1999 Molson Indy Toronto

The 1999 Molson Indy Toronto was the eleventh round of the 1999 CART season and took place on July 18, 1999 at the 2.824-kilometre (1.755 mi) Exhibition Place temporary street circuit in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Report

Race

Gil de Ferran took pole in qualifying by a considerable margin, but his lead did not last long as Dario Franchitti passed him at Turn 3 on the first lap. It was a lead which he was not going to relinquish. De Ferran ran second and Jimmy Vasser third early on, but the latter suffered from tyre problems and dropped down the order, with Christian Fittipaldi taking third. After the first pitstop, Roberto Moreno ran second behind Franchitti by following an alternate strategy, but it meant that he had to make his second stop earlier than others, and after the second round of stops, de Ferran took the place, with Fittipaldi being jumped by Paul Tracy. De Ferran however was sent to the back of the lead lap for hitting a tyre in the pit lane, putting him out of contention. Franchitti had no such problems and took his first win of the season ahead of teammate Tracy, with Fittipaldi taking the final step on the podium.

Classification

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Dario Franchitti	Team Green	95	1:56:27.550	2	20+1
2	26	Paul Tracy	Team Green	95	+2.624	6	16
3	11	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	95	+6.987	5	14
4	18	Roberto Moreno	PacWest Racing	95	+10.735	17	12
5	7	Max Papis	Team Rahal	95	+15.480	18	10
6	40	Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	95	+22.903	23	8
7	24	Scott Pruett	Arciero-Wells Racing	95	+24.256	11	6
8	12	Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	95	+33.394	4	5
9	2	Al Unser, Jr.	Team Penske	95	+35.109	25	4
10	20	P. J. Jones	Patrick Racing	95	+36.015	20	3
11	33	Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	95	+36.478	12	2
12	15	Memo Gidley	Walker Racing	95	+42.111	15	1
13	22	Robby Gordon	Team Gordon	95	+48.163	22
14	17	Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing	95	+51.827	16
15	8	Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	93	+2 Laps	9
16	10	Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	93	+2 Laps	21
17	44	Tony Kanaan	Forsythe Racing	92	Contact	7
18	71	Dennis Vitolo	Payton/Coyne Racing	82	Transmission	27
19	5	Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	71	Contact	1	1
20	99	Greg Moore	Forsythe Racing	66	Cooling	10
21	19	Michel Jourdain, Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	59	Contact	19
22	4	Juan Pablo Montoya	Chip Ganassi Racing	59	Contact	8
23	16	Shigeaki Hattori	Bettenhausen Racing	56	Spun off	26
24	25	Cristiano da Matta	Arciero-Wells Racing	29	Contact	13
25	36	Gualter Salles	All American Racing	25	Engine	24
26	6	Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	11	Contact	3
27	9	Hélio Castro-Neves	Hogan Racing	10	Transmission	14

Caution flags

Lap Leaders

Point standings after race

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Juan Pablo Montoya	113
2	Dario Franchitti	106
3	Christian Fittipaldi	96
4	Michael Andretti	95
5	Gil de Ferran	88

References