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CART: DeFerran Wins Pole for Firestone Firehawk 500

10 April 1999

MOTEGI, Japan: Following are the qualifying results for the Firestone Firehawk 500 CART FedEx Championship race to be held Saturday. Results include starting position, (car number), driver, hometown/country, chassis-engine, and qualifying speed in kph (mph in parenthesis):

1, (5) Gil de Ferran, Brazil, Reynard-Honda, 352.466 (219.000 mph).
2, (17) Mauricio Gugelmin, Brazil, Reynard-Mercedes, 351.521 (218.425).
3, (7) Max Papis, Italy, Reynard-Ford, 351.288 (218.280).
4, (40) Adrian Fernandez, Mexico, Ford-Reynard, 351.178 (218.212).
5, (6) Michael Andretti, USA, Swift-Ford, 351.027 (218.118).
6, (99) Greg Moore, Canada, Reynard-Mercedes, 350.657 (217.888).
7, (11) Christian Fittipaldi, Brazil, Swift-Ford, 350.451 (217.760).
8, (8) Bryan Herta, USA, Reynard-Ford, 350.396 (217.726).
9, (20) P.J. Jones, USA, Reynard-Ford, 350.150 (217.573).
10, (26) Paul Tracy, Canada, Honda-Reynard, 350.055 (217.514).
11, (27) Dario Franchitti, Scotland, Reynard-Honda, 350.000 (217.480).
12, (12) Jimmy Vasser, USA, Reynard-Honda, 349.891 (217.412).
13, (33) Patrick Carpentier, Canada, Reynard-Mercedes, 349.345 (217.073).
14, (22) Robby Gordon, USA, Reynard-Toyota, 349.155 (216.955).
15, (4) Juan Montoya, Colombia, Reynard-Honda, 346.567 (215.347).
16, (18) Mark Blundell, England, Reynard-Mercedes, 346.339 (215.205).
17, (44) Tony Kanaan, Brazil, Reynard-Honda, 346.205 (215.112).
18, (9) Helio Castro-Neves, Brazil, Mercedes-Lola, 345.779 (214.857).
19, (36) Alex Barron, USA, Toyota-Eagle, 344.438 (214.024).
20, (24) Scott Pruett, USA, Toyota-Reynard, 344.412 (214.008).
21, (10) Richie Hearn, USA, Swift-Toyota, 343.173 (213.238).
22, (2) Tarso Marques, Brazil, Penske-Mercedes, 341.997 (212.507).
23, (25) Cristiano da Matta, Brazil, Reynard-Toyota, 336.319 (208.979).
24, (16) Shigeaki Hattori, Japan, Mercedes-Reynard, 336.144 (208.870).
25, (71) Luiz Garcia Jr., Brazil, Reynard-Ford, 335.917 (208.729).
26, (19) Michel Jourdain Jr., Mexico, Lola-Ford, 332.938 (206.878).

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