1998 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

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.

1998 Long Beach

Race details
Race 3 of 19 in the 1998 CART season
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 1.593 mi / 2.563 km
Distance	105 laps 167.280 mi / 269.211 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)

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	Alex Zanardi	Chip Ganassi Racing	105	1:51:29.113	11	20
2	27	Dario Franchitti	Team Green	105	+2.917	8	16
3	8	Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	105	+4.336	1	14+1
4	40	Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	105	+5.885	3	12
5	21	Tony Kanaan	Tasman Motorsports Group	105	+15.905	13	10
6	99	Greg Moore	Forsythe Racing	105	+19.357	14	8
7	18	Mark Blundell	PacWest Racing Group	105	+21.158	23	6
8	12	Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	105	+24.602	20	5
9	16	Hélio Castro-Neves	Bettenhausen Racing	105	+37.374	15	4
10	17	Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing Group	105	+51.452	22	3
11	98	P. J. Jones	All American Racing	104	+1 Lap	25	2
12	20	Scott Pruett	Patrick Racing	104	+1 Lap	7	1
13	34	Gualter Salles	Payton/Coyne Racing	104	+1 Lap	4
14	36	Alex Barron	All American Racing	103	+2 Laps	27
15	77	Arnd Meier	Davis Racing	102	+3 Laps	21
16	15	Domenico Schiattarella	Project Indy	101	Contact	28
17	7	Bobby Rahal	Team Rahal	101	+4 Laps	2
18	9	JJ Lehto	Hogan Racing	99	+6 Laps	16
19	24	Hiro Matsushita	Arciero-Wells Racing	98	+7 Laps	29
20	5	Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	94	Transmission	5	1
21	6	Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	55	Tyre	6
22	3	André Ribeiro	Team Penske	55	Oil leak	17
23	10	Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	53	Transmission	19
24	25	Max Papis	Arciero-Wells Racing	37	Contact	24
25	26	Paul Tracy	Team Green	19	Contact	9
26	11	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	19	Contact	12
27	19	Michel Jourdain Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	14	Contact	17
28	33	Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	8	Contact	26
29	2	Al Unser, Jr.	Team Penske	0	Contact	10

Caution flags

Laps	Cause
1–3	Unser, Jr. (2), Castro-Neves (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

Laps Leader 1–20 Bryan Herta 21–25 JJ Lehto 26–39 Hélio Castro-Neves 40–80 Gil de Ferran 81–82 Hélio Castro-Neves 83–92 Gil de Ferran 93 Bryan Herta 94–95 Dario Franchitti 96 Adrián Fernández 97–98 Greg Moore 99–103 Bryan Herta 104–105 Alex Zanardi

Driver Laps led Gil de Ferran 51 Bryan Herta 26 Hélio Castro-Neves 16 JJ Lehto 5 Alex Zanardi 2 Dario Franchitti 2 Greg Moore 2 Adrián Fernández 1

Point standings after race

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Adrián Fernández	41
2	Greg Moore	37
3	Alex Zanardi	34
4	Dario Franchitti	25
5	Michael Andretti	21

Preceded by 1997 Grand Prix of Long Beach	Grand Prix of Long Beach	Succeeded by 1999 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach