THE DETROIT FREE PRESS Detroit, MI June 19, , 2000 Reality is JULIAN H. GONZALEZ/Detroit Free Press Helio Castroneves celebrates better than during his victory lap: "It's just such a great feeling." his dreams Teary Castroneves truly TIME FOR TONY: Castroneves had one more stop before catch- savors his first victory ing a flight to his Miami home. That was Detroit Receiving Hos- By STEVE CROWE pital to visit his close friend and FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER fellow CART driver Tony Kan- aan, also a Brazilian. Funny thing about other peo- Kanaan, hurt in a crash during ple's dreams: They don't come KICKING WHEN DOWN: If you weren't from Detroit and didn't qualifying Saturday, had successful true every day, either. appreciate Belle Isle's beauty, you surgery Saturday night on his It's what Helio Castroneves was able to laugh about more than might have chuckled at an offhand compound left-forearm fracture. Kanaan, 25, suffered breaks in both an hour after getting his first remark new CART chief execu- CART FedEx win in Sunday's De- tive officer Bobby Rahal made to. forearm bones. Two plates and 14 troit Grand Prix. Most of his first reporters and others as the rain screws were inserted during the 30 post-win minutes were taken fell Sunday morning. two-hour, 15-minute operation. Kanaan, who also sustained a by tears. "This is supposed to be a mild concussion and fractured "You know, I kind of have a lot world-class motorsports facility, not Woodstock," quipped Rahal, ribs, is expected to be released of winning dreams," Castroneves who was given the job on an inter- today. said. "And people around me also im basis when Andrew Craig was "We're very close, from go- said, 'Oh, I dreamed that you won karts and when we were team- a race.' And I say, "Damn it. stop forced out Friday. CART announced earlier this mates with Tasman," Castroneves dreaming it, or tell me about it after I get it. The pressure, that year that inext year would be its said of their Indy Lights days to- last racing on Belle Isle. Poor gether with Tasman Motorsports. was getting pretty bad. In 1997, Castroneves finished sec- "But it's just such a great feel- drainage and attendance were ing. Great féeling." cited among the reasons CART ond to Kanaan in points. In the dream he lived out Sun- can't wait to leave. "It changed, of course, when we Rahal was perhaps somewhat came over here to champ cars. We day, after taking a fist-pumping confused. Unlike CART, a wet were each doing our own thing victory lap, he stopped on the with different teams. But we've front stretch. "When I got there, I Woodstock"dr crowds of sev- didn't see nobody," Castroneves eral hundred thousand people. kind of come closer again and said of Team Penske mates who Sunday's race drew an estimated we've talked, and I just feel terrible about the accident like that. were already celebrating on the 50,500, down from last year's "I wish he was here with us other side of pit road. 53,000 and the event's fourth today. I would share this with him, "Normally, they would just stay straight.attendance dip. but I don't-think he would like it. there. And I had to share that Spurred by a slightly larger Free Prix Friday crowd, the three- He would be jealous. And I would feeling with somebody. So I went day total of 138,000-was up from: say, 'Hey, you will have your time. upsthe wall and yelled with the last year's 132,000. Kanaan is winless in 45 CART people. TI was wild. It is just the starts. way I express myself." Source: https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/docs/ffbb0076