1999 Honda Indy 300

1999 Surfers Paradise

Race details
Race 19 of 20 in the 1999 CART season
Map of the track
Date	17 October, 1999
Official name	Honda Indy 300
Location	Surfers Paradise Street Circuit Queensland, Australia
Course	Temporary Street Circuit 2.795 mi / 4.498 km
Distance	65 laps 181.675 mi / 292.370 km
Pole position
Driver	Dario Franchitti (Team Green)
Time	1:31.703
Fastest lap
Driver	Max Papis (Team Rahal)
Time	1:34.516 (on lap 44 of 65)
Podium
First	Dario Franchitti (Team Green)
Second	Max Papis (Team Rahal)
Third	Adrián Fernández (Patrick Racing)

The 1999 Honda Indy 300 was the nineteenth and penultimate round of the 1999 CART season, held on 17 October 1999 on the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia.

Qualifying results

Pos	Nat	Name	Team	Car	Time
1		Dario Franchitti	Team Green	Reynard 99i Honda	1:31.703
2		Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	Reynard 99i Ford XD	1:32.595
3		Scott Pruett	Arciero-Wells Racing	Reynard 99i Toyota	1:32.616
4		Paul Tracy	Team Green	Reynard 99i Honda	1:32.700
5		Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	Swift 010.c Ford XD	1:32.899
6		Juan Pablo Montoya	Chip Ganassi Racing	Reynard 99i Honda	1:33.018
7		Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	Reynard 99i Ford XD	1:33.072
8		Tony Kanaan	Forsythe Championship Racing	Reynard 99i Honda	1:33.233
9		Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing	Reynard 99i Mercedes-Benz	1:33.271
10		Cristiano da Matta	Arciero-Wells Racing	Reynard 99i Toyota	1:33.399
11		Max Papis	Team Rahal	Reynard 99i Ford XD	1:33.503
12		Greg Moore	Forsythe Championship Racing	Reynard 99i Mercedes-Benz	1:33.553
13		Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	Swift 010.c Ford XD	1:33.577
14		Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	Reynard 99i Honda	1:33.702
15		Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Championship Racing	Reynard 99i Mercedes-Benz	1:33.781
16		Hélio Castroneves	Hogan Racing	Lola B99/00 Mercedes-Benz	1:33.869
17		Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	Reynard 99i Honda	1:33.969
18		Michel Jourdain Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	Lola B99/00 Ford XD	1:34.074
19		Jan Magnussen	Patrick Racing	Reynard 99i Ford XD	1:34.099
20		Mark Blundell	PacWest Racing	Reynard 99i Mercedes-Benz	1:34.243
21		Memo Gidley	Payton/Coyne Racing	Reynard 99i Ford XD	1:34.309
22		Robby Gordon	Team Gordon	Swift 010.c Toyota	1:34.627
23		Naoki Hattori	Walker Racing	Reynard 99i Honda	1:34.847
24		Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	Reynard 99i Toyota	1:35.640
25		Andrea Montermini	All American Racers	Eagle 997 Toyota	1:36.101
26		Al Unser Jr.	Team Penske	Penske PC27B-99 Mercedes	1:37.066
27		Gualter Salles	Bettenhausen Motorsports	Reynard 99i Mercedes	1:37.677

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Dario Franchitti	Team Green	65	1:58:40.726	1	22
2	7	Max Papis	Team Rahal	65	+2.6 secs	11	16
3	40	Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	65	+7.4 secs	7	14
4	8	Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	65	+10.4 secs	2	12
5	6	Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	65	+10.4 secs	5	10
6	44	Tony Kanaan	Forsythe Championship Racing	65	+11.4 secs	8	8
7	26	Paul Tracy	Team Green	65	+11.7 secs	4	6
8	22	Robby Gordon	Team Gordon	65	+19.9 secs	22	5
9	24	Scott Pruett	Arciero-Wells Racing	65	+21.3 secs	3	4
10	16	Gualter Salles	Bettenhausen Motorsports	65	+26.1 secs	27	3
11	20	Jan Magnussen	Patrick Racing	65	+30.7 secs	19	2
12	19	Michel Jourdain Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	65	+33.0 secs	18	1
13	25	Cristiano da Matta	Arciero-Wells Racing	63	Mechanical	10
14	71	Memo Gidley	Payton/Coyne Racing	60	Mechanical	21
15	36	Andrea Montermini	All American Racers	60	Mechanical	19
16	4	Juan Pablo Montoya	Chip Ganassi Racing	48	Contact	6
17	99	Greg Moore	Forsythe Championship Racing	46	Mechanical	12
18	12	Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	44	Mechanical	17
19	18	Mark Blundell	PacWest Racing	33	Contact	23
20	15	Naoki Hattori	Walker Racing	33	Contact	20
21	9	Hélio Castroneves	Hogan Racing	28	Mechanical	16
22	2	Al Unser Jr.	Team Penske	22	Mechanical	26
23	10	Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	21	Mechanical	24
24	33	Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Championship Racing	20	Contact	15
25	11	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	3	Fire	13
26	17	Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing	1	Mechanical	9
27	5	Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	0	Contact	14

Notes

• Average Speed 91.849 mph

External links

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