Top five Champ Car moments
Champ car racing finds itself in a state of flux. Is it a US series with an international flavour, or an international series with the majority of its rounds in the USA? With only a handful of US drivers running anything like a full programme, CART's identity crisis had the American fans and TV networks confused - but the actual racing was better than ever. Amazingly, 11 different drivers won races, 24 led laps and five went to the final round with a chance of taking the title
Autosport.com picks out five classic moments from a classic season...
Rockingham Motor Speedway and Eurospeedway Lausitz announce Champ car dates for 2001 - the first time the USA's leading single-seater series will race on this side of the Atlantic since 1978.
Jimmy Vasser wins in Houston, just days after being told by team boss Chip Ganassi that his services would not be required in 2001. There's still life in the not-so-old dog yet...
Cleveland's first corner pile-up. For proponents of chaos theory, this was classic stuff. One small mistake leads to one of the biggest acccidents in recent CART history, fortunately without injury. Roberto Moreno escapes the chaos and takes the victory, proving nice guys do come first sometimes.
The California 500. Five drivers come into the final race with a chance of taking the CART FedEx series title. Rain stops play on the Sunday, leading to a dramatic, incident-packed, attrition-wracked Monday afternoon thriller. Gil de Ferran was an emotional and highly-popular champion for Penske.
The Michigan 500. Was this the greatest motor race ever? The lead changed hands no fewer than 162 times - 52 times at the start/finish line - and for most of the race at least five or six cars were within shouting distance of the lead. Juan Pablo Montoya won the race after an extraordinary final lap game of cat and mouse with Michael Andretti.
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