1999 Budweiser/G.I. Joe's 200

The 1999 Budweiser/G.I. Joe's 200 was the eighth round of the 1999 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on June 20, 1999, on the Portland International Raceway in Portland, Oregon.

1999 Portland

Race details
Race 8 of 20 in the 1999 CART season
Portland International Raceway
Date	June 20, 1999
Official name	1999 Budweiser/G.I. Joe's 200
Location	Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon, United States
Course	Permanent road course 1.967 mi / 3.17 km
Distance	98 laps 192.766 mi / 310.66 km
Weather	Dry
Pole position
Driver	Juan Pablo Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Time	58.193
Fastest lap
Driver	Michael Andretti (Newman-Haas Racing)
Time	59.749 (on lap 91 of 98)
Podium
First	Gil de Ferran (Walker Racing)
Second	Juan Pablo Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Third	Dario Franchitti (Team KOOL Green)

Report

Race

Searching for his first career win, Hélio Castro-Neves took the lead at the start by going around the outside of polesitter Juan Pablo Montoya in Turn 1. Castro-Neves and Montoya built a gap to the rest of the field and raced on their own in the first stint, with Montoya taking the lead at the first round of pit stops. Castro-Neves stayed with him until an electrical failure slowed him down and ultimately made him retire. This left Montoya with a big lead, but a caution due to Richie Hearn's spin erased it, and Montoya then threw away the lead entirely by spinning at the restart. Gil de Ferran took the lead, but Montoya soon passed him and regained it back, but a slower second pit stop handed the lead back to de Ferran, with Montoya third behind Paul Tracy. Montoya immediately took a second from Tracy, with Dario Franchitti coming up to third. While Montoya, Franchitti, Tracy, and others were conserving fuel, de Ferran went flat out and built up a big enough lead to make a third pit stop for fuel and come out in front of Montoya. He took his first win in three years, with Montoya holding off Franchitti for the second.

Classification

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	98	1:47:44.560	3	20+1
2	4	Juan Pablo Montoya	Chip Ganassi Racing	98	+4.393	1	16+1
3	27	Dario Franchitti	Team Green	98	+4.996	12	14
4	40	Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	98	+13.568	5	12
5	26	Paul Tracy	Team Green	98	+20.293	6	10
6	8	Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	98	+27.931	4	8
7	18	Roberto Moreno	PacWest Racing	98	+28.450	11	6
8	7	Max Papis	Team Rahal	98	+30.068	10	5
9	33	Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	98	+30.388	8	4
10	6	Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	98	+41.911	14	3
11	25	Cristiano da Matta	Arciero-Wells Racing	98	+41.917	15	2
12	12	Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	98	+43.385	7	1
13	99	Greg Moore	Forsythe Racing	98	+44.888	13
14	11	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	98	+52.044	9
15	44	Tony Kanaan	Forsythe Racing	98	+59.048	17
16	2	Al Unser, Jr.	Team Penske	98	+59.689	26
17	22	Robby Gordon	Team Gordon	98	+59.973	20
18	3	Tarso Marques	Team Penske	97	+1 Lap	18
19	15	Memo Gidley	Walker Racing	97	+1 Lap	25
20	19	Michel Jourdain, Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	96	+2 Laps	24
21	20	P. J. Jones	Patrick Racing	95	+3 Laps	23
22	10	Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	95	+3 Laps	21
23	71	Luiz Garcia, Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	95	+3 Laps	27
24	24	Scott Pruett	Arciero-Wells Racing	43	Engine	19
25	17	Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing	42	Turbo	16
26	9	Hélio Castro-Neves	Hogan Racing	40	Electrical	2
27	36	Gualter Salles	All American Racing	10	Engine	22
28	16	Shigeaki Hattori	Bettenhausen Racing	8	Retired	28

Caution flags

Laps	Cause
48-51	Hearn (10) spin
52-54	Montoya (4) spin
60-62	Jones (20) spin

Lap Leaders

Laps Leader 1-30 Hélio Castro-Neves 31-50 Juan Pablo Montoya 51-54 Gil de Ferran 55-59 Juan Pablo Montoya 60-98 Gil de Ferran

Driver Laps led Gil de Ferran 43 Hélio Castro-Neves 30 Juan Pablo Montoya 25

Point standings after race

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Juan Pablo Montoya	90
2	Dario Franchitti	85
3	Gil de Ferran	71
4	Greg Moore	69
5	Adrián Fernández	65

References