#55 Kanaan Laguna Seca Friday Practice Notes/Quotes

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Tony Kanaan

#55 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard
Honda Grand Prix of Monterey - Practice Notes/Quotes - Friday, Oct. 12, 2001
Laguna Seca Raceway - Monterey, Calif. - 2.238-Mile Road Course
Round 19 of 21 on the 2001 CART FedEx Championship Series

Tony Kanaan and the #55 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard clocked the
11th-fastest time in practice this afternoon for Sunday's Honda Grand Prix
of Monterey.  Kanaan made his way around the 2.238-mile Laguna Seca Raceway
road course in 1 minute, 10.189 seconds (an average of 114.787 mph).  His
time was the 13th fastest of the day when combining today's morning and
afternoon sessions.

Teammate Casey Mears and the #66 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing
Honda-Reynard had the 19th-fastest time of the afternoon session and the
23rd-best combined time.  Mears, the 23-year-old replacement for the injured
Alex Zanardi, had a fast time this afternoon of 1:10.894 (113.646 mph).
Defending race winner Helio Castroneves had the best lap of the day, by far,
in this afternoon session at 1:08.838 (117.040 mph).  His teammate, Gil de
Ferran, was almost a half-second behind but second overall at 1:09.345
(116.184 mph), while Mauricio Gugelmin was third best on the day with his
afternoon time of 1:09.514 (115.902 mph).

Practice resumes Saturday morning with qualifying set to begin at 1:45 p.m.
local time (4:45 p.m. EDT).  The CART qualifying show will be broadcast on
ESPN2 at 2 a.m. EDT Sunday.  Race time Sunday at 1 p.m. local time (4 p.m.
EDT) with a live broadcast set for ESPN.

TONY KANAAN

"I hate to say we're struggling.  The problem is a little bit of everything.
I'm having a tough time putting a good car together because I'm having about
four different problems.  I'll fix one, but that will create another problem
at another corner.  We have a lot of work to do.  The Penskes (Castroneves
and de Ferran) are off in another universe right now.  It will be tough to
catch them.  We've got our own problems to work out.  There's nothing we can
say other than we have to go to work even harder."

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