#21 Kanaan CART Motegi THURSDAY Practice

Tony Kanaan

#10 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard
Bridgestone Potenza 500 - Practice Notes/Quotes - Thursday, April 25, 2002
Twin Ring Motegi - Motegi-machi, Haga-gun, Japan - 1.5-Mile Oval
Round 3 of 20 on the 2002 CART FedEx Championship Series

Tony Kanaan and the #10 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard
clocked the fifth-fastest practice time of the day today in preparation for
Saturday's Bridgestone Potenza 500.  His best lap came in today's afternoon
session, a 26.117-second (213.378-mph) effort around the Twin Ring Motegi
1.5-mile oval.  Kanaan, who recorded Mo Nunn Racing's first-ever podium
finish here last year, had the fourth-best practice time in this morning's
opening session at 26.346 seconds (211.524 mph).

All of the fastest cars today recorded their best times in the afternoon
session, led by Bruno Junqueira at 25.983 seconds (214.479 mph).  Patrick
Carpentier was second at 26.015 seconds (214.215 mph), followed by Dario
Franchitti at 26.020 seconds (214.174 mph), Cristiano da Matta at 26.082
seconds (213.665 mph), and Kanaan.

Practice resumes Friday at 9:30 a.m. local time (8:30 p.m. EDT Thursday)
with qualifying set for 1:45 p.m. local time (12:45 a.m. EDT) Friday.  Speed
Channel will show a tape-delayed, two-hour CART qualifying show at 2 p.m.
EDT Friday, and its "CART Friday Night" show at 10:30 p.m. EDT Friday.

Race time Saturday is 12:30 p.m. local time (11:30 p.m. EDT Friday).  Speed
Channel's tape-delayed race broadcast is at 12:30 p.m. EDT Saturday,
preceded immediately by a 30-minute pre-race show at noon.

Live timing and scoring is available for all sessions, as well as a live
audio feed for Saturday's qualifying session and Sunday's race, at
www.cart.com.

TONY KANAAN

"We were running fast all day until the final five minutes of the afternoon
session.  So, overall, we've got to be happy with where we are.  But, for
some reason, when we changed tires at the end of the afternoon session like
everybody else did, the car got a little bit out of balance and we dropped a
little bit in the order.  My car actually picked up just enough of a push in
Turn 2, so that's something we will have to fix for qualifying. At least we
know the problem and we know how to fix it, and I'm very confident we have a
good, comfortable race car that I seem to be able to drive anywhere on the
track.  I ran 70 laps on the same set of tires from this morning into the
afternoon and the car felt great.  We just need to fix what happened there
at the end of the day."