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1998 Budweiser 500K

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CART race number 2 of 19
Saturday, March 28, 1998 at Twin Ring Motegi Superspeedway, Motegi City, Japan
201 laps on a 1.549 mile paved track (311.349 miles)

Time of race: 1:57:12
Average speed: 159.393 mph
Pole speed: no time trials

Cautions: 3 for 37 laps
Margin of victory: 1.086 sec
Attendance: n/a
Lead changes: 13

Glossary 1998 CART results / 1998 standings

Pos	St	#	Driver	Sponsor / Owner	Chass./Eng.	Laps	Money	Status	Led	Pts
1	2	40	Adrian Fernandez	Tecate / Quaker State / Labatt's (Pat Patrick)	Reynard / Ford	201	100000	running	102	21
2	15	2	Al Unser, Jr.	Marlboro (Roger Penske)	Penske / Mercedes	201	60000	running	26	16
3	3	5	Gil de Ferran	Valvoline / Cummins (Derrick Walker)	Reynard / Honda	201	50000	running	4	14
4	5	99	Greg Moore	Player's / Indeck (Gerry Forsythe)	Reynard / Mercedes	201	35000	running	4	12
5	6	26	Paul Tracy	Kool (Team Green)	Reynard / Honda	201	30000	running	4	10
6	7	21	Tony Kanaan	LCI (Steve Horne)	Reynard / Honda	200	25000	running	0	8
7	1	12	Jimmy Vasser	Target (Chip Ganassi)	Reynard / Honda	200	22500	running	44	6
8	6	27	Dario Franchitti	Kool (Team Green)	Reynard / Honda	200	20000	running	0	5
9	8	3	Andre Ribeiro	Marlboro (Roger Penske)	Penske / Mercedes	199	17500	running	0	4
10	7	18	Mark Blundell	Motorola / PacWest (Bruce McCaw)	Reynard / Mercedes	199	16500	running	0	3
11	26	16	Helio Castroneves	Alumax Aluminum (Tony Bettenhausen, Jr.)	Reynard / Mercedes	198	15250	running	0	2
12	13	34	Gualter Salles	Payton-Coyne Racing (Dale Coyne)	Reynard / Ford	198	14250	running	0	1
13	23	25	Max Papis	MCI (Arciero Wells Racing)	Reynard / Toyota	197	13250	running	0
14	14	6	Michael Andretti	Kmart / Texaco-Havoline (Newman Haas Racing)	Swift / Ford	195	12500	running	17
15	27	77	Arnd Meier	BAAN Business Software (Davis Racing)	Lola / Ford	195	12000	running	0
16	30	24	Hiro Matsushita	Panasonic / Duskin (Arciero Wells Racing)	Reynard / Toyota	188	11075	running	0
17	17	7	Bobby Rahal	Miller Lite (Bobby Rahal)	Reynard / Ford	185	11500	crash	0
18	25	43	Hideshi Matsuda	BMB Mini-Juke (Della Penna Motorsports)	Swift / Ford	185	11250	running	0
19	20	33	Patrick Carpentier	Player's / Indeck (Gerry Forsythe)	Reynard / Mercedes	163	11000	wheel bearing	0
20	11	17	Mauricio Gugelmin	Hollywood Cigarettes / PacWest (Bruce McCaw)	Reynard / Mercedes	147	10750	wheel bearing	0
21	12	20	Scott Pruett	Visteon (Pat Patrick)	Reynard / Ford	146		overheating	0
22	24	19	Michel Jourdain, Jr.	Herdez / Viva Mexico! (Dale Coyne)	Reynard / Ford	121		engine	0
23	4	1	Alex Zanardi	Target (Chip Ganassi)	Reynard / Honda	118		crash	0
24	28	36	Alex Barron	Castrol / Degree / Toyota (Dan Gurney)	Reynard / Toyota	108		transmission	0
25	19	11	Christian Fittipaldi	Kmart (Newman Haas Racing)	Swift / Ford	98		engine	0
26	22	15	Roberto Moreno	Hawaiian Tropic (Andreas Leberle)	Reynard / Mercedes	86		transmission	0
27	21	10	Richie Hearn	Budweiser / Ralph's (Della Penna Motorsports)	Swift / Ford	74		engine	0
28	9	8	Bryan Herta	Shell (Bobby Rahal)	Reynard / Ford	49		clutch	0
29	18	9	J.J. Lehto	Hogan Motor Leasing (Hogan Racing)	Reynard / Mercedes	45		electrical	0
30	29	98	P.J. Jones	Castrol / Degree / Toyota (Dan Gurney)	Reynard / Toyota	16		oil leak	0

Condition	From Lap	To Lap	# Of Laps	Reason
Caution flag breakdown:
	1	100	100
	101	115	15	#11 smoking
	116	119	4
	120	130	11	#1 accident turn 2
	131	185	55
	186	196	11	#7 accident turn 2
	197	201	5
Percent of race run under caution: 18.4% Average green flag run: 41.0 laps

Leader	From Lap	To Lap	# Of Laps
Lap leader breakdown:
Adrian Fernandez	1	22	22
Jimmy Vasser	23	44	22
Adrian Fernandez	45	47	3
Jimmy Vasser	48	69	22
Michael Andretti	70	86	17
Al Unser, Jr.	87	95	9
Adrian Fernandez	96	99	4
Al Unser, Jr.	100	116	17
Adrian Fernandez	117	159	43
Paul Tracy	160	163	4
Gil de Ferran	164	167	4
Greg Moore	168	171	4
Adrian Fernandez	172	201	30

Rank	Driver	Points	Diff
Points Standings after this race:
1	Adrian Fernandez	29
1	Greg Moore	29	0
3	Michael Andretti	21	-8
4	Gil de Ferran	20	-9
5	Al Unser, Jr.	16	-13
6	Alex Zanardi	14	-15
7	Christian Fittipaldi	12	-17
8	Paul Tracy	10	-19
8	Scott Pruett	10	-19
10	Dario Franchitti	9	-20
11	Tony Kanaan	8	-21
12	Jimmy Vasser	6	-23
13	Bryan Herta	5	-24
14	Andre Ribeiro	4	-25
14	Mark Blundell	4	-25
16	Mauricio Gugelmin	3	-26
17	Patrick Carpentier	2	-27
17	Helio Castroneves	2	-27
19	Gualter Salles	1	-28