The 1992 Daikyo IndyCar Grand Prix was the opening round of the 1992 PPG Indy Car World Series, held on 22 March 1992 on the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, Queensland, Australia.
The race was won by Emerson Fittipaldi driving a Penske PC21-92 Chevrolet-Ilmor B for Team Penske.
Qualifying results
Pos Nat Name Team Car Time 1 Al Unser Jr. Galles-Kraco Racing Galmer G92 Chevrolet-Ilmor A 1:38.744 2 Michael Andretti Newman-Haas Racing Lola T91/00 Ford XB Cosworth 3 Emerson Fittipaldi Team Penske Penske PC21-92 Chevrolet-Ilmor B 4 Bobby Rahal Rahal-Hogan Racing Lola T92/00 Chevrolet-Ilmor A 5 Rick Mears Team Penske Penske PC21-92 Chevrolet-Ilmor B 6 Mario Andretti Newman-Haas Racing Lola T91/00 Ford XB Cosworth 7 Eddie Cheever Chip Ganassi Racing Lola T91/00 Ford XB Cosworth 8 Scott Pruett Truesports Truesports 92C Chevrolet-Ilmor A 9 Scott Goodyear Walker Motorsport Lola T91/00 Chevrolet-Ilmor A 10 Danny Sullivan Galles-Kraco Racing Galmer G92 Chevrolet-Ilmor A 11 John Andretti Racing Team VDS Lola T92/00 Chevrolet-Ilmor A 12 Scott Brayton Dick Simon Racing Lola T92/00 Chevrolet-Ilmor A 13 Gregor Foitek Gilmore Racing Lola T92/00 Chevrolet-Ilmor A 14 Tony Bettenhausen Jr. Bettenhausen Racing Penske PC20-91 Chevrolet-Ilmor A 15 Fabrizio Barbazza Arciero Racing Lola T90/00 Buick 16 Ted Prappas P.I.G. Enterprises Lola T91/00 Chevrolet-Ilmor A 17 Jimmy Vasser Hayhoe Racing Lola T91/00 Chevrolet-Ilmor A 18 Éric Bachelart Dale Coyne Racing Lola T90/00 Cosworth DFS 19 Jovy Marcelo Euromotorsport Lola T91/00 Cosworth DFS 20 Buddy Lazier Leader Cards Racing Lola T90/00 Buick 21 Ross Bentley Dale Coyne Racing Lola T90/00 Cosworth DFS 22 Nicola Marozzo Euromotorsport Lola T91/00 Cosworth DFS 23 A. J. Foyt Walker Motorsport Lola T90/00 Cosworth DFS DNQ Hiro Matsushita Dick Simon Racing Lola T91/00 Chevrolet-Ilmor A
Race
Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/retired Grid Points 1 5 Emerson Fittipaldi Team Penske 65 2:20:32.477 3 20 2 4 Rick Mears Team Penske 65 +2.8 secs 5 16 3 12 Bobby Rahal Rahal-Hogan Racing 65 4 14 4 3 Al Unser Jr. Galles-Kraco Racing 65 1 13 5 18 Danny Sullivan Galles-Kraco Racing 65 10 10 6 8 John Andretti Racing Team VDS 65 11 8 7 2 Mario Andretti Newman-Haas Racing 65 6 6 8 9 Eddie Cheever Chip Ganassi Racing 64 + 1 lap 7 5 9 15 Scott Goodyear Walker Motorsport 63 + 2 laps 9 4 10 31 Ted Prappas P.I.G. Enterprises 62 + 3 laps 16 3 11 39 Ross Bentley Dale Coyne Racing 61 + 4 laps 21 2 12 30 Fabrizio Barbazza Arciero Racing 61 + 4 laps 15 1 13 16 Tony Bettenhausen Jr. Bettenhausen Racing 60 + 5 laps 14 14 50 Jovy Marcelo Euromotorsport 54 + 11 laps 19 15 47 Jimmy Vasser Hayhoe Racing 48 Electrical 17 16 21 Buddy Lazier Leader Cards Racing 47 + 18 laps 20 17 1 Michael Andretti Newman-Haas Racing 41 Broken header 2 1 18 10 Scott Pruett Truesports 23 Transmission 8 19 42 Nicola Marozzo Euromotorsport 22 Electrical 22 20 22 Scott Brayton Dick Simon Racing 22 Transmission 12 21 14 Gregor Foitek Gilmore Racing 19 Puncture 13 22 19 Éric Bachelart Dale Coyne Racing 16 Oil pressure 18 23 17 A. J. Foyt Walker Motorsport 2 Withdrawn 23 DNS 11 Hiro Matsushita Dick Simon Racing Wrecked in practice
Notes
Time of race 2:20:33.00 Average Speed 77.561 mph
External links Full Weekend Times & Results 1992 Daikyo IndyCar Grand Prix