1999 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

March 2026 February 2025 USA Long Beach File:Long Beach circuit Champ Car era.svg Long Beach track layout April 18 1999 1999 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach 3 20 CART Streets of Long BeachLong Beach, California, United States Temporary street circuit 1.824 2.935 85 155.04 249.51 Dry Tony Kanaan Forsythe Racing 1:01.109 Brazil Juan Pablo Montoya Chip Ganassi Racing 1:02.779 63 Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya Chip Ganassi Racing Colombia Dario Franchitti Team KOOL Green UK Bryan Herta Team Rahal USA 1998 2000 The 1999 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the third round of the 1999 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on April 18, 1999, on the streets of Long Beach, California.1999 Long Beach Grand Prix https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1999-long-beach-grand-prix/ Motorsport Database - Motor Sport Magazine 12 March 2023 This marks the first Long Beach Grand Prix without former Long Beach winners Bobby Rahal and Al Unser Jr. Rahal retired at the end of 1998, and Al Unser was injured in the inaugural race of the season. Report Race In qualifying, Tony Kanaan, the Rookie of the Year in 1998, took his first CART career pole after a close battle with Dario Franchitti. At the start, it was Bryan Herta who took the lead after passing both Kanaan and Franchitti at the first corner, but that did not last long, as both Kanaan and Franchitti passed Herta on the second lap. The duo pulled away and built a gap, whereas Herta was passed later in the stint by Juan Pablo Montoya. Montoya was running very quickly, and passed Franchitti at a restart later on and put pressure on Kanaan. As the laps went by, it was clear that Montoya was faster, and that Kanaan was under increasing pressure. On lap 46, the pressure told, as Kanaan made a mistake and crashed at Turn 6. Montoya took the lead and dominated the rest of the race to take his first career win ahead of Franchitti and Herta. Classification Race Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 4 COL Juan Pablo Montoya Chip Ganassi Racing 85 1:45:48.688 5 20 2 27 GBR Dario Franchitti Team Green 85 +2.805 2 16 3 8 USA Bryan Herta Team Rahal 85 +7.003 3 14 4 40 MEX Adrián Fernández Patrick Racing 85 +8.610 6 12 5 11 BRA Christian Fittipaldi Newman-Haas Racing 85 +8.831 11 10 6 5 BRA Gil de Ferran Walker Racing 85 +13.566 7 8 7 6 USA Michael Andretti Newman-Haas Racing 85 +15.594 13 6 8 99 CAN Greg Moore Forsythe Racing 85 +17.399 8 5 9 7 ITA Max Papis Team Rahal 85 +17.718 4 4 10 12 USA Jimmy Vasser Chip Ganassi Racing 85 +22.128 9 3 11 10 USA Richie Hearn Della Penna Motorsports 85 +23.621 24 2 12 20 USA P. J. Jones Patrick Racing 84 +1 Lap 15 1 13 18 GBR Mark Blundell PacWest Racing 84 +1 Lap 12 14 17 BRA Maurício Gugelmin PacWest Racing 84 +1 Lap 14 15 24 USA Scott Pruett Arciero-Wells Racing 84 +1 Lap 20 16 22 USA Robby Gordon Team Gordon 84 +1 Lap 21 17 33 CAN Patrick Carpentier Forsythe Racing 84 +1 Lap 17 18 19 MEX Michel Jourdain Jr. Payton/Coyne Racing 82 Fuel 23 19 9 BRA Hélio Castro-Neves Hogan Racing 76 +9 Laps 18 20 25 BRA Cristiano da Matta Arciero-Wells Racing 75 Contact 16 21 26 CAN Paul Tracy Team Green 48 Suspension 10 22 44 BRA Tony Kanaan Forsythe Racing 45 Contact 1 1+1 23 36 USA Alex Barron All American Racing 34 Brakes 22 24 71 BRA Luiz Garcia Jr. Payton/Coyne Racing 28 Off course 27 25 2 BRA Tarso Marques Team Penske 24 Contact 19 26 16 JPN Shigeaki Hattori Bettenhausen Racing 21 Contact 16 27 34 BRA Gualter Salles Payton/Coyne Racing 17 Wing 25 Caution flags Laps Cause24–26 Hattori (16) contact 28–31 Castro-Neves (9), Pruett (24), Marques (2) contact47–52 Kanaan (44) contact 56–57 Jones (20) spin78–81 da Matta (25) contact Lap leaders Laps Leader1 Bryan Herta2–45 Tony Kanaan46–85 Juan Pablo Montoya Driver Laps ledTony Kanaan 44Juan Pablo Montoya 40Bryan Herta 1 Point standings after race PosDriverPoints 1 CAN Greg Moore 39 2 MEX Adrián Fernández 33 3 BRA Gil de Ferran 33 4 USA Michael Andretti 32 5 UK Dario Franchitti 30 1998 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach 2000 Grand Prix of Long Beach Grand Prix of Long Beach References Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach