1999 Honda Indy 300

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1999 Honda Indy 300 was the nineteenth and penultimate round of the 1999 CART season, held on October 17, 1999 on the Streets of Surfers Paradise, Surfers Paradise, Australia. The Nikon Indy 300 was an open-wheel motor race event that took place at the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit in south east Queensland, Australia. Known generically as the Gold Coast Indy 300, Japanese camera giant Nikon was announced as new naming rights sponsor in early August, 2008. The challenging 4.47 kilometre track has several fast sections and four chicanes. The race had been an annual event since 1991 originally as part of the CART IndyCar World Series. Then, following the split between CART and the newly formed Indy Racing League (IRL) in 1996 and the subsequent dissolution of CART in 2003, as part of the Champ Car World Series.