CART: Budweiser 500 At Twin Ring Motegi - Fact Sheet
24 March 1998
WHAT: Budweiser 500. WHERE: Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi, Japan. WHEN: Thursday-Saturday, March 26-28. SUPPORT EVENTS: None. SCHEDULE: Thursday, March 26 CART practice 10:30 a.m.- Noon. CART practice (2 groups/45 minutes each), 2:30-4:15 p.m. Friday, March 27 CART practice 10-11:15 a.m. CART qualifying, 2:15-3:45 p.m. Saturday, March 28 CART warm-up, 9-9:30 a.m. Grid CART Cars, 12:15 p.m. Budweiser 500, 1 p.m. BROADCAST: www.theautochannel.com: Friday, March 27th at 7:45pm PST TVABC-TV (Tape delay, Saturday, March 28, 2 p.m. EST). DEFENDING CHAMPION: First event. DEFENDING POLESITTER: First event TRACK LAYOUT: 1.549-mile oval. RACE LENGTH: 500 kilometers (312 miles), 201 laps. TRACK RECORDS: First event. RACE ROUND: 2 of 19. 1997 PPG CUP POINTS LEADERS: 1. Michael Andretti 21 2. Greg Moore 17 3. Alex Zanardi 14 4. Christian Fittipaldi 12 5. Scott Pruett 10 NEXT EVENT: April 5, Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, Long Beach,CA