The 1998 Motorola 300 was the sixth round of the 1998 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on May 23, 1998, on the Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois. Alex Zanardi came through from 11th on the starting grid to win the race, after a quick pitstop from the Ganassi crew got him out ahead of long-time leader Michael Andretti at the final cycle of stops.
Classification
Race Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 Alex Zanardi Chip Ganassi Racing 236 2:23:02.140 11 20 2 6 Michael Andretti Newman-Haas Racing 236 +0.573 6 16+1 3 99 Greg Moore Forsythe Racing 236 +1.526 1 14+1 4 12 Jimmy Vasser Chip Ganassi Racing 236 +17.874 2 12 5 20 Scott Pruett Patrick Racing 236 +18.311 17 10 6 5 Gil de Ferran Walker Racing 236 +18.723 12 8 7 16 Hélio Castro-Neves Bettenhausen Racing 236 +19.963 8 6 8 7 Bobby Rahal Team Rahal 235 +1 Lap 20 5 9 9 JJ Lehto Hogan Racing 235 +1 Lap 4 4 10 18 Mark Blundell PacWest Racing Group 233 +3 Laps 18 3 11 11 Christian Fittipaldi Newman-Haas Racing 233 +3 Laps 14 2 12 98 P. J. Jones All American Racing 232 +4 Laps 21 1 13 24 Robby Gordon Arciero-Wells Racing 231 +5 Laps 13 14 36 Alex Barron All American Racing 231 +5 Laps 22 15 33 Patrick Carpentier Forsythe Racing 231 +5 Laps 16 16 17 Maurício Gugelmin PacWest Racing Group 231 +5 Laps 23 17 19 Michel Jourdain Jr. Payton/Coyne Racing 230 +6 Laps 25 18 40 Adrián Fernández Patrick Racing 206 Engine 10 19 2 Al Unser Jr. Team Penske 169 Contact 9 20 3 André Ribeiro Team Penske 106 Transmission 27 21 77 Arnd Meier Davis Racing 104 Contact 26 22 25 Max Papis Arciero-Wells Racing 104 Contact 24 23 8 Bryan Herta Team Rahal 71 Handling 7 24 21 Tony Kanaan Tasman Motorsports Group 47 Contact 3 25 34 Dennis Vitolo Payton/Coyne Racing 14 Contact 28 26 26 Paul Tracy Team Green 2 Contact 15 27 27 Dario Franchitti Team Green 0 Contact 5 28 10 Richie Hearn Della Penna Motorsports 0 Contact 19
Caution flags Laps Cause1-11 Franchitti (27), Tracy (26), Carpentier (33), Hearn (10) contact14-21 Vitolo (34) contact48-60 Kanaan (21) contact 107-120 Meier (77), Papis (25) contact 172-179 Unser Jr. (2) contact 188-193 Barron (36) spin
Lap Leaders
Laps Leader1-42 Jimmy Vasser43-175 Michael Andretti176-236 Alex Zanardi Driver Laps ledMichael Andretti 133Alex Zanardi 61Jimmy Vasser 42
Point standings after race PosDriverPoints 1 Alex Zanardi 87 2 Greg Moore 86 3 Adrián Fernández 55 4 Jimmy Vasser 51 5 Michael Andretti 49
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