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1998 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
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USA Long Beach Long Beach Street Circuit (1992-98).svg April 5 1998 1998 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach 3 19 CART Streets of Long BeachLong Beach, California, United States Temporary street circuit 1.586https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1998-long-beach-grand-prix/ 1998 Long Beach Grand Prix 9 May 2022 2.552 105 166.530 268.004 Dry Bryan Herta Team Rahal 0:50.945 USA Bobby Rahal Team Rahal 0:51.333 96 USA Alex Zanardi Chip Ganassi Racing Italy Dario Franchitti Team KOOL Green UK Bryan Herta Team Rahal USA 1997 1999
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 Long Beach Street Circuit. 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 ITA 1946 Alex Zanardi Chip Ganassi Racing 105 1:51:29.113 11 20 2 27 UK Dario Franchitti Team Green 105 +2.917 8 16 3 8 US Bryan Herta Team Rahal 105 +4.336 1 14+1 4 40 Mexico Adrián Fernández Patrick Racing 105 +5.885 3 12 5 21 Brazil Tony Kanaan Tasman Motorsports Group 105 +15.905 13 10 6 99 Canada Greg Moore Forsythe Racing 105 +19.357 14 8 7 18 UK Mark Blundell PacWest Racing Group 105 +21.158 23 6 8 12 US Jimmy Vasser Chip Ganassi Racing 105 +24.602 20 5 9 16 Brazil Hélio Castro-Neves Bettenhausen Racing 105 +37.374 15 4 10 17 Brazil Maurício Gugelmin PacWest Racing Group 105 +51.452 22 3 11 98 US P. J. Jones All American Racing 104 +1 Lap 25 2 12 20 US Scott Pruett Patrick Racing 104 +1 Lap 7 1 13 34 Brazil Gualter Salles Payton/Coyne Racing 104 +1 Lap 4 14 36 US Alex Barron All American Racing 103 +2 Laps 27 15 77 Germany Arnd Meier Davis Racing 102 +3 Laps 21 16 15 ITA 1946 Domenico Schiattarella Project Indy 101 Contact 28 17 7 US Bobby Rahal Team Rahal 101 +4 Laps 2 18 9 Finland JJ Lehto Hogan Racing 99 +6 Laps 16 19 24 Japan 1947 Hiro Matsushita Arciero-Wells Racing 98 +7 Laps 29 20 5 Brazil Gil de Ferran Walker Racing 94 Transmission 5 1 21 6 US Michael Andretti Newman-Haas Racing 55 Tire 6 22 3 Brazil André Ribeiro Team Penske 55 Oil leak 17 23 10 US Richie Hearn Della Penna Motorsports 53 Transmission 19 24 25 ITA 1946 Max Papis Arciero-Wells Racing 37 Contact 24 25 26 Canada Paul Tracy Team Green 19 Contact 9 26 11 Brazil Christian Fittipaldi Newman-Haas Racing 19 Contact 12 27 19 Mexico Michel Jourdain Jr. Payton/Coyne Racing 14 Contact 17 28 33 Canada Patrick Carpentier Forsythe Racing 8 Contact 26 29 2 US Al Unser Jr. Team Penske 0 Contact 10
Caution flags
Laps Cause1–3 Unser Jr. (2), Castroneves (16) contact15–18 Jourdain Jr. (19) contact20–23 Tracy (26), Fittipaldi (11) contact 26–28 Jones (98), Rahal (7), Andretti (6) contact 30–33 Matsushita (24), Salles (34) contact39–42 Papis (25), Barron (36) contact55–61 Andretti (6) contact
Lap leaders
Laps Leader1–20 Bryan Herta21–25 JJ Lehto26–39 Hélio Castroneves40–80 Gil de Ferran81–82 Hélio Castroneves83–92 Gil de Ferran93 Bryan Herta94–95 Dario Franchitti96 Adrián Fernández97–98 Greg Moore99–103 Bryan Herta104–105 Alex Zanardi Driver Laps ledGil de Ferran 51Bryan Herta 26Hélio Castroneves 16JJ Lehto 5Alex Zanardi 2Dario Franchitti 2Greg Moore 2Adrián Fernández 1
Point standings after race
PosDriverPoints 1 MEX Adrián Fernández 41 2 CAN Greg Moore 37 3 ITA 1946 Alex Zanardi 34 4 UK Dario Franchitti 25 5 USA Michael Andretti 21
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References
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