1998 Texaco/Havoline 200

1998 Road America

Race details
Race 14 of 19 in the 1998 CART season
Road America
Date	August 16, 1998
Official name	1998 Texaco/Havoline 200
Location	Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
Course	Permanent road course 4.048 mi / 6.515 km
Distance	50 laps 202.4 mi / 325.75 km
Weather	Temperatures reaching up to 73.4 °F (23.0 °C); wind speeds up to 12 miles per hour (19 km/h) [1]
Pole position
Driver	Michael Andretti  (Newman-Haas Racing)
Time	1:39.988
Fastest lap
Driver	Alex Zanardi  (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Time	1:41.874 (on lap 49 of 50)
Podium
First	Dario Franchitti  (Team KOOL Green)
Second	Alex Zanardi  (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Third	Christian Fittipaldi  (Newman-Haas Racing)

The 1998 Texaco/Havoline 200 was the fourteenth round of the 1998 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on August 16, 1998, at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Dario Franchitti won the race, his first career win in CART. The race was also notable for a crash in which Alex Barron ended up on top of Bryan Herta.

Classification

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Dario Franchitti	Team Green	50	1:35:30.767	6	20+1
2	1	Alex Zanardi	Chip Ganassi Racing	50	+7.102	11	16
3	11	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	50	+43.922	7	14
4	21	Tony Kanaan	Tasman Motorsports Group	50	+46.134	12	12
5	40	Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	50	+47.097	9	10
6	26	Paul Tracy	Team Green	50	+52.003	17	8
7	18	Mark Blundell	PacWest Racing Group	50	+52.167	15	6
8	7	Bobby Rahal	Team Rahal	50	+1:06.372	3	5
9	12	Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	50	+1:07.084	14	4
10	77	Arnd Meier	Davis Racing	50	+1:07.598	27	3
11	25	Max Papis	Arciero-Wells Racing	50	+1:14.329	19	2
12	24	Robby Gordon	Arciero-Wells Racing	50	+1:15.697	23	1
13	10	Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	50	+1:19.336	25
14	19	Michel Jourdain Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	50	+1:38.024	24
15	6	Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	49	Tyre/Contact	1	1
16	5	Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	43	Engine	5
17	34	Gualter Salles	Payton/Coyne Racing	41	Engine	20
18	9	JJ Lehto	Hogan Racing	32	Exhaust	18
19	17	Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing Group	29	Brakes	21
20	20	Scott Pruett	Patrick Racing	24	Engine	4
21	99	Greg Moore	Forsythe Racing	18	Transmission	8
22	98	P. J. Jones	All American Racing	14	Spun off	28
23	8	Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	10	Contact	2
24	36	Alex Barron	All American Racing	10	Contact	26
25	3	André Ribeiro	Team Penske	7	Engine	13
26	16	Hélio Castro-Neves	Bettenhausen Racing	2	Header	22
27	2	Al Unser Jr.	Team Penske	0	Contact	10
28	33	Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	0	Contact	16

Caution flags

Laps	Cause
10	Ribeiro (3) stalled on course
12-14	Herta (8), Barron (36) contact

Lap Leaders

Laps Leader 1-9 Michael Andretti 10 Bryan Herta 11-16 Greg Moore 17-25 Michael Andretti 26-27 Dario Franchitti 28 JJ Lehto 29 Bobby Rahal 30-50 Dario Franchitti

Driver Laps led Dario Franchitti 23 Michael Andretti 18 Greg Moore 6 Bobby Rahal 1 JJ Lehto 1 Bryan Herta 1

Point standings after race

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Alex Zanardi	206
2	Jimmy Vasser	126
3	Adrián Fernández	120
4	Greg Moore	119
5	Michael Andretti	93

References

1. "1998 Texaco/Havoline 200 weather information". Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved July 14, 2013.