#66 Zanardi Chicago Qualifying Notes/Quotes

Alex Zanardi

#66 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard
Target Grand Prix - Qualifying Notes/Quotes - Saturday, July 28, 2001
Chicago Motor Speedway - Cicero, Ill. - 1-Mile Oval
Round 12 of 21 on the 2001 CART FedEx Championship Series

Alex Zanardi and the #66 Pioneer-WorldCom/Honda-Reynard will start fifth in
Sunday's Target Grand Prix, his best qualifying effort of the season.
Zanardi recorded a fast lap of 23.315 seconds (an average of 158.885 mph)
over the 1-mile Chicago Motor Speedway oval.  He qualified sixth at Texas
earlier this season for a race that was subsequently postponed.

Teammate Tony Kanaan and the #55 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard
secured Mo Nunn Racing's first-ever pole qualifying position today.  Kanaan'
s fast lap of 23.145-second (160.052-mph) earned him his second career pole
and first on an oval. Helio Castroneves will start alongside Kanaan on the
front row after recording the second-fastest qualifying time of 23.148
seconds (160.031 mph).  Adrian Fernandez was third, making it a Honda sweep
of the top three qualifying positions with a run of 23.203 seconds (159.652
mph).  Memo Gidley was fourth at 23.221 seconds (159.528 mph).

Race time Sunday is 3 p.m. CDT (4 p.m. EDT) with a live broadcast set for
ABC-TV.  The Sunday-morning warm-up show CART2DAY can be seen on ESPN2 at 11
a.m. EDT.

ALEX ZANARDI

"I'm so happy for Tony.  He's been working so hard and he deserves the
reward he got today.  As for me, I had the best car I've had all weekend, so
obviously we are moving in the right direction.  I'm pretty satisfied with
my qualifying run.  The car wasn't perfect, but I really wasn't expecting
much better than what we got to begin with.  We ran very well on Friday, but
we took a little bit of a step backward in practice this morning.  So it was
a little bit of a jump in the dark for qualifying.  As you can see, we made
some good decisions because we were able to go a good two-tenths faster than
this morning.  This is a great place. It seems to be an oval much more
suited to our cars than the other mile ovals.  I'm hoping for good things on
Sunday."