1998 Atlantic Championship
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The 1998 Toyota Atlantic Championship season was contested over 13 rounds. All teams had to use Toyota engines. The KOOL Toyota Atlantic Championship Drivers' Champion was Lee Bentham driving for Forsythe Racing.
Calendar
| Race No | Track | State | Date | Laps | Lap Distance (km) | Total Distance (km) | Time | Speed | Winner | Pole Position | Most Leading Laps | Fastest Race Lap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long Beach | California | April 4, 1998 | 38 | 2.533 | 96.595 | 0'58:34.554 | 98.943 km/h | Memo Gidley | Buddy Rice | Memo Gidley | Andrew Bordin |
| 2 | Nazareth | Pennsylvania | April 25, 1998 | 60 | 1.5223978 | 91.343868 | 0'27:27.352 | 199.616 km/h | Buddy Rice | Buddy Rice | Buddy Rice | Buddy Rice |
| 3 | Madison | Illinois | May 22, 1998 | 27 | 2.011625 | 54.313875 | 0'28:19.198 | 115.072 km/h | Memo Gidley | Anthony Lazzaro | Anthony Lazzaro | Anthony Lazzaro |
| 4 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | May 30, 1998 | 60 | 1.6607976 | 99.647856 | 0'32:29.552 | 184.008 km/h | Memo Gidley | Memo Gidley | Memo Gidley | Derek Hill |
| 5 | Montréal | Script error: No such module "flag". | June 6, 1998 | 27 | 4.4207471 | 119.3601717 | 0'44:32.839 | 160.764 km/h | Lee Bentham | Lee Bentham | Alexandre Tagliani | Lee Bentham |
| 6 | Cleveland | Ohio | July 11, 1998 | 22 | 3.3891858 | 74.5620876 | 0'31:54.902 | 140.176 km/h | Kenny Wilden | Memo Gidley | Memo Gidley | Kenny Wilden |
| 7 | Toronto | Script error: No such module "flag". | July 18, 1998 | 39 | 2.7696053 | 108.0146067 | 0'59:04.390 | 109.709 km/h | Alexandre Tagliani | Lee Bentham | Alexandre Tagliani | Lee Bentham |
| 8 | Trois-Rivières | Script error: No such module "flag". | August 2, 1998 | 45 | 2.4477453 | 110.1485385 | 0'49:23.054 | 133.826 km/h | Alexandre Tagliani | Alexandre Tagliani | Alexandre Tagliani | Alexandre Tagliani |
| 9 | Lexington | Ohio | August 9, 1998 | 25 | 3.6337994 | 90.844985 | 0'33:03.166 | 164.909 km/h | Lee Bentham | Alexandre Tagliani | Lee Bentham | Anthony Lazzaro |
| 10 | Elkhart Lake | Wisconsin | August 16, 1998 | 15 | 6.4372 | 96.558 | 0'37:07.249 | 156.071 km/h | Anthony Lazzaro | Anthony Lazzaro | Anthony Lazzaro | Andrew Bordin |
| 11 | Vancouver | Script error: No such module "flag". | September 5, 1998 | 38 | 2.8999586 | 110.1984268 | 1'00:59.908 | 108.395 km/h | Andrew Bordin | Jeff Shafer | Matt Sielsky | Rino Mastronardi |
| 12 | Monterey | California | September 12, 1998 | 28 | 3.6016134 | 100.8451752 | 0'44:11.726 | 136.908 km/h | Anthony Lazzaro | Lee Bentham | Lee Bentham | Alexandre Tagliani |
| 13 | Houston | Texas | October 4, 1998 | 30 | 2.4574011 | 73.722033 | 0'41:26.827 | 106.722 km/h | Anthony Lazzaro | Alexandre Tagliani | Anthony Lazzaro | David Rutledge |
Note:
Race 3 stopped earlier due to rain, originally scheduled over 50 laps.
Final points standings
Driver
For every race the points were awarded: 20 points to the winner, 16 for runner-up, 14 for third place, 12 for fourth place, 11 for fifth place, winding down to 1 point for 15th place. Lower placed drivers did not award points. Additional points were awarded to the pole winner (1 point) and to the driver leading the most laps (1 point). C2-class drivers were not able to score points in the main class.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lee Bentham | Script error: No such module "flag". | Forsythe Racing | Ralt | 163 | - | 10 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Forsythe Racing | Swift | 16 | 21 | 11 | 17 | 14 | 21 | - | 10 | 18 | 14 | |||||||
| 2 | Andrew Bordin | Script error: No such module "flag". | BDJS | Ralt | 139 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 11 | ||||||
| BDJS | Swift | - | 11 | - | 20 | 9 | 12 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Memo Gidley | Script error: No such module "flag". | Lynx Racing | Ralt | 134 | 21 | 12 | 20 | 21 | - | ||||||||
| Lynx Racing | Swift | 2 | 10 | 12 | - | 16 | 9 | - | 11 | |||||||||
| 4 | Anthony Lazzaro | Script error: No such module "flag". | PPI Motorsports | Swift | 133 | - | - | 15 | 10 | 6 | 16 | - | 16 | 7 | 22 | - | 20 | 21 |
| 5 | Alexandre Tagliani | Script error: No such module "flag". | Forsythe Racing | Ralt | 130 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Forsythe Racing | Swift | - | 6 | 14 | 17 | 12 | 21 | 22 | 1 | 2 | - | 12 | 17 | |||||
| 6 | Matt Sielsky | Script error: No such module "flag". | D&L Racing | Ralt | 109 | - | 14 | 9 | 12 | 12 | ||||||||
| D&L Racing | Swift | 6 | 12 | 8 | 14 | - | 15 | - | 7 | |||||||||
| 7 | Buddy Rice | Script error: No such module "flag". | Lynx Racing | Ralt | 108 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 5 | 14 | ||||||||
| Lynx Racing | Swift | 14 | - | - | 16 | - | 11 | 11 | - | |||||||||
| 8 | Kenny Wilden | Script error: No such module "flag". | Shank Racing | Swift | 92 | 8 | - | - | - | 10 | 20 | 14 | 9 | - | 14 | 3 | 14 | - |
| 9 | David Rutledge | Script error: No such module "flag". | Binder Racing | Ralt | 70 | - | 11 | |||||||||||
| Binder Racing | Swift | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 8 | - | 8 | 10 | ||||||
| 10 | Rob MacDonald | Script error: No such module "flag". | P-1 Racing | Swift | 62 | 3 | - | - | 7 | 8 | - | 9 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 3 | - |
| 11 | Rino Mastronardi | Script error: No such module "flag". | Condor Motorsports | Swift | 56 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 7 | 12 | - | 16 | 10 | - |
| 12 | David Pook | Script error: No such module "flag". | Hylton Motorsports | Swift | 51 | - | 9 | 10 | - | - | 9 | - | 6 | 10 | 7 | - | - | - |
| 13 | Derek Hill | Script error: No such module "flag". | P-1 Racing | Swift | 47 | 12 | - | - | 6 | - | 7 | 4 | - | 6 | 11 | 1 | - | - |
| 14 | Mike Conte | Script error: No such module "flag". | World Speed Motorsports | Swift | 41 | - | 3 | - | - | - | 10 | 6 | 7 | - | ||||
| World Speed Motorsports | Ralt | 8 | 5 | 2 | - | |||||||||||||
| 15 | Case Montgomery | Script error: No such module "flag". | Condor Motorsports | Swift | 39 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | - | 10 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 6 |
| 16 | Michael David | Script error: No such module "flag". | PDR Enterprises | Ralt | 37 | 10 | 6 | - | - | 9 | - | - | 5 | 2 | - | 5 | - | - |
| 17 | Andrea Delorenzi | Script error: No such module "flag". | RDS Motorsports | Ralt | 35 | 14 | 1 | - | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | ||||
| RDS Motorsports | Swift | 4 | 8 | 2 | - | |||||||||||||
| 18 | Jeff Shafer | Script error: No such module "flag". | PPI Motorsports | Swift | 32 | - | - | - | 9 | - | - | - | 10 | - | 12 | 1 | - | - |
| 19 | Masaoki Nagashima | Script error: No such module "flag". | PPI Motorsports | Swift | 31 | - | - | 3 | - | 7 | 8 | - | - | 8 | - | - | 5 | - |
| 20 | Eric Lang | Script error: No such module "flag". | D&L Racing | Swift | 29 | 9 | - | 6 | - | 4 | 3 | |||||||
| D&L Racing | Ralt | 2 | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | ||||||||||
| 21 | John Rutherford | Script error: No such module "flag". | Shank Racing | Swift | 21 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | 7 | - | - |
| 22 | Robert Sollenskog | Script error: No such module "flag". | BRS Motorsports | Swift | 21 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | 7 | - | 3 | 5 | - | - | - |
| 23 | Jean-François Dumoulin | Script error: No such module "flag". | Team Scalzo | Ralt | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 24 | Steve Imhoff | Script error: No such module "flag". | Hammerhead Racing | Ralt | 11 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 25 | Mark Tague | Script error: No such module "flag". | World Speed Motorsports | Ralt | 11 | - | 7 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 26 | Cam Binder | Script error: No such module "flag". | Binder Racing | Swift | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 5 |
| 27 | Nicolas Rondet | Script error: No such module "flag". | World Speed Motorsports | Swift | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 |
| 28 | Ted Sahley | Script error: No such module "flag". | Olsson Engineering | Ralt | 9 | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 29 | Steve Cameron | Script error: No such module "flag". | Lynx Racing | Swift | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 |
| 30 | Bob Siska | Script error: No such module "flag". | RJS Motorsport | Ralt | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 31 | Joe Sposato | Script error: No such module "flag". | Sposato Motor Racing | Ralt | 6 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| 32 | Luc Lesage | Script error: No such module "flag". | ? | Ralt | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| 33 | Rennie Clayton | Script error: No such module "flag". | RPS Motorsport | Ralt | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - |
| John Brooks | Script error: No such module "flag". | BBGP Racing | Ralt | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | |
| 35 | Steve Forrer | Script error: No such module "flag". | Forrer Racing | Ralt | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - |
| 36 | Sergi Szortyka | Script error: No such module "flag". | J&J Racing | Ralt | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 37 | Zak Brown | Script error: No such module "flag". | Active Motorsports | Swift | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 38 | Dan Vosloo | Script error: No such module "flag". | Danvo Racing | Ralt | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bob Thomas | Script error: No such module "flag". | Olsson Engineering | Ralt | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Frank Allers | Script error: No such module "flag". | Johnston Engineering | Reynard | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Scott Wood | Script error: No such module "flag". | RDS Motorsports | Ralt | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Note:
Race 3 only one additional point awarded to Anthony Lazzaro, maybe because the race was abandoned.
Race 4 no additional point for the qualifying was awarded, because no session was held due to repair work on the track, starting lineup based on Friday morning practice times.
See also
External links
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