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2000 Honda Indy 300

Queensland, Australia

The Gold Coast Indy 300 was the nineteenth and penultimate round of the 2000 CART World Series Season, held on 15 October 2000 on the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia, and was the 5th and last round to be held outside of the United States. It also marked 1998 Bathurst 1000 winner Jason Bright's first and only appearance in the series, where he finished 18th.

Qualifying results

Pos	Nat	Name	Team	Chassis
Colombia	Juan Pablo Montoya	Chip Ganassi Racing	Lola 2K/00 Toyota	1:31.722
Brazil	Gil de Ferran	Team Penske	Reynard 2Ki Honda	1:31.827
UK	Dario Franchitti	Team Green	Reynard 2Ki Honda	1:32.059
Canada	Paul Tracy	Team Green	Reynard 2Ki Honda	1:32.328
US	Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	Lola 2K/00 Toyota	1:33.052
US	Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	Lola 2K/00 Ford-Cosworth	1:33.123
Brazil	Tony Kanaan	Mo Nunn Racing	Reynard 2Ki Mercedes-Benz	1:33.165
Brazil	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	Reynard 2Ki Honda	1:33.474
Brazil	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	Lola 2K/00 Ford-Cosworth	1:33.490
Brazil	Cristiano da Matta	PPI Motorsports	Reynard 2Ki Toyota	1:33.761
Canada	Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	Reynard 2Ki Ford-Cosworth	1:33.798
Sweden	Kenny Bräck	Team Rahal	Reynard 2Ki Ford-Cosworth	1:33.856
Canada	Alex Tagliani	Forsythe Racing	Reynard 2Ki Ford-Cosworth	1:34.024
Spain	Oriol Servià	PPI Motorsports	Reynard 2Ki Toyota	1:34.059
Italy	Max Papis	Team Rahal	Reynard 2Ki Ford-Cosworth	1:34.132
Mexico	Michel Jourdain Jr.	Bettenhausen Racing	Lola 2K/00 Mercedes-Benz	1:34.282
Mexico	Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	Reynard 2Ki Ford-Cosworth	1:34.333
Brazil	Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing	Reynard 2Ki Mercedes-Benz	1:34.514
USA	Alex Barron	Dale Coyne Racing	Lola 2K/00 Ford-Cosworth	1:34.558
Brazil	Roberto Moreno	Patrick Racing	Reynard 2Ki Ford-Cosworth	1:34.835
Japan	Shinji Nakano	Walker Racing	Reynard 2Ki Honda	1:34.972
UK	Mark Blundell	PacWest Racing	Reynard 2Ki Mercedes-Benz	1:35.399
Brazil	Tarso Marques	Dale Coyne Racing	Swift 011.c Ford-Cosworth	1:35.668
Australia	Jason Bright	Della Penna Motorsports	Reynard 2Ki Toyota	1:36.432
Brazil	Luiz Garcia Jr.	Arciero Racing	Reynard 2Ki Mercedes-Benz	1:38.689

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/retired	Grid
40	Mexico Adrián Fernández	Patrick Racing	59	2:01:14.605	17	21
8	Sweden Kenny Bräck	Team Rahal	59	+0.3 secs	12	16
12	US Jimmy Vasser	Chip Ganassi Racing	59	+4.0 secs	5	14
97	Brazil Cristiano da Matta	PPI Motorsports	59	+4.8 secs	10	12
32	Canada Patrick Carpentier	Forsythe Racing	59	+5.2 secs	11	10
3	Brazil Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	59	+10.3 secs	8	8
16	Mexico Michel Jourdain Jr.	Bettenhausen Racing	59	+11.0 secs	16	6
55	Brazil Tony Kanaan	Mo Nunn Racing	59	+15.8 secs	7	5
96	Spain Oriol Servià	PPI Motorsports	59	+18.2 secs	14
17	Brazil Maurício Gugelmin	PacWest Racing	59	+18.6 secs	18	3
18	UK Mark Blundell	PacWest Racing	59	+18.7 secs	22	2
25	Brazil Luiz Garcia Jr.	Arciero Racing	58	+ 1 lap	25	1
34	Brazil Tarso Marques	Dale Coyne Racing	57	+ 2 laps	23
19	USA Alex Barron	Dale Coyne Racing	54	Mechanical	19
11	Brazil Christian Fittipaldi	Newman-Haas Racing	51	Off course	15
7	Italy Max Papis	Team Rahal	48	Contact	15
26	Canada Paul Tracy	Team Green	47	Contact	4
10	Australia Jason Bright	Della Penna Motorsports	44	Contact	24
20	Brazil Roberto Moreno	Patrick Racing	43	Contact	20
6	US Michael Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	38	Mechanical	6
5	Japan Shinji Nakano	Walker Racing	38	Mechanical	21
33	Canada Alex Tagliani	Forsythe Racing	36	Mechanical	13
2	Brazil Gil de Ferran	Team Penske	1	Contact	2
1	Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya	Chip Ganassi Racing	0	Contact	1	1
27	UK Dario Franchitti	Team Green	0	Contact	3

Caution flags

Laps	Cause
2–4	Contact Montoya (1), de Ferran (2), Franchitti (27)
12–14	Off course Tracy (26)
40–44	Mechanical Nakano (5)
45–48	Contact Moreno (20)
49–52	Contact Tracy (26), Servià (96)

Notes

Laps	Leader
1–11	Paul Tracy
12–23	Michael Andretti
24–25	Jimmy Vasser
26–35	Kenny Bräck
36–36	Alex Tagliani
37–42	Jimmy Vasser
43–59	Adrián Fernández

Driver	Laps led
Adrián Fernández	17
Michael Andretti	12
Paul Tracy	11
Kenny Bräck	10
Jimmy Vasser	8
Alex Tagliani	1

Average Speed 81.607 mph

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