2000 Michigan 500
| Race details | |
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| Race 11 of 20 in the 2000 CART season | |
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| Date | July 23, 2000 |
| Official name | 2000 Michigan 500 |
| Location | Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Michigan, United States |
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.000 mi / 3.219 km |
| Distance | 250 laps 500.000 mi / 804.672 km |
| Pole position | |
| Driver | Paul Tracy (Team Green) |
| Time | 30.645 (234.94 mph)[1] |
| Fastest lap | |
| Driver | Juan Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
| Time | 31.162[2] (on lap 232 of 250) |
| Podium | |
| First | Juan Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
| Second | Michael Andretti (Newman/Haas Racing) |
| Third | Dario Franchitti (Team Green) |
The 2000 Michigan 500 was the eleventh round of the twenty-round 2000 CART season. It happened at the Michigan International Speedway.
Qualifying
[edit]The Canadian driver Paul Tracy, from Team Green, set the pole, followed by Michael Andretti and Christian Fittipaldi.
| Qualifying - 22 July 2000 | ||||||
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| Pos. | No. | Driver | Team | Lap Time | Behind | Speed (mph) |
| 1 | 26 |  Paul Tracy | Team Green | 30,645 | 234.949 | |
| 2 | 6 |  Michael Andretti | Newman/Haas Racing | 30,687 | 0,042 | 234.627 |
| 3 | 11 |  Christian Fittipaldi | Newman/Haas Racing | 30,739 | 0,094 | 234.230 |
| 4 | 27 |  Dario Franchitti | Team Green | 30,878 | 0,233 | 233.176 |
| 5 | 2 | Gil de Ferran | Team Penske | 30,904 | 0,259 | 232.980 |
| 6 | 12 | Jimmy Vasser | Chip Ganassi Racing | 30,933 | 0,288 | 232.761 |
| 7 | 1 |  Juan Pablo Montoya | Chip Ganassi Racing | 30,963 | 0,318 | 232.536 |
| 8 | 33 | Alex Tagliani R | Forsythe Racing | 30,990 | 0,345 | 232.333 |
| 9 | 32 | Patrick Carpentier | Forsythe Racing | 31,036 | 0,391 | 231.989 |
| 10 | 8 |  Kenny Bräck R | Team Rahal | 31,065 | 0,420 | 231.772 |
| 11 | 7 |  Max Papis | Team Rahal | 31,127 | 0,482 | 231.310 |
| 12 | 40 |  Adrián Fernández | Patrick Racing | 31,146 | 0,501 | 231.169 |
| 13 | 3 | Hélio Castroneves | Team Penske | 31,201 | 0,556 | 230.762 |
| 14 | 97 | Cristiano da Matta | PPI Motorsports | 31,321 | 0,676 | 229.878 |
| 15 | 96 |  Oriol Servià R | PPI Motorsports | 31,371 | 0,726 | 229.511 |
| 16 | 20 | Roberto Moreno | Patrick Racing | 31,567 | 0,922 | 228.086 |
| 17 | 18 |  Mark Blundell | PacWest Racing | 31,780 | 1,135 | 226.558 |
| 18 | 55 | Tony Kanaan | Forsythe Racing | 31,835 | 1,190 | 226.166 |
| 19 | 5 |  Shinji Nakano R | Walker Racing | 31,885 | 1,240 | 225.812 |
| 20 | 17 | Mauricio Gugelmin | PacWest Racing | 31,909 | 1,264 | 225.642 |
| 21 | 10 | Memo Gidley | Della Penna Motorsports | 32,053 | 1,408 | 224.628 |
| 22 | 16 | Michel Jourdain Jr. | Bettenhausen Racing | 32,175 | 1,530 | 223.776 |
| 23 | 25 | Luiz Garcia Jr. | Arciero Racing | 32,714 | 2,069 | 220.089 |
| 24 | 34 | Tarso Marques | Dale Coyne Racing | 0,000 | 30,645 | 0.000 |
| 25 | 19 | Takuya Kurosawa R | Dale Coyne Racing | 0,000 | 30,645 | 0,000 |
| Source: [3] [4] | ||||||
- R Eligible for Rookie of the Year
Race
[edit]Eventual winner Juan Pablo Montoya led the race at the end of the first lap through to lap 16, where he was overtaken by eventual runner up Michael Andretti. Across the 250 laps, the race saw nine different leaders, with 52 lead changes. There were five cautions over the course of the race, taking 38 laps in total.[5] Thirteen cars did not finish the race, and only seven cars completed the full 500-mile distance. The race culminated in a battle between Montoya and Andretti, with seven lead changes in the final twenty laps. Montoya set the race's fastest lap on lap 232 of 250. Andretti led lap 249, but was passed by Montoya on the final lap.[6] Montoya's margin of victory was just 0.040s.[5] Montoya's victory was Toyota's second in ChampCar, and he became the first driver since Rick Mears in 1991 to win both the Indianapolis 500 and Michigan 500 in the same year.
| Rank | Driver |
|---|---|
| 1 | Juan Pablo Montoya |
| 2 | Michael Andretti |
| 3 | Dario Franchitti |
| 4 | Patrick Carpentier |
| 5 | Hélio Castroneves |
Championship Battle
[edit]Michael Andretti became the new leader of the championship with 100 points. The previous leader, Roberto Moreno was in 2nd with 90 points. Race winner Juan Pablo Montoya moved up to 5th in the Championship standings with 74 points.[6]
Broadcasting
[edit]The Michigan 500 was broadcast by ABC. Paul Page was the lead announcer and was joined by Parker Johnstone as color commentator.[7]
The race had a lead-in audience from the 2000 Open Championship as Tiger Woods won his first Open Championship. In the United States, the race had a 2.5 overnight rating.[8] The race had a final rating of 2.0 with 2.058 million households watching. It was the most-watched CART race of 2000.[9]
Qualifying for the race was broadcast tape-delayed on ESPN2 on the morning of Sunday, July 23. The qualifying broadcast had a rating of 0.1 and watched by 45,000 households.[9]
Standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for the drivers' standings.
References
[edit]- ^ "Paul Tracy Career History". paultracy.com. Paul Tracy. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
Pole position at Michigan Speedway came at a track-record speed of 234.949 miles per hour (30.645 seconds) and was his first pole since 1997 at Milwaukee, as well as his first career pole on a superspeedway.
- ^ Harms, Philip (2000-08-05). "2000 Championship Results: Brooklyn, MI 500 Mile Race - July 23, 2000" (PDF). motorsport.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 8, 2011. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
- ^ "2000 Michigan 500 | Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motor Sport Magazine. 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
- ^ "CART // Michigan // Results // Qualifying // Classification". CART.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2000. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
- ^ a b "07/23/2000 race: Michigan 500 Presented by Toyota (CART) pit stop data - Racing-Reference.info". www.racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
- ^ a b c "07/23/2000 race: Michigan 500 Presented by Toyota (CART) - Racing-Reference.info". www.racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
- ^ 2000 Michigan 500 Telecast: ABC-TV, July 23, 2000
- ^ "CART Does Very Well at Michigan". Speedvision.com. 2000-07-24. Archived from the original on 2001-04-14. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ a b "Who Watched What July 22-23". Speedvision.com. 2000-07-27. Archived from the original on 2001-08-25. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ a b c "2000 Michigan 500 Presented by Toyota". USA Today Sports Media Group. September 15, 2001. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
- ^ a b c "ChampCar/CART: Points standing after Michigan". Motorsport.com. July 24, 2000. Retrieved June 3, 2018.[permanent dead link]