ArcaEx Indy 500 Practice Report (May 16, 2004)

Driver:  Dario Franchitti
Car:  #27 ArcaEx Dallara/Honda/Firestone

                  Dario Franchitti                                                     Dario Franchitti
                       May 16                                                       All Practice Sessions
      Position               8th                                           Best Speed             219.026 mph
      Speed                  216.923 mph                                   Best Time              41.0911 sec
      Time                   41.4894 sec                                   Total Laps             263
      Laps                   65

                                                      IndyCar Series
                                               Practice Speeds - May 16
                                        1. Bryan Herta                 220.073 mph
                                        2. Tony Kanaan                 219.746 mph
                                        3. Alex Barron                 218.952 mph
                                        4. Bruno Junqueira             217.839 mph
                                        5. Helio Castroneves           217.660 mph

Dario Franchitti, #27 ArcaEx Dallara/Honda/Firestone
          "It was nice to get qualifying behind us yesterday. Now, we can just focus on one thing, which is
obviously the race. There was always that question of 'how fast can we go, how fast do we need to go.'
I'm a lot happier now and we're definitely getting a lot closer with the ArcaEx car. We're only interested in
one thing now. We're starting up front and we're going to try and get a car to win the race with."

Dario Franchitti Facts
       Franchitti will start on the outside of the front row in the 88th Indianapolis 500.
       Indianapolis marks Franchitti's eighth IndyCar Series start and second start in the Indianapolis 500.
       In his only other Indy 500 start (2002), Franchitti qualified 28th and finished 19th.
       Franchitti is coming off his first top-10 finish of the season, which came in the form of a seventh at
       Twin Ring Motegi on April 17.

Allen McDonald, Race Engineer, #27 ArcaEx Dallara/Honda/Firestone
          "We're very happy with the baseline race setup on the ArcaEx car. We worked with both Dan and
Tony, and learned a lot by working together like that. We have some things that we need to improve on
and some things that we need to test on Wednesday. But, I think we're really encouraged by our