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1999 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

Long Beach, California, United States

The 1999 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the third round of the 1999 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on April 18, 1999, on the streets of Long Beach, California.

This marks the first Long Beach Grand Prix without former Long Beach winners Bobby Rahal and Al Unser Jr. Rahal retired at the end of 1998, and Al Unser was injured in the inaugural race of the season.

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Race

In qualifying, Tony Kanaan, the Rookie of the Year in 1998, took his first CART career pole after a close battle with Dario Franchitti. At the start, it was Bryan Herta who took the lead after passing both Kanaan and Franchitti at the first corner, but that did not last long, as both Kanaan and Franchitti passed Herta on the second lap. The duo pulled away and built a gap, whereas Herta was passed later in the stint by Juan Pablo Montoya. Montoya was running very quickly, and passed Franchitti at a restart later on and put pressure on Kanaan. As the laps went by, it was clear that Montoya was faster, and that Kanaan was under increasing pressure. On lap 46, the pressure told, as Kanaan made a mistake and crashed at Turn 6. Montoya took the lead and dominated the rest of the race to take his first career win ahead of Franchitti and Herta.

Classification

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
4	COL Juan Pablo Montoya	Chip Ganassi Racing	85	1:45:48.688	5	20
27	GBR Dario Franchitti	Team Green	85	+2.805	2	16
8	USA Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	85	+7.003	3	14
40	MEX Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	85	+8.610	6	12
11	BRA Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	85	+8.831	11	10
5	BRA Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	85	+13.566	7	8
6	USA Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	85	+15.594	13	6
99	CAN Greg Moore	Forsythe Racing	85	+17.399	8	5
7	ITA Max Papis	Team Rahal	85	+17.718	4	4
12	USA Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	85	+22.128	9	3
10	USA Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	85	+23.621	24	2
20	USA P. J. Jones	Patrick Racing	84	+1 Lap	15	1
18	GBR Mark Blundell	PacWest Racing	84	+1 Lap	12
17	BRA Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing	84	+1 Lap	14
24	USA Scott Pruett	Arciero-Wells Racing	84	+1 Lap	20
22	USA Robby Gordon	Team Gordon	84	+1 Lap	21
33	CAN Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	84	+1 Lap	17
19	MEX Michel Jourdain Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	82	Fuel	23
9	BRA Hélio Castro-Neves	Hogan Racing	76	+9 Laps	18
25	BRA Cristiano da Matta	Arciero-Wells Racing	75	Contact	16
26	CAN Paul Tracy	Team Green	48	Suspension	10
44	BRA Tony Kanaan	Forsythe Racing	45	Contact	1	1+1
36	USA Alex Barron	All American Racing	34	Brakes	22
71	BRA Luiz Garcia Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	28	Off course	27
2	BRA Tarso Marques	Team Penske	24	Contact	19
16	JPN Shigeaki Hattori	Bettenhausen Racing	21	Contact	16
34	BRA Gualter Salles	Payton/Coyne Racing	17	Wing	25

Caution flags

Laps	Cause
24–26	Hattori (16) contact
28–31	Castro-Neves (9), Pruett (24), Marques (2) contact
47–52	Kanaan (44) contact
56–57	Jones (20) spin
78–81	da Matta (25) contact

Lap leaders

Laps	Leader
1	Bryan Herta
2–45	Tony Kanaan
46–85	Juan Pablo Montoya

Driver	Laps led
Tony Kanaan	44
Juan Pablo Montoya	40
Bryan Herta	1

Point standings after race

Pos	Driver	Points
1	CAN Greg Moore	39
2	MEX Adrián Fernández	33
3	BRA Gil de Ferran	33
4	USA Michael Andretti	32
5	UK Dario Franchitti	30

References

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