Race: Excite 500

Track: Texas Motor Speedway

Date: Sunday, October 15, 2000

Start time: 1:06 PM CDT

Weather: Warm and sunny

IRL historical: #9 of 9 in 2000 season, IRL race #43 overall

Track historical: IRL race #7, Indy car race #7 at this track

Track configuration: 1.455-mile, quad-oval, high banked

Wing package: speedway


Summary:

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Fin St  Qual  Car  C/E/T    Driver            Entrant  Laps     Status  Laps Pts
        Spd    #                                                         Led
 1  2 214.391   4  D/A/F Scott Goodyear      Panther    208     Running   39  52
 2 10 211.483  51  D/I/F Eddie Cheever       Cheever    208     Running   26  40
 3 22 209.763  81  D/A/F Billy Boat          Pelfrey    208     Running    1  35
 4  6 212.305  91  D/A/F Buddy Lazier        Hemelgarn  208     Running   38  32
 5 21 209.805  11  G/A/F Eliseo Salazar      Foyt       207     Running       30
 6 16 210.827  98  D/A/F Donnie Beechler     Cahill     207     Running       28
 7 15 210.928  55  G/A/F Shigeaki Hattori    Treadway   207     Running       26
 8  3 213.074  14  G/A/F Jeff Ward           Foyt       207     Running       25
 9 17 210.480  12  D/A/F Buzz Calkins        Bradley    207     Running       22
10 12 210.997  16  G/A/F Jaques Lazier       Xtreme     207     Running    1  20
11 13 210.971  15  D/A/F Sarah Fisher        Walker     206     Running       19
12 19 209.965  88  G/A/F Airton Dare         Xtreme     205     Running       18
13 24 208.619   8  D/A/F Scott Sharp         Kelley     200     Running    2  17
14 11 211.312  28  D/A/F Mark Dismore        Kelley     189     Running       16
15 25 207.585  21  D/A/F Zak Morioka         Tristar    187    Crash T2       15
16 14 210.928   7  D/A/F Jaret Schroeder     Tristar    165     Running       14
17  4 212.633   3  G/A/F Al Unser            Galles     155      Clutch   99  15
18  5 212.340  24  G/I/F Robbie Buhl         D&R        147   Oil Pres.    2  12
19  7 212.254  43  D/A/F Davey Hamilton      MidAmerica 139   Whl Brng.       11
20 23 208.752   7  G/A/F Stephan Gregoire    Simon      116     Running       10
21 20 209.931  27  G/A/F Jimmy Kite          Blueprint   88      Engine        9
22 26 206.099  19  D/A/F Stevie Reeves       Logan       80      Engine        8
23  9 211.662  20  D/A/F Tyce Carlson        Hubb-Immke  66      Engine        7
24  8 211.996   5  G/A/F Robby McGehee       Treadway    62  Eng. Comp.        6
25 27 Prov.    30  G/A/F J. J. Yeley         Byrd-McCor  26    Oil Pump        5
26  1 215.352   1  D/A/F Greg Ray            Menard      19      Engine        7
27 18 209.974  18  G/A/F Sam Hornish         PDM          7      Engine        3


Time of race: 01:43:36 (IRNLS record to date)
Average speed: 175.276 MPH (IRNLS record to date)
Margin of victory: 0.140 seconds

Laps under green: 184 of 208 laps (88.5%%)
Caution flags: 4 for 24 laps (11.5%)
#1: lap 68, blown engine (Carlson), BS, 4 laps
#2: lap 86, blown engine (Reeves), FS, 9 laps
#3: lap 155, stalled car (Schroeder), T3, 5 laps
#4: lap 193, crash (Morioka), T2, 6 laps

Red flags: 0 for 0 minutes

Lead changes: 16; number of race leaders: 8
St: Goodyear 1
#1: A. Unser 2-33
#2: Goodyear 34-48
#3: A. Unser 49
#4: J. Lazier 50
#5: Sharp 51-52
#6: A. Unser 53-100
#7: Goodyear 101-103
#8: A. Unser 104-121
#9: Cheever 122-135
#10: Goodyear 136-143
#11: Buhl 144-145
#12: Boat 146
#13: Goodyear 147-156
#14: B. Lazier 157-194
#15: Cheever 195-206
#16: Goodyear 207-207

C/E/T finish averages (# started / avg finish):
Dallara: 15 / 14.0
G-Force: 11 / 12.9
Riley & Scott: 1 / 26.0
Aurora: 25 / 14.0
Infiniti: 2 / 13.5
Firestone: 27 / 14.0