#55 Kanaan Milwaukee Saturday Qualifying Notes/Quotes

> Contact:   Laz Denes, 310-538-2599
>                  ldenes@monunnracing.com
>                  www.monunnracing.com
>
> Tony Kanaan
>
> #55 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard
> Miller Lite 225 - Qualifying Notes/Quotes - Saturday, June 2, 2001
> The Milwaukee Mile - Milwaukee, Wis. - 1-Mile Oval
> Round 6 of 21 on the 2001 CART FedEx Championship Series
>
> Rain washed out practice and qualifying today for this weekend's Miller
Lite
> 225 at The Milwaukee Mile.  CART FedEx Championship Series official
> therefore have announced that the starting grid for Sunday's 225-lap main
> event will be set according to the current driver points standings.  That
> puts Tony Kanaan and his #55 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard
seventh
> on the grid, reflecting his current position in the standings.  Kanaan was
> fourth fastest in the two-hour practice session here Friday, the only time
> competitors spent on the historic 1-mile oval so far this weekend.
Kanaan's
> best lap Friday was 22.547 seconds (an average of 164.776 mph).  Rain also
> washed out Friday morning's scheduled 1-hour, 45-minute opening practice
> session.
>
> In previous years, whenever practice time did occur on a given weekend but
> qualifying was rained out or otherwise canceled, CART procedure involved
> gridding cars according to those practice times.
>
> Kanaan's teammate Alex Zanardi and his #66 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing
> Honda-Reynard recorded the fifth-fastest lap of the day Friday at 22.647
> seconds (164.048 mph).  But his 15th position in the current driver points
> standings puts him inside the eighth row for Sunday's race start.  Points
> leader Kenny Brack will start on the pole, alongside last week's Indy 500
> winner Helio Castroneves.  They'll be followed by Cristiano da Matta, Paul
> Tracy, Jimmy Vasser, Gil de Ferran and Kanaan.
>
> Sunday's action begins with a 30-minute warm-up session at 11 a.m. local
> time (12 noon EDT), preceded on the air by the CART2DAY pre-race show at
11
> a.m. EDT.  The green flag falls Sunday at 3 p.m. local time (4 p.m. EDT).
> The race will be broadcast live by ABC-TV.
>
> TONY KANAAN
>
> "Seventh is not a bad place to start, except for when you have at least
the
> fourth-fastest car on the track.  But rules are rules, and the weather is
> something we have absolutely no control over.  We will do what we have to
> do.  It's unfortunate for both Alex and I because he falls all the way
back
> to 15th (after running fifth in practice Friday).  Again, that's the way
it
> is.  Fortunately, we have Morris (Nunn) on our side.  With nothing left to
> get ready for the race but a half-hour (warm-up) on Sunday morning, I
think
> Morris gives us the ability to make the most of the situation.  Hopefully,
> the weather will cooperate tomorrow so we can put on a good show for the
> fans."
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