1999 Miller Lite 225

1999 Milwaukee

Race details
Race 7 of 20 in the 1999 CART season
Milwaukee Mile
Date	June 6, 1999
Official name	1999 Miller Lite 225
Location	Milwaukee Mile West Allis, Wisconsin, West Allis, United States
Course	Permanent oval course 1 mi / 1.6 km
Distance	225 laps 225 mi / 362.102 km
Weather	Temperatures reaching up to 89.6 °F (32.0 °C); wind speeds up to 25.1 miles per hour (40.4 km/h)[1]
Pole position
Driver	Hélio Castro-Neves (Hogan Racing)
Time	21.931
Fastest lap
Driver	Hélio Castro-Neves (Hogan Racing)
Time	23.517 (on lap 10 of 225)
Podium
First	Paul Tracy (Team KOOL Green)
Second	Greg Moore (Forsythe Racing)
Third	Gil de Ferran (Walker Racing)

The 1999 Miller Lite 225 was the seventh round of the 1999 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on June 6, 1999 on the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin.

Report

Race

After taking his first career pole, Hélio Castro-Neves^[2] led the early stages of the race but he then began to slow due to a boost failure and dropped back down the field and eventually retired. The lead went to Jimmy Vasser, but when he got stuck up behind traffic, he was passed by Dario Franchitti. Michael Andretti was charging up through the field, and soon took the lead for himself, until he ran over a crew member at the first round of pitstops. The crew member suffered minor injuries, but Andretti lost two laps in getting his car restarted, and another lap due to black flag. With Franchitti also penalized for running over an airhose and being sent to the back of the cars on the lead lap, Paul Tracy led, but before the stint was over, the Ganassi cars of Vasser and Juan Pablo Montoya both passed him. Montoya jumped Vasser at the next round of stops. They dominated most of the race after that, but Montoya had to pit for fuel with 15 laps left, and Vasser had to do the same 4 laps later. Tracy, helped by a caution period, was able to stretch his fuel and win ahead of Greg Moore, who was also able to do the same, and Gil de Ferran.

Classification

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Paul Tracy	Team Green	225	1:48:49.169	6	20
2	99	Greg Moore	Forsythe Racing	225	+5.880	3	16
3	5	Gil de Ferran	Walker Racing	225	+6.456	16	14
4	12	Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	225	+7.937	2	12
5	40	Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	225	+9.929	18	10
6	11	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	225	+11.251	13	8
7	27	Dario Franchitti	Team Green	225	+12.578	4	6
8	17	Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing	225	+15.223	12	5
9	33	Patrick Carpentier*	Forsythe Racing	224	+1 Lap	8	4
10	4	Juan Pablo Montoya*	Chip Ganassi Racing	224	+1 Lap	5	3+1
11	25	Cristiano da Matta	Arciero-Wells Racing	224	+1 Lap	7	2
12	18	Roberto Moreno	PacWest Racing	223	+2 Laps	9	1
13	7	Max Papis	Team Rahal	222	+3 Laps	17
14	36	Alex Barron	All American Racing	222	+3 Laps	10
15	6	Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	222	+3 Laps	11
16	19	Michel Jourdain, Jr.	Payton/Coyne Racing	222	+3 Laps	21
17	24	Scott Pruett	Arciero-Wells Racing	222	+3 Laps	15
18	44	Tony Kanaan	Forsythe Racing	221	+4 Laps	20
19	2	Al Unser, Jr.	Team Penske	221	+4 Laps	22
20	20	P. J. Jones	Patrick Racing	219	+6 Laps	14
21	10	Richie Hearn	Della Penna Motorsports	219	+6 Laps	19
22	34	Dennis Vitolo	Payton/Coyne Racing	212	+13 Laps	26
23	16	Shigeaki Hattori	Bettenhausen Racing	118	Contact	24
24	22	Robby Gordon	Team Gordon	83	Electrical	23
25	8	Bryan Herta	Team Rahal	81	Handling	25
26	9	Hélio Castro-Neves	Hogan Racing	30	Turbo boost	1	1

Notes

1. ^ – Patrick Carpentier and Juan Pablo Montoya were both penalized one lap for passing under yellow. This demoted Carpentier from 4th to 9th and Montoya from 6th to 10th.

Caution flags

Laps	Cause
1	Field not aligned
2-7	Jones (20) spin
62-73	Debris on track
121-130	Hattori (16) contact
211-220	Moreno (18) spin

Lap Leaders

Laps Leader 1-14 Hélio Castro-Neves 15-46 Jimmy Vasser 47-49 Dario Franchitti 50-65 Michael Andretti 66-105 Paul Tracy 106-124 Jimmy Vasser 125-208 Juan Pablo Montoya 209-212 Jimmy Vasser 213-225 Paul Tracy

Driver Laps led Juan Pablo Montoya 84 Jimmy Vasser 55 Paul Tracy 53 Michael Andretti 16 Hélio Castro-Neves 14 Dario Franchitti 3

Point standings after race

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Juan Pablo Montoya	73
2	Dario Franchitti	71
3	Greg Moore	69
4	Michael Andretti	61
5	Christian Fittipaldi	61

References

1. "1999 Miller Lite 225 weather information". Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2013-07-13.
2. The hyphen was dropped in 2000.