2003 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

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Newman/Haas Racing
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The 2003

2003 CART World Series season, held on April 13, 2003 on the streets of Long Beach, California
. This race was a new low in TV ratings for the series. Only 69,000 people watched the race on SPEED Channel, less than the 95,000 who attended the race.

Qualifying results

Pos Nat Name Team Qual 1 Qual 2 Best
1 Mexico Michel Jourdain Jr.
Team Rahal
1:09.530 1:08.177 1:08.177
2 Canada Paul Tracy Team Player's 1:09.079 1:08.729 1:09.079
3 Canada Alex Tagliani Rocketsports Racing 1:09.752 1:08.371 1:08.371
4 Brazil Bruno Junqueira
Newman/Haas Racing
1:09.120 1:08.537 1:08.537
5 France Sébastien Bourdais Newman/Haas Racing 1:09.242 1:08.549 1:08.549
6 Canada Patrick Carpentier Team Player's 1:09.406 1:08.660 1:08.660
7 Mexico
Adrian Fernández
Fernández Racing 1:09.432 1:08.784 1:08.784
8 Spain Oriol Servià Patrick Racing 1:09.546 1:08.821 1:08.821
9 Brazil Roberto Moreno Herdez Competition 1:10.086 1:09.028 1:09.028
10 United Kingdom Darren Manning Walker Racing 1:10.707 1:09.135 1:09.135
11 Mexico Mario Domínguez Herdez Competition 1:09.993 1:09.222 1:09.222
12 United States Ryan Hunter-Reay
American Spirit Team Johansson
1:10.408 1:09.359 1:09.359
13 France Patrick Lemarié
PK Racing
1:11.026 1:09.736 1:09.736
14 United States Jimmy Vasser American Spirit Team Johansson 1:10.083 1:09.765 1:09.765
15 Brazil
Mario Haberfeld
Mi-Jack Conquest Racing 1:10.834 1:10.014 1:10.014
16 Portugal Tiago Monteiro
Fittipaldi-Dingman Racing
1:10.459 1:10.092 1:10.092
17 Mexico Rodolfo Lavín Walker Racing 1:11.082 1:11.082
18 Switzerland Joël Camathias Dale Coyne Racing 1:12.281 1:11.303 1:11.303
19 Malaysia Alex Yoong Dale Coyne Racing 1:12.393 1:11.566 1:11.566

Rodolfo Lavín missed the first qualification session after a crashing during practice.

Race

Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 3 Canada Paul Tracy Team Player's 90 1:56:01.792 2 21
2 51
Adrian Fernández
Fernández Racing 90 +4.5 secs 7 16
3 1 Brazil Bruno Junqueira
Newman/Haas Racing
90 +13.7 secs 4 14
4 12 United States Jimmy Vasser
American Spirit Team Johansson
90 +21.0 secs 14 12
5 55 Mexico Mario Domínguez Herdez Competition 90 +22.2 secs 11 10
6 32 Canada Patrick Carpentier Team Player's 90 +22.7 secs 6 8
7 31 United States Ryan Hunter-Reay American Spirit Team Johansson 90 +25.7 secs 12 6
8 15 United Kingdom Darren Manning Walker Racing 90 +33.4 secs 10 5
9 34
Mario Haberfeld
Mi-Jack Conquest Racing 90 +48.6 secs 15 4
10 33 Canada Alex Tagliani Rocketsports Racing 89 + 1 Lap 3 3
11 7 Portugal Tiago Monteiro
Fittipaldi-Dingman Racing
88 + 2 Laps 16 2
12 20 Spain Oriol Servià Patrick Racing 87 Out of Fuel 8 1
13 27 France Patrick Lemarié
PK Racing
87 + 3 Lap 13 0
14 19 Switzerland Joël Camathias Dale Coyne Racing 84 + 6 Laps 18 0
15 9 Mexico Michel Jourdain Jr.
Team Rahal
83 Gearbox 1 2
16 2 France Sébastien Bourdais Newman/Haas Racing 70 Engine 5 0
17 4 Brazil Roberto Moreno Herdez Competition 36 Collision 9 0
18 5 Mexico Rodolfo Lavín Walker Racing 35 Collision 17 0
19 11 Malaysia Alex Yoong Dale Coyne Racing 32 Accident 19 0

Caution flags

Laps Cause
28–30 Lemarié (27) stalled on course
33–35 Yoong (11) contact
37–40 Lavín (5) & Moreno (4) contact

Lap leaders

Laps Leader
1–26 Paul Tracy
27–56 Michel Jourdain Jr.
57–61 Oriol Servià
62
Adrian Fernández
63–65 Sébastien Bourdais
66–83 Michel Jourdain Jr.
84–90 Paul Tracy
 
Driver Laps led
Michel Jourdain Jr. 48
Paul Tracy 33
Oriol Servià 5
Sébastien Bourdais 3
Adrian Fernández
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