1998 Budweiser 500k explained

The 1998 Budweiser 500K was a CART race that took place at the Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi, Japan on March 28, 1998. It was the 2nd round of the 1998 CART season.

Race results

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Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	40	Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	201	1:57:12.016	2	21
2	2	Al Unser Jr.	Team Penske	201	+1.086	15	16
3	5	Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	201	+5.388	3	14
4	99	Greg Moore	Forsythe Racing	201	+7.923	5	12
5	26	Paul Tracy	Team Green	201	+8.150	16	10
6	21	Tony Kanaan	Tasman Motorsports Group	200	+1 Lap	10	8
7	12	Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	200	+1 Lap	1	6
8	27	Dario Franchitti	Team Green	200	+1 Lap	6	5
9	3	André Ribeiro	Team Penske	199	+2 Lap	8	4
10	18	Mark Blundell	PacWest Racing Group	199	+2 Laps	7	3
11	16	Hélio Castro-Neves	Bettenhausen Racing	198	+3 Laps	26	2
12	34	Gualter Salles	Payton/Coyne Racing	198	+3 Laps	13	1
13	25	Max Papis	Arciero-Wells Racing	197	+4 Laps	23
14	6	Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	195	+6 Laps	14
15	77	Arnd Meier	Davis Racing	195	+6 Laps	27
16	24	Hiro Matsushita	Arciero-Wells Racing	188	+13 Laps	30
17	7	Bobby Rahal	Team Rahal	185	Contact	17
18	43	Hideshi Matsuda	Della Penna Motorsports	185	+16 Laps	25
19	33	Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	163	Wheel Bearing	20
20	17	Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing Group	147	Wheel Bearing	11
21	20	Scott Pruett	Patrick Racing	146	Engine	12
22	19	Michel Jourdain Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	121	Engine	24
23	1	Alex Zanardi	Chip Ganassi Racing	118	Contact	4
24	36	Alex Barron	All American Racing	108	Transmission	28
25	11	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Hass Racing	98	Engine	19
26	15	Roberto Moreno	Project Indy	86	Transmission	22
27	10	Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	74	Engine	21
28	8	Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	49	Clutch	9
29	9	JJ Lehto	Hogan Racing	45	Electrical	18
30	98	P. J. Jones	All American Racing	16	Oil Leak	29