User:Rmward10/1994 slick 50 200

The 1994 Slick 50 200 was held on April 10, 1994 and was the second round of the 1994 PPG Indycar World Series. The race was won by Emerson Fittipaldi.

Race

On lap 63, Teo Fabi attempted to lap Hiro Matsushita entering turn 3. The two cars touched wheels sending both into the outside wall just as Stefan Johansson and the leader, Paul Tracy were approaching from behind. Johansson successfully avoided the accident on the inside and Tracy braked and attempted to avoid the accident on the outside, but was caught with nowhere to go, was collected by Matsushita. The three cars came to rest in the outside of turn 4 and Tracy began to climb out of the car. Two other cars drove under the accident on the inside, but behind, a pack of two cars, one of whom was Arie Luyendyk, slowed as they approached the accident scene taking up the entire inside lane. Jacques Villeneuve, still running at high speed, came upon the accident scene quickly. Villeneuve jinked to the outside to avoid the slowing cars, but did not see the wrecked cars of Matsushita and Tracy until he was nearly upon them. With nowhere to go and no grip to stop the car as he was now in the 'grey' on the outside of turn 4, Villeneuve plowed head-on into the side of Mastushita's car, removing the engine and gearbox and knocking Tracy's car into the outside wall. In an interview with ESPN's Jon Beekhuis, Tracy recalled that, "Somebody's [Matsushita's] motor just clobbered me right in the side." Villeneuve's car continued to roll towards the inside of the turn 4 exit after the impact. Dominic Dobson tried to drive under Villeneuve's car, but ran out of room on the inside and interlocked wheels with Villeneuve's car, which launched him over Villeneuve's nose and back onto the track, breaking the front wing and suspension.

On lap ___ Nigel Mansell made his final pitstop. Wanting to avoid a stall, as he had done on his first stop, he hit the accelerator hard, causing massive rear wheelspin and lighting up both of his rear tires as he pulled out of the pits. However, this caused an imbalance in grip between his front and rear tires as the rear tires now had much more grip than the front tires as the rears were now much warmer. This caused Mansell to understeer out of the warm-up lane and onto the grass verge that separated the warm-up lane from the track. Mansell re-joined the track directly in front of traffic and was nearly hit from behind by Buddy Lazier (mistakenly identified by ESPN reporter Derek Daly as Scott Goodyear), who managed to avoid him on the inside.

On Lap 166, Mario Andretti crashed on the backstretch. As the field came upon the accident scene, John Paul Jr., Scott Goodyear, and Micha

Race Results

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Chassis/Engine	Laps	Status	Grid	Pts
1	2	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Penske	Penske/Ilmor-D	200	Running
2	31	Al Unser Jr.	Team Penske	Penske/Ilmor-D
3	1	Nigel Mansell	Newman-Haas Racing	Lola/Ford Cosworth XB
4	16	Stefan Johansson	Bettenhausen Motorsports	Penske/Ilmor-D
5	18	Jimmy Vasser	Hayhoe Racing	Reynard/Ford Cosworth XB
6	10	Mike Groff	Rahal/Hogan Racing	Lola/Honda
7	9	Robby Gordon	Walker Racing	Lola/Ford Cosworth XB
8	5	Raul Boesel	Dick Simon Racing	Lola/Ford Cosworth XB
9	71	Scott Sharp	PacWest Racing Group	Lola/Ford Cosworth XB
10	7	Adrian Fernández	Galles Racing	Reynard/Ilmor-D
11	40	Scott Goodyear	King Racing	Lola/Ford Cosworth XB
12	14	Davy Jones	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	Lola/Ford Cosworth XB
13	23	Buddy Lazier	Leader Card Racing	Lola/Ilmor-D
14	4	Bobby Rahal	Rahal/Hogan Racing	Lola/Honda
15	88	Mauricio Gugelmin	Chip Ganassi Racing	Reynard/Ford Cosworth XB
16	25	Marco Greco	Arciero Racing	Lola/Ford Cosworth XB
17	55	Jeff Andretti	Euromotorsport	Lola/Ilmor-C
18	45	John Paul Jr.	ProFormance Racing	Lola/Ilmor-C
19	19	Brian Till	Dale Coyne Racing	Lola/Ford Cosworth XB
20	8	Michael Andretti	Chip Ganassi Racing	Reynard/Ford Cosworth XB
21	6	Mario Andretti	Newman-Haas Racing	Lola/Ford Cosworth XB
22	28	Arie Luyendyk	Indy Regency Racing	Lola/Ilmor-D
23	3	Paul Tracy	Team Penske	Penske-Ilmor D
24	17	Dominic Dobson	PacWest Racing Group	Lola/Ford Cosworth XB
25	12	Jacques Villeneuve	Forsythe/Green Racing	Reynard/Ford Cosworth XB
26	11	Teo Fabi	Jim Hall Racing	Reynard/Ilmor-D
27	22	Hiro Matsushita	Dick Simon Racing	Lola/Ford Cosworth XB
28	24	Willy T. Ribbs	Walker Racing	Lola/Ford Cosworth XB

References

http://racing-reference.info/race/1994_Slick_50_200_(April)/R

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/04/11/Fittipaldi-wins-crash-filled-Slick-50-200-Indy-Car/2473766036800/

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