | 5 |
9 | 12 | Jimmy Vasser | Chip Ganassi Racing | 50 | +1:07.084 | 14 | 4 |
10 | 77 | Arnd Meier | 50 | +1:07.598 | 27 | 3 | |
11 | 25 | Max Papis | Arciero-Wells Racing | 50 | +1:14.329 | 19 | 2 |
12 | 24 | Robby Gordon | Arciero-Wells Racing | 50 | +1:15.697 | 23 | 1 |
13 | 10 | Richie Hearn | Della Penna Motorsports | 50 | +1:19.336 | 25 | |
14 | 19 | Michel Jourdain Jr. | Payton/Coyne Racing | 50 | +1:38.024 | 24 | |
15 | 6 | Michael Andretti | Newman-Haas Racing | 49 | Tyre/Contact | 1 | 1 |
16 | 5 | Gil de Ferran | Walker Racing | 43 | Engine | 5 | |
17 | 34 | Gualter Salles | Payton/Coyne Racing | 41 | Engine | 20 | |
18 | 9 | JJ Lehto | Hogan Racing | 32 | Exhaust | 18 | |
19 | 17 | Maurício Gugelmin | PacWest Racing Group | 29 | Brakes | 21 | |
20 | 20 | Scott Pruett | Patrick Racing | 24 | Engine | 4 | |
21 | 99 | Greg Moore | Forsythe Racing | 18 | Transmission | 8 | |
22 | 98 | P. J. Jones | All American Racing | 14 | Spun off | 28 | |
23 | 8 | Bryan Herta | Team Rahal | 10 | Contact | 2 | |
24 | 36 | Alex Barron | All American Racing | 10 | Contact | 26 | |
25 | 3 | André Ribeiro | Team Penske | 7 | Engine | 13 | |
26 | 16 | Hélio Castro-Neves | Bettenhausen Racing | 2 | Header | 22 | |
27 | 2 | Al Unser, Jr. | Team Penske | 0 | Contact | 10 | |
28 | 33 | Patrick Carpentier | Forsythe Racing | 0 | Contact | 16 |
Caution flags[]
Laps | Cause |
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10 | Ribeiro (3) stalled on course |
12-14 | Herta (8), Barron (36) contact |
Lap Leaders[]
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Point standings after race[]
Pos | Driver | Points |
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1 | Alex Zanardi | 206 |
2 | Jimmy Vasser | 126 |
3 | Adrián Fernández | 120 |
4 | Greg Moore | 119 |
5 | Michael Andretti | 93 |
References[]
- ^ "1998 Texaco/Havoline 200 weather information". Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2013-07-14.
Categories:
- 1998 in CART
- 1998 in sports in Wisconsin
- August 1998 sports events in the United States
- Champ Car Grand Prix of Road America