1995 Indycar Australia

1995 Surfers Paradise

Race details
Race 2 of 17 in the 1995 IndyCar season
Map of the track
Date	19 March, 1995
Official name	1995 Gold Coast Indy
Location	Surfers Paradise Street Circuit Queensland, Australia
Course	Temporary Street Circuit 2.794 mi / 4.496 km
Distance	65 laps 181.610 mi / 292.240 km
Pole position
Driver	Michael Andretti (Newman-Haas Racing)
Time	1:36.770
Fastest lap
Driver	Michael Andretti (Newman-Haas Racing)
Time	1:37.564 (on lap 40 of 65)
Podium
First	Paul Tracy (Newman-Haas Racing)
Second	Bobby Rahal (Rahal/Hogan Racing)
Third	Scott Pruett (Patrick Racing)

The 1995 Indycar Australia was the second round of the 1995 CART World Series season, held on 19 March 1995 on the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia.

Pos	Nat	Name	Team	Car	Time
1		Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	Lola T95/00 Ford XB Cosworth	1:36.770
2		Jacques Villeneuve	Team Green	Reynard 95I Ford XB Cosworth	1:36.908
3		Al Unser Jr.	Team Penske	Penske PC24-95 Mercedes-Benz	1:36.975
4		Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Penske	Penske PC24-95 Mercedes-Benz	1:37.097
5		Teo Fabi	Forsythe Racing	Reynard 95I Ford XB Cosworth	1:37.135
6		Gil de Ferran	Jim Hall Racing	Reynard 95I Mercedes-Benz	1:37.343
7		Stefan Johansson	Bettenhausen Motorsports	Penske PC23-94 Mercedes-Benz	1:37.642
8		Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	Reynard 95I Ford XB Cosworth	1:37.653
9		Paul Tracy	Newman-Haas Racing	Lola T95/00 Ford XB Cosworth	1:37.700
10		Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing	Reynard 95I Ford XB Cosworth	1:37.802
11		Scott Pruett	Patrick Racing	Lola T95/00 Ford XB Cosworth	1:38.057
12		Adrián Fernández	Galles Racing	Lola T95/00 Mercedes-Benz	1:38.059
13		Bobby Rahal	Rahal/Hogan Racing	Lola T95/00 Mercedes-Benz	1:38.113
14		Christian Fittipaldi	Walker Racing	Reynard 95I Ford XB Cosworth	1:38.180
15		Robby Gordon	Walker Racing	Reynard 95I Ford XB Cosworth	1:38.275
16		Éric Bachelart	Dale Coyne Racing	Lola T94/00 Ford XB Cosworth	1:38.532
17		Eddie Cheever	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Lola T95/00 Ford XB Cosworth	1:38.539
18		Bryan Herta	Chip Ganassi Racing	Reynard 95I Ford XB Cosworth	1:38.604
19		Danny Sullivan	PacWest Racing	Reynard 95I Ford XB Cosworth	1:38.738
20		Alessandro Zampedri	Dale Coyne Racing	Lola T94/00 Ford XB Cosworth	1:38.738
21		Raul Boesel	Rahal/Hogan Racing	Lola T95/00 Mercedes-Benz	1:39.313
22		André Ribeiro	Tasman Motorsports	Reynard 95I Honda	1:39.352
23		Eliseo Salazar	Dick Simon Racing	Lola T95/00 Ford XB Cosworth	1:39.881
24		Buddy Lazier	Project Indy	Lola T93/00 Ford XB Cosworth	1:40.250
25		Dean Hall	Dick Simon Racing	Lola T95/00 Ford XB Cosworth	1:41.586
26		Hiro Matsushita	Arciero Racing	Reynard 94I Ford XB Cosworth	1:42.253

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Paul Tracy	Newman-Haas Racing	65	1:58:26.054	9	20
2	9	Bobby Rahal	Rahal/Hogan Racing	65	+7.0 secs	13	16
3	20	Scott Pruett	Patrick Racing	65	+7.7 secs	11	14
4	18	Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing	65	+13.5 secs	10	12
5	17	Danny Sullivan	PacWest Racing	65	+19.1 secs	19	10
6	1	Al Unser Jr.	Team Penske	65	+35.3 secs	3	8
7	14	Eddie Cheever	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	65	+36.3 secs	17	6
8	11	Raul Boesel	Rahal/Hogan Racing	65	+44.5 secs	21	5
9	6	Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	64	Contact	1	6
10	7	Eliseo Salazar	Dick Simon Racing	64	+ 1 lap	23	3
11	25	Hiro Matsushita	Arciero Racing	62	+ 3 laps	26	2
12	99	Dean Hall	Dick Simon Racing	61	+ 4 laps	25	1
13	33	Teo Fabi	Forsythe Racing	60	+ 5 laps	5
14	5	Robby Gordon	Walker Racing	59	Electrical	15
15	4	Bryan Herta	Chip Ganassi Racing	58	Contact	18
16	8	Gil de Ferran	Jim Hall Racing	54	Contact	6
17	16	Stefan Johansson	Bettenhausen Motorsports	53	Transmission	7
18	2	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Penske	52	Electrical	4
19	34	Alessandro Zampedri	Dale Coyne Racing	51	+ 14 laps	20
20	27	Jacques Villeneuve	Team Green	38	Transmission	2
21	64	Buddy Lazier	Project Indy	32	Transmission	24
22	19	Éric Bachelart	Dale Coyne Racing	31	Transmission	16
23	31	André Ribeiro	Tasman Motorsports	23	Transmission	22
24	12	Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	19	Transmission	8
25	15	Christian Fittipaldi	Walker Racing	11	Transmission	14
26	10	Adrián Fernández	Galles Racing	3	Contact	12

• Average Speed 92.335 mph
• Michael Andretti was being chased by Bobby Rahal for second behind teammate Paul Tracy on the final lap. He caught a bit too much curb in the backstretch chicanes, inducing oversteer, and clipped the barrier.
• Tracy's victory was the fifth in a row for Canadian drivers. Tracy won the final two races of 1994, and Jacques Villeneuve won the race before those two and the 1995 season opener. The next time five or more successive races were won by drivers of the same nationality would be in 1996.

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