#55 Kanaan Portland 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
Freightliner/G.I. Joe's 200 - Qualifying Notes/Quotes - Saturday, June 23,
2001
Portland International Raceway - Portland, Ore. - 1.969-Mile Road Course
Round 8 of 21 on the 2001 CART FedEx Championship Series

Tony Kanaan and the #55 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard will start
Sunday's Freightliner/G.I. Joe's 200 from the inside of the 11th row after
qualifying today on the 1.969-mile Portland International Raceway road
course.  Kanaan, running in the second qualifying group, recorded a fast lap
of 58.697 seconds (an average of 120.763 mph), his fastest lap of the
weekend by some seven-tenths of a second.

Teammate Alex Zanardi and the #66 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing
Honda-Reynard will start from inside the 13th row after a disappointing run
in the first qualifying group.  His best time was 59.213 seconds (119.710
mph).  Max Papis, who also qualified in the first group with Zanardi, pulled
off the rare feat of earning the pole position from that group, made up of
drivers in the bottom half of the season-long point standings.  Papis' fast
time was 57.785 seconds (120.763 mph), just 47 hundredths of a second behind
the track record set by Helio Castroneves last year.  Cristiano da Matta
qualified second with a time of 57.866 seconds (122.497mph), while
Castroneves was third in 57.944 seconds (122.332 mph).

Race time Sunday is 1 p.m. local time (4 p.m. EDT) with a live broadcast set
for ESPN.  The Sunday morning warm-up show, CART2DAY, will be carried by
ESPN2 at 11 a.m. EDT.

TONY KANAAN

"It's been a tough weekend for us, if you can imagine, for both me and for
Alex.  We obviously have something wrong and we just don't know what it is.
But as a team, we have to keep our heads up and keep our spirits high
because if you get down in this business, you have no chance.  We're a bit
confused right now, which shows that we are human.  We have to put our heads
down and go to work and find a solution to our problems.  It's bad enough to
see where my car is on the grid, but to see a guy named Zanardi starting
last ... that's not right!  Look at what Max (Papis) did today - when you
have a good car, you're going to put up a good result.  We have to make our
cars better, or it's going to be a long day on Sunday."

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