1999 Molson Indy Vancouver
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Race details | |
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Race 16 of 20 in the 1999 CART season | |
Date | September 5, 1999 |
Official name | 1999 Molson Indy Vancouver |
Location | Concord Pacific Place, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Course | Temporary Street Course 1.780 mi / 2.865 km |
Distance | 74 (shortened from 90) laps 131.72 mi / 212.01 km |
Weather | Cloudy and wet with temperatures reaching up to 18.8 °C (65.8 °F)[1] |
Pole position | |
Driver | Juan Pablo Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
Time | 1:00.641 |
Fastest lap | |
Driver | Juan Pablo Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
Time | (on lap of 74 (shortened from 90)) |
Podium | |
First | Juan Pablo Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
Second | Patrick Carpentier (Forsythe Racing) |
Third | Jimmy Vasser (Chip Ganassi Racing) |
The 1999 Molson Indy Vancouver was a Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) motor race held on September 5, 1999, at Concord Pacific Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was the 16th round of the 1999 CART season. Juan Pablo Montoya won the race from pole position and led nearly every lap en route to his seventh win of the season, followed by Patrick Carpentier and Jimmy Vasser.
Despite leading all but one lap during the race, Montoya was hampered by the wet racetrack and the pace of his championship rival Dario Franchitti; at one point, both drivers touched on track, spinning Franchitti out and ending his chances at winning the race. The race also saw multiple crashes as drivers struggled to navigate around the soaking wet racetrack.