#66 Zanardi Portland Saturday Qualifying Notes/Quotes

Contact:   Laz Denes, 310-538-2599
                 ldenes@monunnracing.com
                 www.monunnracing.com

Alex Zanardi

#66 Pioneer-WorldCom/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

Alex Zanardi and the #66 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard will
start Sunday's Freightliner/G.I. Joe's 200 from inside the 13th row.
Zanardi had a disappointing run in the first qualifying group, setting a
fast lap of 59.213 seconds (an average of 119.710 mph) over the 1.969-mile
Portland International Raceway road course.

Teammate Tony Kanaan and the #55 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard will
start from the inside of the 11th row after recording a fast lap of 58.697
seconds (120.763 mph).  It was Kanaan's fastest lap of the weekend by some
seven-tenths of a second.  Max Papis, who 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.

ALEX ZANARDI

"This is the first time in my career that I'm starting a race from the last
position.  That's probably all I have to say for you to realize how it
feels.  Obviously, we are very disappointed.  I am sorry for all the
mechanics who have been working so very, very hard.  Unfortunately, this is
the result.  We are obviously having problems that we do not have the
answers for, or else we would most definitely be a lot farther up the grid.
It can't get any worse, that's for sure.  But, we all know that Sunday is
the day we all live for in this business.  It's the day that matters most.
So we can wake up in the morning with the hope that we will have all of our
problems sorted out."

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