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2001 Miller Lite 225

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{{American Championshp Car race report infobox

|Country = United States

|Race = Miller Lite 225

|Image = The Milwaukee Mile.svg

|Caption =

|Date = June 3

|Year = 2001

|Series = CART

|Official name = 2001 Miller Lite 225

|Race_No = 6

|Season_No = 21

|Location = Milwaukee Mile, West Allis, Wisconsin, United States

|Course = Oval

|Course_mi = 1

|Course_km = 1.6

|Distance_laps = 225

|Distance_mi = 225

|Distance_km = 362.102

|Weather =

|Pole_Driver = {{flagicon|Sweden}} Kenny Bräck

|Pole_Team = Team Rahal

|Pole_Time = No time

|Pole_Country = Sweden

|Fast_Driver = {{flagicon|Scotland}} Dario Franchitti

|Fast_Team = Team Green

|Fast_Time = 23.277

|Fast_Lap = 201

|Fast_Country = Scotland

|First_Driver = {{flagicon|Sweden}} Kenny Bräck

|First_Team = Team Rahal

|First_Country = Sweden

|Second_Driver = {{flagicon|USA}} Michael Andretti

|Second_Team = Team Motorola

|Second_Country = USA

|Third_Driver = {{flagicon|New Zealand}} Scott Dixon

|Third_Team = PacWest Racing

|Third_Country = New Zealand

}}

The 2001 Miller Lite 225 was a Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) motor race held on June 3, 2001, at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin, USA. It was the 6th round of the 2001 CART FedEx Championship Series season. Team Rahal's Kenny Bräck scored his second career and second consecutive CART race win ahead of a resurgent Michael Andretti and rookie Scott Dixon.

Bräck's second win in a row cemented his status at the top of the drivers' standings, now thirty points ahead of 2nd place Hélio Castroneves. This was Andretti's first podium of the year and his first after leaving Newman/Haas Racing; he was the only car that seemed capable of challenging Bräck for the win as the race went on. Dixon, who had won at Nazareth earlier in the season, picked up his second career podium and PacWest Racing's final podium in the series.

The race saw multiple crashes take out several championship contenders, as Cristiano da Matta, in a repeat of the previous race at Motegi, crashed on Lap 1 with Castroneves; Paul Tracy then crashed a few laps later. Jimmy Vasser, who was running 3rd, was taken out by Tora Takagi while trying to lap him on Lap 132; Takagi would be disqualified two laps later for his role in the accident. Finally, Christian Fittipaldi and Nicolas Minassian collided near the end of the race, which would prompt Chip Ganassi Racing to drop the latter after the next race in Detroit.

Qualifying

Qualifying was rained out; the lineup was determined by points standings.{{cite web|title=CART Saturday Qualifying Summary |publisher=Championship Auto Racing Teams |date=June 2, 2001 |url=http://www.cart.com:80/News/Article.asp?ID=778 |accessdate=June 1, 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030328025401/http://www.cart.com/News/Article.asp?ID=778 |archivedate=March 28, 2003 |url-status=dead |df= }}

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colspan=3|Qualifying not held — Starting lineup
RankDriverTeam
1

|{{flagicon|Sweden}} Kenny Bräck

|Team Rahal

2

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Hélio Castroneves

|Team Penske

3

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Cristiano da Matta

|Newman-Haas Racing

4

|{{flagicon|Canada}} Paul Tracy

|Team Green

5

|{{flagicon|USA}} Jimmy Vasser

|Patrick Racing

6

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Gil de Ferran

|Team Penske

7

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Tony Kanaan

|Mo Nunn Racing

8

|{{flagicon|New Zealand}} Scott Dixon (R)

|PacWest Racing

9

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Christian Fittipaldi

|Newman-Haas Racing

10

|{{flagicon|USA}} Michael Andretti

|Team Motorola

11

|{{flagicon|Scotland}} Dario Franchitti

|Team Green

12

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Bruno Junqueira (R)

|Chip Ganassi Racing

13

|{{flagicon|Italy}} Max Papis

|Team Rahal

14

|{{flagicon|France}} Nicolas Minassian (R)

|Chip Ganassi Racing

15

|{{flagicon|Italy}} Alex Zanardi

|Mo Nunn Racing

16

|{{flagicon|Japan}} Shinji Nakano

|Fernandez Racing

17

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Roberto Moreno

|Patrick Racing

18

|{{flagicon|Spain}} Oriol Servià

|Sigma Autosport

19

|{{flagicon|Japan}} Tora Takagi (R)

|Walker Motorsport

20

|{{flagicon|USA}} Bryan Herta

|Forsythe Racing

21

|{{flagicon|Mexico}} Michel Jourdain Jr.

|Bettenhausen Racing

22

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Maurício Gugelmin

|PacWest Racing

23

|{{flagicon|Mexico}} Adrian Fernández

|Fernandez Racing

24

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Max Wilson (R)

|Arciero Racing

25

|{{flagicon|Canada}} Alex Tagliani

|Forsythe Racing

26

|{{flagicon|Canada}} Patrick Carpentier

|Forsythe Racing

colspan="3"|{{center|{{small|Source:{{cite web|title=2001 Miller Lite 225 Race Results |publisher=Championship Auto Racing Teams |date=June 3, 2001 |url=http://www.cart.com:80/Results/SessionResults.asp?ID=153 |accessdate=June 1, 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030110142159/http://www.cart.com/Results/SessionResults.asp?ID=153 |archivedate=January 10, 2003 |url-status=dead |df= }}}}}}

Race

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PosNoDriverTeamLapsTime/retiredGridPoints
1

|8

|{{flagicon|Sweden}} Kenny Bräck

|Team Rahal

|225

|1:54:08.097

|1

|21{{ref|1|1}}

2

|39

|{{flagicon|USA}} Michael Andretti

|Team Motorola

|225

| +1.307

|10

|16

3

|18

|{{flagicon|New Zealand}} Scott Dixon (R)

|PacWest Racing

|225

| +3.001

|8

|14

4

|4

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Bruno Junqueira (R)

|Chip Ganassi Racing

|225

| +6.714

|12

|12

5

|51

|{{flagicon|Mexico}} Adrian Fernández

|Fernandez Racing

|225

| +9.702

|23

|10

6

|55

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Tony Kanaan

|Mo Nunn Racing

|225

| +10.291

|7

|8

7

|1

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Gil de Ferran

|Team Penske

|225

| +12.821

|6

|6

8

|7

|{{flagicon|Italy}} Max Papis

|Team Rahal

|225

| +17.780

|13

|5

9

|27

|{{flagicon|Scotland}} Dario Franchitti

|Team Green

|224

| +1 Lap

|11

|4

10

|17

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Maurício Gugelmin

|PacWest Racing

|224

| +1 Lap

|22

|3

11

|66

|{{flagicon|Italy}} Alex Zanardi

|Mo Nunn Racing

|224

| +1 Lap

|15

|2

12

|33

|{{flagicon|Canada}} Alex Tagliani

|Forsythe Racing

|224

| +1 Lap

|25

|1

13

|16

|{{flagicon|Mexico}} Michel Jourdain Jr.

|Bettenhausen Racing

|224

| +1 Lap

|21

|—

14

|22

|{{flagicon|Spain}} Oriol Servià

|Sigma Autosport

|224

| +1 Lap

|18

|—

15

|20

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Roberto Moreno

|Patrick Racing

|224

| +1 Lap

|17

|—

16

|52

|{{flagicon|Japan}} Shinji Nakano

|Fernandez Racing

|224

| +1 Lap

|16

|—

17

|32

|{{flagicon|Canada}} Patrick Carpentier

|Forsythe Racing

|223

| +2 Laps

|26

|—

18

|11

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Christian Fittipaldi

|Newman-Haas Racing

|204

|Contact

|9

|—

19

|12

|{{flagicon|France}} Nicolas Minassian (R)

|Chip Ganassi Racing

|203

|Contact

|14

|—

20

|5

|{{flagicon|Japan}} Tora Takagi (R)

|Walker Motorsport

|134

|Disqualified{{cite web|title=Walker Racing Report |publisher=Championship Auto Racing Teams |date=June 4, 2001 |url=http://www.cart.com:80/News/Article.asp?ID=803 |accessdate=June 1, 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030125190808/http://www.cart.com/News/Article.asp?ID=803 |archivedate=January 25, 2003 |url-status=dead |df= }}

|19

|—

21

|40

|{{flagicon|USA}} Jimmy Vasser

|Patrick Racing

|132

|Contact

|5

|—

22

|77

|{{flagicon|USA}} Bryan Herta

|Forsythe Racing

|73

|Spark plug

|20

|—

23

|25

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Max Wilson (R)

|Arciero Racing

|43

|Electrical

|24

|—

24

|26

|{{flagicon|Canada}} Paul Tracy

|Team Green

|11

|Contact

|4

|—

25

|6

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Cristiano da Matta

|Newman-Haas Racing

|1

|Contact

|3

|—

26

|3

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Hélio Castroneves

|Team Penske

|0

|Contact

|2

|—

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  • {{ref|1|1}}– Includes one bonus point for leading the most laps.{{Cite web|url=http://pdfsr.com/pdf/cart-2001-rule-book-electronic-version-1 |title=CART FedEx Championship Series – 2001 Rule Book |last=Championship Auto Racing Teams |first= |date=March 2001 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528174124/http://pdfsr.com/pdf/cart-2001-rule-book-electronic-version-1 |archive-date=May 28, 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |access-date=May 22, 2017 |df= }}
  • *The bonus point for pole position was not awarded as qualifying was rained out.

Race statistics

  • Lead changes: 12 among 9 drivers

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!colspan=2|Lap Leaders{{cite web|title=2001 Miller Lite 225|publisher=Racing-Reference.info|url=http://racing-reference.info/race/2001_Miller_Lite_225/R|accessdate=June 1, 2017}}

Laps

! Leader

1–80Kenny Bräck
81–90Michael Andretti
91–92Jimmy Vasser
93–100Tony Kanaan
101–102Scott Dixon
103Alex Tagliani
104Patrick Carpentier
105Michel Jourdain Jr.
106–110Adrian Fernández
111–128Michael Andretti
129–135Kenny Bräck
136–182Michael Andretti
183–225Kenny Bräck

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!colspan=2|Total laps led

Leader

! Laps

Kenny Bräck130
Michael Andretti75
Tony Kanaan8
Adrian Fernández5
Scott Dixon2
Jimmy Vasser2
Alex Tagliani1
Patrick Carpentier1
Michel Jourdain Jr.1

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!colspan=2|Cautions: 5 for 48 laps{{cite web|title=Miller Lite 225 Sunday Press Notes |publisher=Championship Auto Racing Teams |date=June 3, 2001 |url=http://www.cart.com:80/News/Article.asp?ID=792 |accessdate=June 1, 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030125190655/http://www.cart.com/News/Article.asp?ID=792 |archivedate=January 25, 2003 |url-status=dead |df= }}

Laps

! Reason

0–11da Matta and Castroneves crash
11–20Paul Tracy crashes
108–120zanardi crashes in Turn 4
132–142Jimmy Vasser crashes
205–218Fittipaldi and Minassian crash

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Standings after the race

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;Drivers' standings {{cite web|title=Ford Racing Detroit Preview|publisher=Motorsport.com|url=https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/news/champcar-cart-ford-racing-detroit-preview/?s=1|accessdate=June 1, 2017}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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Pos

!+/-

!Driver

!Points

1

|align="left"| 10px

|{{flagicon|Sweden}} Kenny Bräck

|align="center"|70

2

|align="left"| 10px

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Hélio Castroneves

|align="center"|47

3

|align="left"| 10px

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} Cristiano da Matta

|align="center"|40

—

|align="left"| 10px

|{{flagicon|Canada}} Paul Tracy

|align="center"|40

—

|align="left"| 10px

|{{flagicon|USA}} Jimmy Vasser

|align="center"|40

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;Constructors' standings

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Pos

! +/–

! Constructor

! Points

1

|align="left"| 10px

|{{flagicon|UK}} Lola

|align="center"| 98

2

|align="left"| 10px 1

|{{flagicon|UK}} Reynard

|align="center"| 93

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;Manufacturer's Standings

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Pos

! +/-

! Manufacturer

! Points

1

|align="left"| 10px

|{{flagicon|JPN}} Honda

|align="center"| 86

2

|align="left"| 10px

|{{flagicon|JPN}} Toyota

|align="center"| 84

3

|align="left"| 10px

|{{flagicon|UK}} Ford-Cosworth

|align="center"| 73

4

|align="left"| 10px

|{{flagicon|UK}} Phoenix

|align="center"| 0

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References

{{reflist}}

{{CART World Series race report|

Name_of_race = Miller Lite 225 |

Year_of_race = 2001 |

Previous_race_in_season = 2001 Firestone Firehawk 500 |

Next_race_in_season = 2001 Tenneco Automotive Grand Prix of Detroit |

Previous_year's_race = 2000 Miller Lite 225 |

Next_year's_race = 2002 Miller Lite 250 |

}}

{{2001 CART Season}}

Miller Lite 225

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