1999 Medic Drug Grand Prix of Cleveland

1999 Cleveland

Race details
Race 9 of 20 in the 1999 CART season
Burke Lakefront Airport track layout
Date	June 27, 1999
Official name	1999 Medic Drug Grand Prix of Cleveland
Location	Burke Lakefront Airport Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Course	Temporary airport course 2.369 mi / 3.790 km
Distance	90 laps 213.21 mi / 341.1 km
Weather	Rain
Pole position
Driver	Juan Pablo Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Time	56.813
Fastest lap
Driver	Gil de Ferran (Walker Racing)
Time	58.790 (on lap 27 of 90)
Podium
First	Juan Pablo Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Second	Gil de Ferran (Walker Racing)
Third	Michael Andretti (Newman-Haas Racing)

The 1999 Medic Drug Grand Prix of Cleveland was the ninth round of the 1999 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on June 27, 1999, at the Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio.

Report

Race

Pole Sitter and championship leader Juan Pablo Montoya led the early stages of the race until it was struck by a heavy rain shower on lap 33. Multiple cars crashed into the wall or spun, and the race ran under caution while the rain stopped, with Montoya leading from Paul Tracy and Gil de Ferran. When the race went green, de Ferran passed Tracy and then Montoya to take the lead. After the drivers changed to slick tires, Montoya came back at de Ferran and passed him on a restart on lap 69. He was able to pull away and win, the race being stopped on the 2-hour time limit. De Ferran finished second, and Michael Andretti third after a slow second pitstop for Tracy.

Classification

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Juan Pablo Montoya	Chip Ganassi Racing	90	2:01:04.277	1	20+1+1
2	5	Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	90	+10.604	2	16
3	6	Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	90	+12.697	3	14
4	26	Paul Tracy	Team Green	90	+17.849	8	12
5	2	Al Unser Jr.	Team Penske	90	+19.209	14	10
6	8	Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	90	+19.754	4	8
7	33	Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	90	+20.596	6	6
8	18	Roberto Moreno	PacWest Racing	90	+23.702	5	5
9	22	Robby Gordon	Team Gordon	89	+1 Lap	24	4
10	10	Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	88	+2 Laps	25	3
11	15	Memo Gidley	Walker Racing	88	+2 Laps	21	2
12	11	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	88	+2 Laps	11	1
13	36	Gualter Salles	All American Racing	88	+2 Laps	26
14	71	Luiz Garcia Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	87	+3 Laps	27
15	20	P. J. Jones	Patrick Racing	86	+4 Laps	16
16	7	Max Papis	Team Rahal	86	+4 Laps	22
17	24	Scott Pruett	Arciero-Wells Racing	70	Engine	18
18	99	Greg Moore	Forsythe Racing	64	Exhaust	7
19	40	Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	63	Contact	12
20	25	Cristiano da Matta	Arciero-Wells Racing	37	Suspension	13
21	17	Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing	34	Contact	9
22	44	Tony Kanaan	Forsythe Racing	33	Contact	19
23	12	Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	33	Contact	15
24	3	Tarso Marques	Team Penske	32	Contact	23
25	27	Dario Franchitti	Team Green	19	Throttle	10
26	9	Hélio Castro-Neves	Hogan Racing	19	Linkage	17
27	19	Michel Jourdain Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	2	Transmission	20

Caution flags

Laps	Cause
35-50	Kanaan (44) contact, Vasser (12) contact, Marques (3) contact, Heavy rain
66-69	Fernández (40) contact

Lap Leaders

Laps Leader 1-30 Juan Pablo Montoya 31 Roberto Moreno 32 Juan Pablo Montoya 33-34 Roberto Moreno 35-57 Juan Pablo Montoya 58-61 Gil de Ferran 62 Paul Tracy 63 Michael Andretti 64-68 Gil de Ferran 69-90 Juan Pablo Montoya

Driver Laps led Juan Pablo Montoya 76 Gil de Ferran 9 Roberto Moreno 3 Michael Andretti 1 Paul Tracy 1

Point standings after race

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Juan Pablo Montoya	112
2	Gil de Ferran	87
3	Dario Franchitti	85
4	Michael Andretti	78
5	Greg Moore	69