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 Cause10 Ribeiro (3) stalled on course12-14 Herta (8), Barron (36) contact

Lap Leaders

Laps Leader1-9 Michael Andretti10 Bryan Herta11-16 Greg Moore17-25 Michael Andretti26-27 Dario Franchitti28 JJ Lehto29 Bobby Rahal30-50 Dario Franchitti Driver Laps ledDario Franchitti 23Michael Andretti 18Greg Moore 6Bobby Rahal 1JJ Lehto 1Bryan Herta 1

Point standings after race PosDriverPoints 1 Alex Zanardi 206 2 Jimmy Vasser 126 3 Adrián Fernández 120 4 Greg Moore 119 5 Michael Andretti 93

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