2002 Honda Indy 300

  2002 Surfers Paradise

Race details
Race 17 of 19 in the 2002 CART season
Map of the track
Date	27 October, 2002
Official name	Honda Indy 300
Location	Surfers Paradise Street Circuit Queensland, Australia
Course	Temporary Street Circuit 2.795 mi / 4.498 km
Distance	40 laps, 111.800 mi / 179.920 km
Weather	Rain
Pole position
Driver	Cristiano da Matta	Newman-Haas Racing
Time	1:30.204
Fastest lap
Driver	Cristiano da Matta	Newman-Haas Racing
Time	1:56.457 (on lap 7 of 40)
Podium
First	Mario Domínguez	Herdez Competition
Second	Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing
Third	Paul Tracy	Team Green

The 2002 Honda Indy 300 was the seventeenth round of the 2002 CART World Series season, held on 27 October 2002 on the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia.

Qualifying results

Pos	Nat	Name	Team	Chassis	Time
1		Cristiano da Matta	Newman-Haas Racing	Lola B2/00 Toyota	1:30.204
2		Bruno Junqueira	Chip Ganassi Racing	Lola B2/00 Toyota	1:30.214
3		Tony Kanaan	Mo Nunn Racing	Lola B2/00 Honda	1:30.427
4		Kenny Bräck	Chip Ganassi Racing	Lola B2/00 Toyota	1:30.616
5		Paul Tracy	Team Green	Lola B2/00 Honda	1:30.731
6		Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Lola B2/00 Toyota	1:30.810
7		Shinji Nakano	Fernández Racing	Lola B2/00 Honda	1:30.936
8		Dario Franchitti	Team Green	Lola B2/00 Honda	1:31.040
9		Oriol Servià	Patrick Racing	Reynard 02i Toyota	1:31.087
10		Adrián Fernández	Fernández Racing	Lola B2/00 Honda	1:31.351
11		Jimmy Vasser	Team Rahal	Lola B2/00 Ford-Cosworth	1:31.369
12		Michel Jourdain, Jr.	Team Rahal	Lola B2/00 Ford-Cosworth	1:31.709
13		Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	Lola B2/00 Toyota	1:32.223
14		Alex Tagliani	Forsythe Racing	Reynard 02i Ford-Cosworth	1:32.300
15		Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	Reynard 02i Ford-Cosworth	1:32.367
16		Michael Andretti	Team Green	Lola B2/00 Honda	1:32.439
17		Tora Takagi	Walker Racing	Reynard 02i Toyota	1:33.922
18		Mario Domínguez	Herdez Competition	Lola B2/00 Ford-Cosworth	1:33.655

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	55	Mario Domínguez	Herdez Competition	40	2:00:06.524	18	20
2	32	Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	40	+2.2 secs	15	16
3	26	Paul Tracy	Team Green	40	+2.5 secs	5	14
4	12	Kenny Bräck	Chip Ganassi Racing	40	+2.7 secs	4	12
5	10	Tony Kanaan	Mo Nunn Racing	40	+4.8 secs	3	10
6	33	Alex Tagliani	Forsythe Racing	40	+7.8 secs	14	8
7	27	Dario Franchitti	Team Green	40	+9.9 secs	8	6
8	1	Cristiano da Matta	Newman-Haas Racing	40	+12.3 secs	1	7
9	39	Michael Andretti	Team Green	40	+13.5 secs	16	4
10	9	Michel Jourdain, Jr.	Team Rahal	40	+13.6 secs	12	3
11	11	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	40	+14.8 secs	13	2
12	8	Jimmy Vasser	Team Rahal	40	+16.2 secs	11	1
13	52	Shinji Nakano	Fernández Racing	40	+17.6 secs	7
14	4	Bruno Junqueira	Chip Ganassi Racing	40	+18.1 secs	2	1
15	44	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	24	Mechanical	6
16	20	Oriol Servià	Patrick Racing	11	Mechanical	9
17	51	Adrián Fernández	Fernández Racing	0	Contact	10
18	5	Tora Takagi	Walker Racing	0	Contact	17

Caution flags

Laps	Cause
0-2	Yellow start
10-40	Wet track conditions

Notes

Laps Leader 1-10 Cristiano da Matta 11-18 Bruno Junqueira 19-29 Cristiano da Matta 30-35 Michael Andretti 36-36 Christian Fittipaldi 37-40 Mario Dominguez

Driver Laps led Cristiano da Matta 21 Bruno Junqueira 8 Michael Andretti 6 Mario Dominguez 4 Christian Fittipaldi 1

• Average Speed 55.849 mph

External links

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