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CART: Tony Kanaan, Motegi Thursday Practice Notes/Quotes

11 May 2000

Firestone Firehawk 500

#55 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Mercedes-Benz Reynard
May 11, 2000 – Practice Notes/Quotes
Round 5 of 20 on the 2000 CART FedEx Championship Series
Twin Ring Motegi – Motegi, Haga gun, Japan

Tony Kanaan was third-fastest in this morning’s opening session and
ninth-fastest overall today in practice for Saturday’s Firestone
Firehawk 500.  Kanaan and his #55 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Mercedes-Benz
Reynard recorded a fast lap of 26.517 seconds (an average of 210.295
mph) over the 1.546-mile Twin Ring Motegi oval in the morning session.
He reached 26.640 seconds (209.324 mph) in today’s afternoon session
before an oil system problem forced the team to end the 90-minute
session some 20 minutes early.  Kenny Brack was fastest overall on the
day with his lap of 26.072 seconds (213.885 mph) in the afternoon
session.

Practice resumes Friday morning with qualifying set for 1:15 p.m. local
time.  Saturday’s race, Round Five on this year’s 20-event CART FedEx
Championship Series, is set for noon, local time, (11 p.m. EDT Friday)
with an ABC-TV tape-delayed broadcast on tap for 1 p.m. EDT.

TONY KANAAN

“It was a good-news, bad-news kind of a day.  We got off to a great
start this morning and I definitely feel we are headed in the right
direction.  The unfortunate thing is we had our share of problems in the
afternoon session, which is very frustrating after all the momentum we
had going this morning.  Hopefully, our problems are behind us.  The
outlook for us during qualifying and the race is good.  Tomorrow’s
another day and I’m looking forward to a fresh start.”