1998 CART season

The 1998 CART season was the 20th season of the American racing series. The first race took place from March 13th to 15th in Homestead (USA); the final was held from October 30th to November 1st 1998 in Fontana (USA). Alex Zanardi won this season.

Race results

	date	City Country	Round	1st place	place 2	place 3
1	March, 15	Homestead	150	Michael Andretti	Greg Moore	Alex Zanardi
2	28th March	Motegi	201	Adrián Fernández	Al Unser Jr.	Gil de Ferran
3	April 5th	Long Beach	105	Alex Zanardi	Dario Franchitti	Bryan Herta
4th	April 27	Nazareth	225	Jimmy Vasser	Alex Zanardi	Greg Moore
5	10th of May	Rio de Janeiro	133	Greg Moore	Alex Zanardi	Adrián Fernández
6th	23. May	Gateway	236	Alex Zanardi	Michael Andretti	Greg Moore
7th	31. May	Milwaukee	200	Jimmy Vasser	Helio Castroneves	Al Unser Jr.
8th	June 7th	Detroit	72	Alex Zanardi	Adrián Fernández	Gil de Ferran
9	June 21st	Portland	98	Alex Zanardi	Scott Pruett	Bryan Herta
10	July 12	Cleveland	100	Alex Zanardi	Michael Andretti	Dario Franchitti
11	July 19	Toronto	95	Alex Zanardi	Michael Andretti	Jimmy Vasser
12	July 26th	Michigan	250	Greg Moore	Jimmy Vasser	Alex Zanardi
13	August 9	Mid Ohio	83	Adrián Fernández	Scott Pruett	Bobby Rahal
14th	August 16	Road America	50	Dario Franchitti	Alex Zanardi	Christian Fittipaldi
15th	September 6th	Vancouver	86	Dario Franchitti	Michael Andretti	Scott Pruett
16	13.september	Laguna Seca	83	Bryan Herta	Alex Zanardi	Tony Kanaan
17th	4th of October	Houston	70	Dario Franchitti	Alex Zanardi	Tony Kanaan
18th	October 18	Australia	62	Alex Zanardi	Dario Franchitti	Christian Fittipaldi
19th	November 1st	California	250	Jimmy Vasser	Greg Moore	Alex Zanardi

Championship final results

driver

Pl. driver Points 1. Alex Zanardi 285 2. Jimmy Vasser 169 3. Dario Franchitti 160 4th  Adrián Fernández 154 5. Greg Moore 141 6th Scott Pruett 121 7th Michael Andretti 112 8th. Bryan Herta 97 9. Tony Kanaan (R) 92 10. Bobby Rahal 82 11. Al Unser Jr. 72 12. Gil de Ferran 67

Pl. driver Points 13. Paul Tracy 61 14th Christian Fittipaldi 56 15th Maurício Gugelmin 49 16. Richie Hearn 47 17th Helio Castroneves (R) 36 Mark Blundell 36 19th Patrick Carpentier 27 20th JJ Lehto (R) 25th Massimiliano Papis 25th 22nd Andre Ribeiro 13 Robby Gordon 13 24. Michel Jourdain junior 5

Pl. driver Points 25th Arnd Meier 4th 26th PJ Jones 3 27. Alex Barron (R) 2 28. Gualter Salles 1 29 Vincenzo Sospiri (R) 0 Hiro Matsushita 0 Roberto Moreno 0 Domenico Schiattarella 0 Dennis Vitolo 0 Hideshi Matsuda 0

(R) = rookie

Rookie of the year

Pl.	nation	Points
1.	Tony Kanaan	92
2.	Helio Castroneves	36
3.	JJ Lehto	25th
4th	Alex Barron	2
5.	Vincenzo Sospiri	0

Nations Cup

Pl.	nation	Points
1.	United States	303
2.	Italy	286
3.	Brazil	203
4th	Canada	182
5.	Scotland	160
6th	Mexico	158
7th	Great Britain	36
8th.	Finland	25th
9.	Germany	4th
10.	Japan	0

Motors Cup

Pl.	nation	Points
1.	Honda	365
2.	Ford XB	293
3.	Mercedes	226
4th	Toyota	41

Constructors Cup

Pl.	nation	Points
1.	Reynard	409
2.	Swift	167
3.	Penske	72
4th	Lola	4th
5.	eagle	1