NTB Trans-Am Series Fact Sheet: Road Racing Classic at Mid-Ohio
11 June 1998
Race Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 Green Flag: 12:00 p.m. (EDT) Television: Sunday, June 14 TNN-The Nashville Network, 2:00 p.m. (EDT) Monday, June 15 (Rebroadcast) Speedvision, 9:00 p.m. (EDT) Circuit: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, 2.25-mile, 13-turn road course Race Length: 45 laps, 101.25 miles. It's been a dozen years since the Trans-Am and Can-Am names were featured on the same ticket (Mosport Park, 1986), and this weekend continues a new era in North American motorsports as the "modern" Can-Am Championship-now competing under the USRRC banner-and the NTB Trans-Am are once again teamed. This week will be the second of three 1998 venues featuring both the NTB Trans-Am and Can-Am (Homestead, May 16-17; Minneapolis, June 27-28). NTB TRANS-AM RECORDS Qualifying: 98.149 mph, 1:22.623, Tom Kendall, 1997 Race Lap: 95.733 mph, 1:24.610, Jack Baldwin, 1993 Winner's Speed: 85.747 mph, Tom Kendall, 1994 Narrowest Margin of Victory: .300 sec., Parnelli Jones over George Follmer, 1970 Widest Margin of Victory: 1 lap + 22 sec., Mark Donohue over Jerry Titus, 1968 Last Race Margin of Victory: .546 sec., Tom Kendall over Dorsey Schroeder, 1997 Past Winners: Year Winner Speed 1967 Jerry Titus (O), Horst Kwech (U) 76.664 mph 1968 Mark Donohue (O), Bert Everett (U) 82.28 mph 1969 Ron Bucknum (O), Peter Gregg (U) 83.53 mph 1970 Parnelli Jones 83.118 mph 1971 George Follmer 77.150 mph 1972 Milt Minter 78.990 mph 1982 Elliott Forbes-Robinson 75.890 mph 1983 Willy T. Ribbs 87.518 mph 1985 Wally Dallenbach Jr. 91.053 mph 1986 Greg Pickett 83.060 mph 1987 Scott Pruett 82.957 mph 1988 Hans Stuck 65.423 mph 1989 Dorsey Schroeder 91.994 mph 1990 Darin Brassfield 90.665 mph 1991 Darin Brassfield 92.340 mph 1992 Greg Pickett 81.696 mph 1993 Jack Baldwin 81.889 mph 1994 Tom Kendall 85.747 mph 1997 Tom Kendall 88.422 mph Past Poles: Year Fastest Qualifier Speed 1967 N.A. 1968 N.A. 1969 N.A. 1970 N.A. 1971 N.A. 1972 Milt Minter 84.716 mph 1982 Tom Gloy 90.580 mph 1983 Elliott Forbes-Robinson 92.840 mph 1985 Elliott Forbes-Robinson 95.390 mph 1986 Scott Pruett 95.059 mph 1987 Scott Pruett 97.643 mph 1988 Irv Hoerr 96.712 mph 1989 Irv Hoerr 95.296 mph 1990 Darin Brassfield 99.207 mph 1991 Paul Gentilozzi 99.312 mph 1992 Greg Pickett 96.292 mph 1993 Tommy Archer 98.002 mph 1994 Tom Kendall 97.987 mph 1997 Tom Kendall 98.149 mph