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CART: Tony Kanaan Qualifying Notes and Quotes, Vancouver

3 September 2000

Tony Kanaan and the #55 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Mercedes-Benz Reynard
will start 14th in Sunday’s Molson Indy Vancouver after handling
problems prevented Kanaan from bettering his first-round qualifying time
in today’s final qualifying session.  His time of 1 minute, 1.938
seconds (an average of 103.516 mph) from Friday’s provisional qualifying
session will stand, placing him on the outside of the seventh row when
the green flag falls at 1 p.m. PDT Sunday.  Dario Franchitti will start
from the pole after bettering his pacesetting time from Friday by
clocking in today at 1:00.405 (106.144 mph).

The race will be aired live on ABC-TV.

TONY KANAAN

“We developed an understeer problem that we’ve been fighting all day
today.  It’s so frustrating because we got off to such a good start on
Friday and had hoped to go even faster today.  But we developed the
problem this morning and have been working very hard try to find the
cure.  Unfortunately, we lost five spots on the grid.  That can make
things very difficult during the race on a street track like this one.
But as we’ve seen quite a few times this year, guys like Paul Tracy have
proven that you can win from pretty far back on the grid.  We just have
to go back to the drawing board and try to solve our problem by
tomorrow, and then stay out of trouble in the race.  I think I have a
pretty decent race car.”