CART FedEx Champ Car World Series 1998 standings

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CART FedEx Champ Car World Series 1998 standings

Championship points standings for the CART FedEx Champ Car World Series 1998

Position	Driver	Team	Car	Engine	Tyres	Points
1.	Alex Zanardi	Chip Ganassi Racing	Reynard 98i	Honda 2.6 turbo	Firestone	285
2.	Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	Reynard 98i	Honda 2.6 turbo	Firestone	169
3.	Dario Franchitti	Team Kool Green	Reynard 98i	Honda 2.6 turbo	Firestone	160
4.	Adrian Fernández	Patrick Racing	Reynard 98i Reynard 97i	Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Firestone Firestone	154
5.	Greg Moore	Forsythe Racing	Reynard 98i	Mercedes-Benz 2.6 turbo	Firestone	140
6.	Scott Pruett	Patrick Racing	Reynard 98i Reynard 97i	Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Firestone Firestone	121
7.	Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	Swift 009.c	Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Goodyear	112
8.	Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	Reynard 98i	Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Firestone	97
9.	Tony Kanaan	Tasman Motorsports Group	Reynard 98i	Honda 2.6 turbo	Firestone	92
10.	Bobby Rahal	Team Rahal	Reynard 98i Reynard 97i	Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Firestone Firestone	82
11.	Al Unser, Jr.	Marlboro Team Penske	Penske PC-27	Mercedes-Benz 2.6 turbo	Goodyear	72
12.	Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	Reynard 98i	Honda 2.6 turbo	Goodyear	67
13.	Paul Tracy	Team Kool Green	Reynard 98i	Honda 2.6 turbo	Firestone	61
14.	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	Swift 009.c	Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Goodyear	56
15.	Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing Group	Reynard 98i	Mercedes-Benz 2.6 turbo	Firestone	49
16.	Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	Swift 009.c	Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Firestone	47
17.	Mark Blundell	PacWest Racing Group	Reynard 97i Reynard 98i	Mercedes-Benz 2.6 turbo Mercedes-Benz 2.6 turbo	Firestone Firestone	36
17.	Hélio Castroneves	Bettenhausen Racing	Reynard 97i Reynard 98i	Mercedes-Benz 2.6 turbo Mercedes-Benz 2.6 turbo	Goodyear Goodyear	36
19.	Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	Reynard 98i	Mercedes-Benz 2.6 turbo	Firestone	27
20.	Jyrki Järvilehto	Hogan Racing	Reynard 98i	Mercedes-Benz 2.6 turbo	Firestone	25
20.	Max Papis	Arciero-Wells Racing	Reynard 98i	Toyota 2.6 turbo	Firestone	25
22.	Robby Gordon	Arciero-Wells Racing	Reynard 98i Reynard 97i	Toyota 2.6 turbo Toyota 2.6 turbo	Firestone Firestone	13
22.	André Ribeiro	Marlboro Team Penske	Penske PC-27	Mercedes-Benz 2.6 turbo	Goodyear	13
24.	Michel Jourdain, Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	Reynard 97i Reynard 98i	Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Firestone Firestone	5
25.	Arnd Meier	Davis Racing	Lola T97/00 Lola T98/00	Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Goodyear Goodyear	4
26.	P. J. Jones	All American Racing	Reynard 98i Reynard 97i	Toyota 2.6 turbo Toyota 2.6 turbo	Goodyear Goodyear	3
27.	Alex Barron	All American Racing	Reynard 97i Reynard 98i Eagle 987	Toyota 2.6 turbo Toyota 2.6 turbo Toyota 2.6 turbo	Goodyear Goodyear Goodyear	2
28.	Gualter Salles	Payton/Coyne Racing	Reynard 97i	Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Firestone	1
	Hideshi Matsuda	Della Penna Motorsports	Swift 007.i	Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Firestone	0
	Hiro Matsushita	Arciero-Wells Racing	Reynard 98i	Toyota 2.6 turbo	Firestone	0
	Roberto Moreno	Project Indy, Newman-Haas Racing	Reynard 97i Swift 009.c	Mercedes-Benz 2.6 turbo Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Goodyear Goodyear	0
	Domenico Schiattarella	Project Indy	Reynard 97i	Mercedes-Benz 2.6 turbo	Goodyear	0
	Vincenzo Sospiri	All American Racing	Eagle 987	Toyota 2.6 turbo	Goodyear	0
	Dennis Vitolo	Payton/Coyne Racing	Reynard 97i	Cosworth XB 2.6 turbo	Firestone	0

	Driver	Number
Most race wins	Alex Zanardi	7
Most pole positions	Dario Franchitti	5
Most podium positions	Alex Zanardi	15
Most podium positions without a win	Scott Pruett	3
Most fastest race laps	Alex Zanardi	5
Youngest driver	Michel Jourdain, Jr.	21 y/o
Oldest driver	Bobby Rahal	45 y/o

Nationality of participating drivers

%	Country	Drivers	Number
32.4%	U.S.A.	Jimmy Vasser, Scott Pruett, Michael Andretti, Bryan Herta, Bobby Rahal, Al Unser, Jr., Richie Hearn, Robby Gordon, P. J. Jones, Alex Barron, Dennis Vitolo	11
23.5%	Brazil	Tony Kanaan, Gil de Ferran, Christian Fittipaldi, Maurício Gugelmin, Hélio Castroneves, André Ribeiro, Gualter Salles, Roberto Moreno	8
11.8%	Italy	Alex Zanardi, Max Papis, Vincenzo Sospiri, Domenico Schiattarella	4
8.8%	Canada	Greg Moore, Paul Tracy, Patrick Carpentier	3
5.9%	Great Britain	Dario Franchitti, Mark Blundell	2
5.9%	Mexico	Adrian Fernández, Michel Jourdain, Jr.	2
5.9%	Japan	Hiro Matsushita, Hideshi Matsuda	2
2.9%	Finland	Jyrki Järvilehto	1
2.9%	Germany	Arnd Meier	1

Individual driver statistics for the 1998 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series

Driver	Age	Races	Wins	Podiums	Poles	Fastest laps
Andretti, Michael	35 y/o	19	1	5	1	0
Barron, Alex	28 y/o	17	0	0	0	0
Blundell, Mark	32 y/o	19	0	0	0	0
Carpentier, Patrick	26 y/o	19	0	0	2	2
Castroneves, Hélio	23 y/o	19	0	1	0	1
de Ferran, Gil	30 y/o	19	0	2	0	0
Fernández, Adrian	35 y/o	19	2	4	1	0
Fittipaldi, Christian	27 y/o	18	0	2	0	1
Franchitti, Dario	25 y/o	19	3	6	5	0
Gordon, Robby	29 y/o	15	0	0	0	0
Gugelmin, Maurício	35 y/o	19	0	0	0	0
Hearn, Richie	27 y/o	19	0	0	0	0
Herta, Bryan	28 y/o	19	1	3	3	1
Jones, P. J.	29 y/o	15	0	0	0	0
Jourdain, Jr., Michel	21 y/o	19	0	0	0	0
Järvilehto, Jyrki	32 y/o	19	0	0	0	0
Kanaan, Tony	23 y/o	19	0	2	0	1
Matsuda, Hideshi	43 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Matsushita, Hiro	37 y/o	4	0	0	0	0
Meier, Arnd	25 y/o	19	0	0	0	0
Moore, Greg	23 y/o	19	2	6	4	3
Moreno, Roberto	39 y/o	3	0	0	0	0
Papis, Max	28 y/o	19	0	0	0	0
Pruett, Scott	38 y/o	19	0	3	1	1
Rahal, Bobby	45 y/o	19	0	1	0	1
Ribeiro, André	32 y/o	18	0	0	0	0
Salles, Gualter	27 y/o	6	0	0	0	0
Schiattarella, Domenico	30 y/o	1	0	0	0	0
Sospiri, Vincenzo	31 y/o	4	0	0	0	0
Tracy, Paul	29 y/o	19	0	0	0	0
Unser, Jr., Al	36 y/o	19	0	2	0	0
Vasser, Jimmy	32 y/o	19	3	5	2	2
Vitolo, Dennis	41 y/o	11	0	0	0	0
Zanardi, Alex	31 y/o	19	7	15	0	5

#	Date	Circuit	Winner	Second	Third	Pole	FL
1	1998-03-15	Homestead-Miami	Andretti	Moore	Zanardi	Moore
2	1998-03-28	Motegi	Fernández	Unser, Jr.	de Ferran	Vasser	Vasser
3	1998-04-05	Long Beach	Zanardi	Franchitti	Herta	Herta	Rahal
4	1998-04-27	Nazareth	Vasser	Zanardi	Moore		Moore
5	1998-05-10	Jacarepaguá	Moore	Zanardi	Fernández	Franchitti	Zanardi
6	1998-05-23	Gateway	Zanardi	Andretti	Moore	Moore	Vasser
7	1998-05-31	Milwaukee	Vasser	Castroneves	Unser, Jr.	Carpentier	Pruett
8	1998-06-07	Detroit	Zanardi	Fernández	de Ferran	Moore	Zanardi
9	1998-06-21	Portland	Zanardi	Pruett	Herta	Herta	Carpentier
10	1998-07-12	Cleveland	Zanardi	Andretti	Franchitti	Vasser	Herta
11	1998-07-19	Toronto	Zanardi	Andretti	Vasser	Franchitti	Fittipaldi
12	1998-07-26	Michigan	Moore	Vasser	Zanardi	Fernández	Carpentier
13	1998-08-09	Mid-Ohio	Fernández	Pruett	Rahal	Franchitti	Moore
14	1998-08-16	Road America	Franchitti	Zanardi	Fittipaldi	Andretti	Zanardi
15	1998-09-06	Vancouver	Franchitti	Andretti	Pruett	Franchitti	Castroneves
16	1998-09-13	Laguna Seca	Herta	Zanardi	Kanaan	Herta	Kanaan
17	1998-10-04	Houston	Franchitti	Zanardi	Kanaan	Moore	Zanardi
18	1998-10-18	Gold Coast	Zanardi	Franchitti	Fittipaldi	Franchitti	Zanardi
19	1998-11-01	Auto Club Speedway	Vasser	Moore	Zanardi	Pruett	Moore