1998 Miller Lite 200

1998 Mid-Ohio

Race details
Race 13 of 19 in the 1998 CART season
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
Date	August 9, 1998
Official name	1998 Miller Lite 200
Location	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio, United States
Course	Permanent road course 2.258 mi / 3.634 km
Distance	83 laps 187.414 mi / 301.622 km
Weather	Dry
Pole position
Driver	Dario Franchitti (Team KOOL Green)
Time	1:05.679
Fastest lap
Driver	Greg Moore (Forsythe Racing)
Time	1:08.287 (on lap 47 of 83)
Podium
First	Adrián Fernández (Patrick Racing)
Second	Scott Pruett (Patrick Racing)
Third	Bobby Rahal (Team Rahal)

The 1998 Miller Lite 200 was the thirteenth round of the 1998 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on August 9, 1998, at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. The race was notable for many crashes, including one involving Michael Andretti and P. J. Jones that sent the former into a series of barrel rolls, although he walked out unhurt. It was won by Adrián Fernández, his third career win and second of the season and giving Ford Cosworth their 300th career win. Also this marks the 88th and final podium for Bobby Rahal.

Classification

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	40	Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	83	1:53:39.270	5	20
2	20	Scott Pruett	Patrick Racing	83	+0.247	11	16
3	7	Bobby Rahal	Team Rahal	83	+2.417	16	14
4	17	Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing Group	83	+8.806	4	12+1
5	26	Paul Tracy	Team KOOL Green	83	+9.983	21	10
6	2	Al Unser Jr.	Marlboro Team Penske	83	+13.291	7	8
7	33	Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	83	+13.790	21	6
8	21	Tony Kanaan	Tasman Motorsports Group	83	+14.654	18	5
9	5	Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	83	+19.208	12	4
10	3	André Ribeiro	Marlboro Team Penske	83	+20.785	14	3
11	24	Robby Gordon	Arciero-Wells Racing	83	+21.269	25	2
12	1	Alex Zanardi	Chip Ganassi Racing	83	+27.994	13
13	11	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	83	+30.454	19
14	25	Max Papis	Arciero-Wells Racing	83	+31.000	24
15	9	JJ Lehto	Hogan Racing	82	+1 Lap	17
16	36	Alex Barron	All American Racing	81	+2 Laps	26
17	16	Hélio Castro-Neves	Bettenhausen Racing	80	Contact	20
18	77	Arnd Meier	Davis Racing	75	+8 Laps	27
19	18	Mark Blundell	PacWest Racing Group	70	Spun off	8
20	98	P. J. Jones	All American Racing	55	Contact	28
21	6	Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	55	Contact	10
22	99	Greg Moore	Forsythe Racing	52	Contact	6
23	34	Gualter Salles	Payton/Coyne Racing	35	Spun off	23
24	10	Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	30	Transmission	15
25	8	Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	2	Radiator	3
26	27	Dario Franchitti	Team KOOL Green	0	Contact	1	1
27	12	Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	0	Contact	2
28	19	Michel Jourdain Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	0	Contact	22

Notes

1. ^ – Alex Zanardi finished 12th, which would usually yield 1 point, but race officials docked him of the point for dangerous driving.

Caution flags

Laps	Cause
1-5	Franchitti (27), Vasser (12), Herta (8), Jourdan Jr. (19), Papis (25) contact
15	Meier (77) spin
37-40	Salles (34) spin
53-54	Barron (36) spin
58-63	Jones (98), Andretti (6), Blundell (18) contact

Lap Leaders

Laps Leader 1-29 Maurício Gugelmin 30-52 Greg Moore 53-57 Gil de Ferran 58-83 Adrián Fernández

Driver Laps led Maurício Gugelmin 29 Adrián Fernández 26 Greg Moore 23 Gil de Ferran 5

Point standings after race

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Alex Zanardi	190
2	Jimmy Vasser	122
3	Greg Moore	119
4	Adrián Fernández	110
5	Michael Andretti	92