1998 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
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Race details | |
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Race 3 of 19 in the 1998 CART season | |
Date | April 5, 1998 |
Official name | 1998 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach |
Location | Streets of Long Beach Long Beach, California, United States |
Course | Temporary street circuit 1.593 mi / 2.563 km |
Distance | 105 laps 167.280 mi / 269.211 km |
Weather | Dry |
Pole position | |
Driver | Bryan Herta (Team Rahal) |
Time | 50.945 |
Fastest lap | |
Driver | Bobby Rahal (Team Rahal) |
Time | 51.333 (on lap 96 of 105) |
Podium | |
First | Alex Zanardi (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
Second | Dario Franchitti (Team KOOL Green) |
Third | Bryan Herta (Team Rahal) |
The 1998 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the third round of the 1998 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on April 5, 1998, on the streets of Long Beach, California. Alex Zanardi won the race, even though he was a lap down at one point.
This is the last Grand Prix of Long Beach to have Al Unser Jr and Bobby Rahal.
Classification[]
Race[]
Pos | No | Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 1 | Alex Zanardi | Chip Ganassi Racing | 105 | 1:51:29.113 | 11 | 20 |
2 | 27 | Dario Franchitti | Team Green | 105 | +2.917 | 8 | 16 |
3 | 8 | Bryan Herta | Team Rahal | 105 | +4.336 | 1 | 14+1 |
4 | 40 | Adrián Fernández | Patrick Racing | 105 | +5.885 | 3 | 12 |
5 | 21 | Tony Kanaan | Tasman Motorsports Group | 105 | +15.905 | 13 | 10 |
6 | 99 | Greg Moore | Forsythe Racing | 105 | +19.357 | 14 | 8 |
7 | 18 | Mark Blundell | PacWest Racing Group | 105 | +21.158 | 23 | 6 |
8 | 12 | Jimmy Vasser | Chip Ganassi Racing | 105 | +24.602 | 20 | 5 |
9 | 16 | Hélio Castro-Neves | Bettenhausen Racing | 105 | +37.374 | 15 | 4 |
10 | 17 | Maurício Gugelmin | PacWest Racing Group | 105 | +51.452 | 22 | 3 |
11 | 98 | P. J. Jones | All American Racing | 104 | +1 Lap | 25 | 2 |
12 | 20 | Scott Pruett | Patrick Racing | 104 | +1 Lap | 7 | 1 |
13 | 34 | Gualter Salles | Payton/Coyne Racing | 104 | +1 Lap | 4 | |
14 | 36 | Alex Barron | All American Racing | 103 | +2 Laps | 27 | |
15 | 77 | Arnd Meier | 102 | +3 Laps | 21 | ||
16 | 15 | Domenico Schiattarella | Project Indy | 101 | Contact | 28 | |
17 | 7 | Bobby Rahal | Team Rahal | 101 | +4 Laps | 2 | |
18 | 9 | JJ Lehto | Hogan Racing | 99 | +6 Laps | 16 | |
19 | 24 | Hiro Matsushita | Arciero-Wells Racing | 98 | +7 Laps | 29 | |
20 | 5 | Gil de Ferran | Walker Racing | 94 | Transmission | 5 | 1 |
21 | 6 | Michael Andretti | Newman-Haas Racing | 55 | Tire | 6 | |
22 | 3 | André Ribeiro | Team Penske | 55 | Oil leak | 17 | |
23 | 10 | Richie Hearn | Della Penna Motorsports | 53 | Transmission | 19 | |
24 | 25 | Max Papis | Arciero-Wells Racing | 37 | Contact | 24 | |
25 | 26 | Paul Tracy | Team Green | 19 | Contact | 9 | |
26 | 11 | Christian Fittipaldi | Newman-Haas Racing | 19 | Contact | 12 | |
27 | 19 | Michel Jourdain Jr. | Payton/Coyne Racing | 14 | Contact | 17 | |
28 | 33 | Patrick Carpentier | Forsythe Racing | 8 | Contact | 26 | |
29 | 2 | Al Unser, Jr. | Team Penske | 0 | Contact | 10 |
Caution flags[]
Laps | Cause |
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1–3 | Unser, Jr. (2), Castroneves (16) contact |
15–18 | Jourdain Jr. (19) contact |
20–23 | Tracy (26), Fittipaldi (11) contact |
26–28 | Jones (98), Rahal (7), Andretti (6) contact |
30–33 | Matsushita (24), Salles (34) contact |
39–42 | Papis (25), Barron (36) contact |
55–61 | Andretti (6) contact |
Lap leaders[]
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Point standings after race[]
Pos | Driver | Points |
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1 | Adrián Fernández | 41 |
2 | Greg Moore | 37 |
3 | Alex Zanardi | 34 |
4 | Dario Franchitti | 25 |
5 | Michael Andretti | 21 |
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