1999 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
| Race details | |||||
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| Race 3 of 20 in the 1999 CART season | |||||
Long Beach track layout | |||||
| Date | April 18, 1999 | ||||
| Official name | 1999 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach | ||||
| Location | Streets of Long Beach Long Beach, California, United States | ||||
| Course | Temporary street circuit 1.824 mi / 2.935 km | ||||
| Distance | 85 laps 155.04 mi / 249.51 km | ||||
| Weather | Dry | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Tony Kanaan (Forsythe Racing) | ||||
| Time | 1:01.109 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver | Juan Pablo Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing) | ||||
| Time | 1:02.779 (on lap 63 of 85) | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Juan Pablo Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing) | ||||
| Second | Dario Franchitti (Team KOOL Green) | ||||
| Third | Bryan Herta (Team Rahal) | ||||
| Chronology | |||||
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The 1999 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the third round of the 1999 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on April 18, 1999, on the streets of Long Beach, California.
This marks the first Long Beach Grand Prix without former Long Beach winners Bobby Rahal and Al Unser Jr. Rahal retired at the end of 1998, and Al Unser was injured in the inaugural race of the season.