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CART: Votes still pouring in for most popular driver

24 August 2000

Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
More than 10,000 ballots have been cast for the second annual WorldCom Most Popular Driver Award and Sweepstakes, which continues through September 18. Most of those votes have been cast on the Internet, at cart.com or worldcomracing.com. Ballots are also available in Champ Car, Championship Racing and Racer magazines and in all FedEx Championship Series event programs through the Sept. 17 Motorola 300 at Gateway International Raceway. Balloting may also be done at all FedEx Championship Series events through Sept. 17.

Through ballots tabulated as of Aug. 17, the top five vote-getters, in alphabetical order, were Michael Andretti (Big Kmart/Texaco/Havoline Ford Lola), Adrian Fernandez (Tecate/Quaker State/Patrick Racing Ford Reynard), Juan Montoya (Target Toyota Lola), Paul Tracy (KOOL Honda Reynard) and Jimmy Vasser (Target Toyota Lola). The winner will receive his award at the season-ending FedEx Championship Series Awards Banquet on Oct. 30 in Los Angeles. In conjunction with the award, one voter will be selected to receive a trip for two to Los Angeles for the season-ending FedEx Championship Series event, the Oct. 29 The 500 Presented by Toyota at California Speedway. He and a guest will also attend the banquet the following night, where he will present the Most Popular Driver Award, and a check for $25,000 in the name of the winning driver, to the driver's charity of choice.

Text provided by T.E. McHale

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