CART: Montoya among six drivers featured on AARWBA All-Star Team
14 January 2000
Posted By Terry
Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
Text Provided by CARTFedEx Championship Series champion Juan Montoya will be among six Champ Car drivers who will be honored Saturday as members of the 1999 All-American Auto Racing Team selected by the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association (AARWBA).
The team will be presented during the annual AARWBA banquet at the Renaissance Long Beach Hotel in Long Beach, Calif. Montoya, whose series-high totals of seven victories and seven pole positions helped make him the youngest champion in FedEx Championship Series history last year, was selected to the First Team in the Open Wheel division.
Series runner-up Dario Franchitti earned Second Team honors, along with new Team Rahal driver Kenny Brack, who competed in the Indy Racing League last season.
Michael Andretti, Paul Tracy and the late Greg Moore received Honorable Mention on the team. This marks Andretti's ninth appearance as an All-American in 16 seasons of Champ Car competition, while Tracy appears for the fifth in his nine Champ Car seasons.
Toyota Atlantic champion Anthony Lazzaro joined Montoya on the First Team, receiving an at-large berth.
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