2002 Honda Indy 300
Pos 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
Qualifying results
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. The race was marred by extremely wet conditions. The initial start resulted in a multi-car crash injuring Fernandez and Takagi. CART officials allowed teams to repair their cars or pull out backups. Postponing the race was not an option due to international travel, limited TV window, and logistics of the street course circuit. The race restarted on lap 3 with slightly improved conditions, but went back under yellow at lap 10 where it would remain until the race was called at lap 40. Michael Andretti's team believed the race would be called once the race passed official race status of the full lap past the halfway point (35 laps plus one) of the original distance (70 laps, but the race was shortened to 50 laps by officials after the start crash), but officials instead waited until lap 40 to force each car to make two pit stops. This gave Domínguez his first career win in the slowest race in CART history. For 2003, rules were changed to allow the race to be called prior to halfway with only half points being awarded. This rule was not implemented by IndyCar after the 2008 reunification.