Full race report from Vancouver

He was followed by Patrick Carpentier, Jimmy Vasser, Mauricio Gugelmin and Cristiano da Matta.

The win for Montoya moves him a closer to another record, wins in a season.

Michael Andretti and Al Unser Jr, currently share that record with eight wins in a single season.

The race, which was scheduled for 90 laps finished at the two hour mark after 74 laps were run.

The race got off to a very slow start as CART officials ran the first 10 laps under yellow in an effort to get the drivers accustomed to the very wet track.

A morning of rain left several shallow puddles on the racing surface and it was determined that the race would start in a single-file fashion to avoid any problems with passing at the starting line.

When pole sitter Montoya brought the field around for the start it was every man for
himself and Paul Tracy shot past second place starter PJ Jones for position.

Mark Blundell made a quick pass into the number four spot at that time as well.

Then the event settled down for a moment.

The first caution period came on Lap 13 as both first Michel Jourdain Jr, then Al Unser Jr slid into the wall, unable to negotiate on the very wet street.

As the green flag was shown, Montoya started to pull away from the crowd.

Behind him Roberto Moreno and Jones were involved in a serious battle, and Dario Franchitti joined that battle to make a very interesting handful of laps as the three were separated by a couple of feet.

Jones lost control of the car and spun off course ending the battle.

Montoya opened up a lead of more than 5s by Lap 30.

Paul Tracy started to close on Montoya on Lap 34 and suddenly the difference between the two was only 0.170s as the two ran into traffic.

Tracy pulled a great pass on Montoya for the lead on.

The lead wasn't Tracy's for long as a minute later he spun off and had to wait to right the car and rejoin the race.

The next caution was caused by the spinning car of Bryan Herta, another victim of the lack of grip on the track.

Through the first round of significant pit stops, Montoya retained the lead and a quick couple of green flag laps were punctuated with another caution period.

The Lap 47 green flag had Montoya in the lead followed by team-mates Tracy and Franchitti, who provided some of the most breath-taking racing of the afternoon - given their previous record of running into each other.

Jones spun on the track in front of the leaders and everyone managed to get around him safely, Franchitti passing Tracy for second in the following moments.

But, the most unbelievable turn of events came at the Lap 60 mark, as Franchitti tried to outbrake Montoya at a corner.

The Scot couldn't make the move stick and spun off as Montoya carried on.

Franchitti then had to pit a couple of times with a damaged rear wing.

At the same time Mark Blundell and Tracy both spun and hit the wall, both drivers out of the race.

The carnage wasn't done as Michel Jourdain hit the wall for the third time bringing another caution period.

The time was running out for the afternoon at Lap 70.

CART rules dictate that a road or street event will end with the first lap following the two
hour mark.

Montoya was still leading and Carpentier, having moved up a couple of spots due to the various accidents that occurred.

Carpentier was busy holding off Vasser as the white flag was shown to Montoya, and the three finished in order.