The Race Report: Motorola 220.(results)(Brief Article)

More than strange, Road America's Motorola 220 was downright bizarre. CART fans will be sorting through this one until next season begins. Rookie Bruno Junqueira won, even as teammate Memo Gidley was getting precautionary X-rays after horrific contact with a bridge abutment. Junqueira took the lead when Michael Andretti and Christian Fittipaldi hit each other, following a pre-race deluge of biblical proportions, 21 yellow flag laps and a 48-minute red flag to divert run-off flowing across the track.

The rain had subsided when the field got rolling, on rain tires, starting under caution. Pole-sitter Kenny Brack held the lead for the first 11 laps, until, with the track drying in most places, he and most everyone else pitted for slicks. Trouble was, water was still gushing across the circuit near Turn 11. When Mauricio Gugelmin and Tora Takagi crashed hydroplaning across it, CART decided to stop the show to stop the flow. The five drivers who'd already crashed weren't pleased. Helio Castroneves gained from the red flag. When most pitted for slicks, he stayed on rain tires and assumed the lead. When the race was stopped, he got his slicks, then restarted in ...