1998 Motorola 300

May 2025 February 2025 USA Gateway Gateway_Motorsports_Park_diagram.svg Gateway International Raceway May 23 1998 1998 Motorola 300 6 19 CART Gateway International RacewayMadison, Illinois Permanent oval course 1.25 2 236 295 472 Dry Greg Moore Forsythe Racing 25.757 Canada Jimmy Vasser Chip Ganassi Racing 26.567 26 USA Alex Zanardi Chip Ganassi Racing Italy Michael Andretti Newman-Haas Racing USA Greg Moore Forsythe Racing Canada The 1998 Motorola 300 was the sixth round of the 1998 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on May 23, 1998, on the Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois. Alex Zanardi came through from 11th on the starting grid to win the race, after a quick pitstop from the Ganassi crew got him out ahead of long-time leader Michael Andretti at the final cycle of stops.Zanardi Takes Motorola 300 The New York Times May 24, 1998 https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/24/sports/zanardi-takes-motorola-300.html May 25, 2025 Classification Race Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 Italy Alex Zanardi Chip Ganassi Racing 236 2:23:02.140 11 20 2 6 US Michael Andretti Newman-Haas Racing 236 +0.573 6 16+1 3 99 Canada Greg Moore Forsythe Racing 236 +1.526 1 14+1 4 12 US Jimmy Vasser Chip Ganassi Racing 236 +17.874 2 12 5 20 US Scott Pruett Patrick Racing 236 +18.311 17 10 6 5 Brazil Gil de Ferran Walker Racing 236 +18.723 12 8 7 16 Brazil Hélio Castro-Neves Bettenhausen Racing 236 +19.963 8 6 8 7 US Bobby Rahal Team Rahal 235 +1 Lap 20 5 9 9 Finland JJ Lehto Hogan Racing 235 +1 Lap 4 4 10 18 UK Mark Blundell PacWest Racing Group 233 +3 Laps 18 3 11 11 Brazil Christian Fittipaldi Newman-Haas Racing 233 +3 Laps 14 2 12 98 US P. J. Jones All American Racing 232 +4 Laps 21 1 13 24 USA Robby Gordon Arciero-Wells Racing 231 +5 Laps 13 14 36 US Alex Barron All American Racing 231 +5 Laps 22 15 33 Canada Patrick Carpentier Forsythe Racing 231 +5 Laps 16 16 17 Brazil Maurício Gugelmin PacWest Racing Group 231 +5 Laps 23 17 19 Mexico Michel Jourdain Jr. Payton/Coyne Racing 230 +6 Laps 25 18 40 Mexico Adrián Fernández Patrick Racing 206 Engine 10 19 2 US Al Unser Jr. Team Penske 169 Contact 9 20 3 Brazil André Ribeiro Team Penske 106 Transmission 27 21 77 West Germany Arnd Meier Davis Racing 104 Contact 26 22 25 Italy Max Papis Arciero-Wells Racing 104 Contact 24 23 8 US Bryan Herta Team Rahal 71 Handling 7 24 21 Brazil Tony Kanaan Tasman Motorsports Group 47 Contact 3 25 34 USA Dennis Vitolo Payton/Coyne Racing 14 Contact 28 26 26 Canada Paul Tracy Team Green 2 Contact 15 27 27 UK Dario Franchitti Team Green 0 Contact 5 28 10 US Richie Hearn Della Penna Motorsports 0 Contact 19 Caution flags Laps Cause1-11 Franchitti (27), Tracy (26), Carpentier (33), Hearn (10) contact14-21 Vitolo (34) contact48-60 Kanaan (21) contact 107-120 Meier (77), Papis (25) contact 172-179 Unser Jr. (2) contact 188-193 Barron (36) spin Lap Leaders Laps Leader1-42 Jimmy Vasser43-175 Michael Andretti176-236 Alex Zanardi Driver Laps ledMichael Andretti 133Alex Zanardi 61Jimmy Vasser 42 Point standings after race PosDriverPoints 1 ITA Alex Zanardi 87 2 CAN Greg Moore 86 3 MEX Adrián Fernández 55 4 USA Jimmy Vasser 51 5 USA Michael Andretti 49 References Motorola 300 Motorola 300 Motorola