1998 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
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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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | Davis Racing | 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 |
---|---|
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 | Barron (36) contact
|
55–61 | Andretti (6) contact |
Lap leaders
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Point standings after race
Pos | Driver | Points |
---|---|---|
1 | Adrián Fernández | 41 |
2 | Greg Moore | 37 |
3 | Alex Zanardi | 34 |
4 | Dario Franchitti | 25 |
5 | Michael Andretti | 21 |
References
- ^ "1998 Long Beach Grand Prix". Retrieved 9 May 2022.