2000 Michigan 500

United States 2000 Michigan 500
Race details
Race 11 of 20 in the 2000 CART season
DateJuly 23, 2000
Official name2000 Michigan 500
LocationMichigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Michigan, United States
CoursePermanent racing facility
2.000 mi / 3.219 km
Distance250 laps
500.000 mi / 804.672 km
Pole position
DriverPaul Tracy (Team Green)
Time30.645 (234.94 mph)[1]
Fastest lap
DriverJuan Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing)
Time31.162[2] (on lap 232 of 250)
Podium
FirstJuan Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing)
SecondMichael Andretti (Newman/Haas Racing)
ThirdDario 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

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The Canadian driver Paul Tracy, from Team Green, set the pole, followed by Michael Andretti and Christian Fittipaldi.

Qualifying - 22 July 2000
Pos. No. Driver Team Lap Time Behind Speed
(mph)
1 26 Canada Paul Tracy Team Green 30,645 234.949
2 6 United States Michael Andretti Newman/Haas Racing 30,687 0,042 234.627
3 11 Brazil Christian Fittipaldi Newman/Haas Racing 30,739 0,094 234.230
4 27 Scotland Dario Franchitti Team Green 30,878 0,233 233.176
5 2 Brazil Gil de Ferran Team Penske 30,904 0,259 232.980
6 12 United States Jimmy Vasser Chip Ganassi Racing 30,933 0,288 232.761
7 1 Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya Chip Ganassi Racing 30,963 0,318 232.536
8 33 Canada Alex Tagliani  R  Forsythe Racing 30,990 0,345 232.333
9 32 Canada Patrick Carpentier Forsythe Racing 31,036 0,391 231.989
10 8 Sweden Kenny Bräck  R  Team Rahal 31,065 0,420 231.772
11 7 Italy Max Papis Team Rahal 31,127 0,482 231.310
12 40 Mexico Adrián Fernández Patrick Racing 31,146 0,501 231.169
13 3 Brazil Hélio Castroneves Team Penske 31,201 0,556 230.762
14 97 Brazil Cristiano da Matta PPI Motorsports 31,321 0,676 229.878
15 96 Spain Oriol Servià  R  PPI Motorsports 31,371 0,726 229.511
16 20 Brazil Roberto Moreno Patrick Racing 31,567 0,922 228.086
17 18 United Kingdom Mark Blundell PacWest Racing 31,780 1,135 226.558
18 55 Brazil Tony Kanaan Forsythe Racing 31,835 1,190 226.166
19 5 Japan Shinji Nakano  R  Walker Racing 31,885 1,240 225.812
20 17 Brazil Mauricio Gugelmin PacWest Racing 31,909 1,264 225.642
21 10 United States Memo Gidley Della Penna Motorsports 32,053 1,408 224.628
22 16 Mexico Michel Jourdain Jr. Bettenhausen Racing 32,175 1,530 223.776
23 25 Brazil Luiz Garcia Jr. Arciero Racing 32,714 2,069 220.089
24 34 Brazil Tarso Marques Dale Coyne Racing 0,000 30,645 0.000
25 19 Japan Takuya Kurosawa  R  Dale Coyne Racing 0,000 30,645 0,000
Source: [3] [4]
  •  R  Eligible for Rookie of the Year

Race

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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.

Race results[6]
Rank Driver
1 Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya
2 United States Michael Andretti
3 United Kingdom Dario Franchitti
4 Canada Patrick Carpentier
5 Brazil Hélio Castroneves

Championship Battle

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See also: 2000 CART season

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

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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

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "2000 Michigan 500 | Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motor Sport Magazine. 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  4. ^ "CART // Michigan // Results // Qualifying // Classification". CART.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2000. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b c "07/23/2000 race: Michigan 500 Presented by Toyota (CART) - Racing-Reference.info". www.racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  7. ^ 2000 Michigan 500 Telecast: ABC-TV, July 23, 2000
  8. ^ "CART Does Very Well at Michigan". Speedvision.com. 2000-07-24. Archived from the original on 2001-04-14. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ a b c "2000 Michigan 500 Presented by Toyota". USA Today Sports Media Group. September 15, 2001. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  11. ^ a b c "ChampCar/CART: Points standing after Michigan". Motorsport.com. July 24, 2000. Retrieved June 3, 2018.[permanent dead link‍]


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