| Race details | |
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| Race 11 of 20 in the2000 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) |
The2000 Michigan 500 was the eleventh round of the twenty-round2000 CART season. It happened at theMichigan International Speedway.
TheCanadian driverPaul Tracy, fromTeam Green, set the pole, followed byMichael Andretti andChristian 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] | ||||||
Eventual winnerJuan Pablo Montoya led the race at the end of the first lap through to lap 16, where he was overtaken by eventual runner upMichael 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 wasToyota's second in ChampCar, and he became the first driver sinceRick Mears in 1991 to win both theIndianapolis 500 andMichigan 500 in the same year.
| Rank | Driver |
|---|---|
| 1 | Juan Pablo Montoya |
| 2 | Michael Andretti |
| 3 | Dario Franchitti |
| 4 | Patrick Carpentier |
| 5 | Hélio Castroneves |
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]
The Michigan 500 was broadcast by ABC.Paul Page was the lead announcer and was joined byParker Johnstone as color commentator.[7]
The race had a lead-in audience from the2000 Open Championship asTiger 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 onESPN2 on the morning of Sunday, July 23. The qualifying broadcast had a rating of 0.1 and watched by 45,000 households.[9]
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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.
| Previous race: 2000 Molson Indy Toronto | CART Indycar World Series 2000 season | Next race: 2000 TARGET Grand Prix |
| Previous race: 1999 U.S. 500 Presented by Toyota | Marlboro 500 | Next race: 2001 Harrah's 500 |
