#10 Kanaan CART Montreal Saturday Final Qualifying

MONTREAL (Saturday, Aug. 24, 2002) -- Tony Kanaan and the #10
Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Lola improved almost eight-tenths of a
second on Friday's provisional qualifying effort but remained on the inside
of the seventh row for the start of Sunday's inaugural Molson Indy Montreal
after final qualifying today.  Kanaan turned a hot lap of 1 minute, 20.010
seconds (121.890 mph) on his next-to-last trip around the 2.747-mile Circuit
Gilles-Villeneuve.  It was by far his best lap of the weekend, but not good
enough to move him up from the 13th spot on the grid.

Provisional polesitter Cristiano da Matta turned in a remarkable lap of
1:18.959 (123.512 mph) to improve on his best lap Friday by a half-second to
hold onto the pole.  Dario Franchitti moved up to the outside-front-row
starting spot with a lap of 1:19.334 (122.928 mph) while Bruno Junqueira was
third at 1:19.347 (122.908 mph).

Race time Sunday is 2 p.m. EDT with a live broadcast set for SPEED Channel
beginning with a 30-minute pre-race show at 1:30 p.m. EDT.

TONY KANAAN QUOTES

"We've been fighting a lot of understeer all weekend and we've been
struggling to find the solution.  On this track, if the front of your car is
not working, you're done.  The corners are so close together, and the
chicanes are so fast, that you really have to be able to attack, and develop
a smooth rhythm.  All we can do is keep working on it and hope we get it
worked out by race time.  Hey, we proved last week (at Road America) that we
can start in the back and go to the front on race day.  I didn't turn a
single good lap in qualifying, started 18th and finished fourth.
Unfortunately, this week isn't a whole lot better to this point, but we're
not going to quit.  It's going to be a long race, and this track really is
hard on the equipment and hard on the drivers.  Any track where you do this
much upshifting and downshifting and going from side to side is hard on you
and your car.  You're going to see a lot of people making a lot of mistakes,
and you're going to see equipment failures, like gearboxes going away.  The
key will be to stay clean and hang in there until the end.  We're coming off
a good race, so I hope we've got momentum on our side."

#10 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Lola
Molson Indy Montreal - Saturday, Aug. 24, 2002 - Final Qualifying
Notes/Quotes
Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve - Montreal, Quebec - 2.747-Mile Road Course
Round 13 of 19 on the 2002 CART FedEx Championship Series