1998 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
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Race details | |
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Race 3 of 19 in the 1998 CART season | |
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Date | April 5, 1998 |
Official name | 1998 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach |
Location | Streets of Long Beach Long Beach, California, United States |
Course | Temporary street circuit 1.586[1] mi / 2.552 km |
Distance | 105 laps 166.530 mi / 268.004 km |
Weather | Dry |
Pole position | |
Driver | Bryan Herta (Team Rahal) |
Time | 50.945 |
Fastest lap | |
Driver | Bobby Rahal (Team Rahal) |
Time | 51.333 (on lap 96 of 105) |
Podium | |
First | Alex Zanardi (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
Second | Dario Franchitti (Team KOOL Green) |
Third | Bryan Herta (Team Rahal) |
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 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
[edit]Race
[edit]Caution flags
[edit]Laps | Cause |
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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 | Papis (25), Barron (36) contact |
55–61 | Andretti (6) contact |
Lap leaders
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Point standings after race
[edit]Pos | Driver | Points |
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1 | ![]() | 41 |
2 | ![]() | 37 |
3 | ![]() | 34 |
4 | ![]() | 25 |
5 | ![]() | 21 |
References
[edit]- ^ "1998 Long Beach Grand Prix". Retrieved 9 May 2022.