1996 Grand Prix of Miami
The 1996 Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami Presented by Toyota was a CART race at the Metro-Dade Homestead Motorsports Complex, held on March 3, 1996. It was the first round of the 1996 IndyCar season, and first CART race since the open-wheel split in 1996. It was preceded in the 1996 racing season by the inaugural Indy Racing League race in Orlando, which was not contested by any of the CART drivers that appeared at Homestead. Jimmy Vasser scored the first win of his CART career. It was also the second major racing event at the recently completed 1.527-mile oval, which had previously hosted a NASCAR Busch Grand National event in November 1995.
| Race details | |
|---|---|
| Race 1 of 16 in the 1996 IndyCar season | |
| Date | March 3, 1996 |
| Official name | Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami |
| Location | Homestead, Florida, United States |
| Course | Oval 1.527 mi / 2.457 km |
| Distance | 133 laps 203.091 mi / 326.843 km |
| Weather | Temperatures reaching up to 66.9 °F (19.4 °C); wind speeds up to 14.7 miles per hour (23.7 km/h) |
| Pole position | |
| Driver | Paul Tracy (Penske Racing) |
| Time | 27.681 |
| Fastest lap | |
| Driver | Greg Moore (Forsythe Racing) |
| Time | 28.385 (on lap 131 of 133) |
| Podium | |
| First | Jimmy Vasser (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
| Second | Gil de Ferran (Hall Racing) |
| Third | Robby Gordon (Walker Racing) |
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