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1999 Grand Prix Telemar Rio 200

The 1999 Grand Prix Telemar Rio 200 was the fifth round of the 1999 CART World Series Season, held on May 15, 1999, on the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Christian Fittipaldi won his first and only Pole Position of his career.

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Race

The race was delayed due to rain, and the drivers had to wait for the track to dry out. On the second attempt to start, Juan Pablo Montoya dived past front-row starters Christian Fittipaldi and Dario Franchitti to take the lead. The trio quickly pulled away from the rest of the field with Franchitti taking second from Fittipaldi at the first round of pit stops, only for Fittipaldi to reverse the order a few laps later by passing Franchitti on the track. Neither, despite staying within two seconds of Montoya, were able to give a serious challenge to him, the Colombian taking his third successive win. The battle for second eventually went to Franchitti who beat Fittipaldi with a quicker second pitstop.

Classification

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
4	COL Juan Pablo Montoya	Chip Ganassi Racing	108	1:36:32.233	3	20+1
27	GBR Dario Franchitti	Team Green	108	+1.736	2	16
11	BRA Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	108	+3.954	1	14+1
7	ITA Max Papis	Team Rahal	108	+4.930	13	12
44	BRA Tony Kanaan	Forsythe Racing	108	+7.036	7	10
33	CAN Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	108	+7.618	9	8
20	USA P. J. Jones	Patrick Racing	108	+8.057	16	6
99	CAN Greg Moore	Forsythe Racing	108	+8.304	10	5
3	BRA Tarso Marques	Team Penske	108	+10.688	8	4
5	BRA Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	108	+11.241	4	3
18	BRA Roberto Moreno	PacWest Racing	108	+11.717	23	2
2	USA Al Unser Jr.	Team Penske	108	+12.215	19	1
8	USA Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	108	+14.138	5
22	USA Robby Gordon	Team Gordon	108	+17.470	26
26	CAN Paul Tracy	Team Green	108	+20.214	12
19	MEX Michel Jourdain Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	107	+1 Lap	24
16	BRA Gualter Salles	Bettenhausen Racing	107	+1 Lap	21
71	BRA Luiz Garcia Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	102	+6 Laps	27
10	USA Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	101	Cooling	18
40	MEX Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	83	Contact	17
25	BRA Cristiano da Matta	Arciero-Wells Racing	81	Turbo	14
17	BRA Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing	61	Cooling	25
36	USA Alex Barron	All American Racing	58	Overheating	22
24	USA Scott Pruett	Arciero-Wells Racing	49	Turbo	20
9	BRA Hélio Castro-Neves	Hogan Racing	32	Turbo	11
6	USA Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	28	Engine	15
12	USA Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	23	Electrical	6

Caution flags

Laps	Cause
1	Field not aligned
30-36	Andretti (6) engine blow-up
50-55	Pruett (24) engine blow-up
85-90	Fernández (40) contact
91-95	Rain
98-102	Gordon (22), Jourdain Jr. (19) contact

Lap Leaders

Laps	Leader
1	Christian Fittipaldi
2-72	Juan Pablo Montoya
73	Christian Fittipaldi
74-76	Dario Franchitti
77-86	Al Unser Jr.
87-108	Juan Pablo Montoya

Driver	Laps led
Juan Pablo Montoya	93
Al Unser Jr.	10
Dario Franchitti	3
Christian Fittipaldi	2

Point standings after race

Pos	Driver	Points
1	COL Juan Pablo Montoya	66
2	UK Dario Franchitti	51
3	BRA Christian Fittipaldi	49
4	CAN Greg Moore	45
5	MEX Adrián Fernández	43

References

|Previous_year's_race = 1998 Rio 400 |Next_year's_race = 2000 Rio 200

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