#17 Kanaan Indy 500 May 5 Practice

Tony Kanaan

#17 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Chevrolet G-Force
86th Indianapolis 500 - Practice Notes/Quotes - Sunday, May 5, 2002
Indianapolis Motor Speedway - 2.5-Mile Oval
Round 5 of 15 on the 2002 Indy Racing League

Tony Kanaan and the #17 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Chevrolet G-Force opened
practice for this year's 86th running of the Indianapolis 500 with a fast
lap of 224.324 mph around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval.  It
was the 19th-fastest lap recorded today.  Kanaan, competing in his first
career Indy 500, is with Mo Nunn Racing for his third season running in the
CART FedEx Championship Series in 2002.  The 1999 U.S. 500 winner this month
is teaming with fellow Brazilian Felipe Giaffone, who drives Hollywood/Mo
Nunn Racing's full-time entry on the 2002 Indy Racing League circuit.
Kanaan turned a total of 33 laps today.

Giaffone and the #21 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Chevrolet G-Force opened
practice today with a fast lap of 225.043 mph.  It was the 13th-fastest lap
of the day today and the fastest lap ever at the Speedway for Giaffone, last
season's Indy Racing League Rookie of the Year while with Treadway/Hubbard
Racing who had never broken the 220-mph barrier before today.  Giaffone
turned a total of 34 laps today.  This is his first season with Hollywood/Mo
Nunn Racing, which is competing here for the first time in its three-year
existence.  Giaffone finished 10th in last year's Indy 500.

Scott Sharp, last year's polesitter here, had the fast lap of opening day at
227.571 mph.  Last year's race-winner, Helio Castroneves, was second-fastest
at 227.408 mph, followed by two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser, Jr., at
226.885 mph.  Practice resumes Monday at 11 a.m. local time (noon EDT) with
Pole Day qualifying set for Saturday.

TONY KANAAN

"It's good to get that first day behind us.  I'm really happy to be here,
but I won't say that I'm happy to be in 19th.  But as everyone's been
telling me, it's all about patience here, and we have a long way to go until
qualifying.  This was only my second day ever driving on this track.  It's
an absolutely wonderful place, and I just can't wait till race day.  But
whenever I say that, Morris (team owner Morris Nunn) is very quick to remind
me that we have to take this one day at a time.  I think 224 is a good
baseline, and we have some of the most experienced engineering minds at the
Speedway thinking about how to make us go faster.  It's another day
tomorrow, and hopefully it will bring us a few more miles per hour."