#55 Kanaan Laguna Seca Sunday Qualifying Notes/Quotes

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Tony Kanaan

#55 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard
Honda Grand Prix of Monterey - Qualifying Notes/Quotes - Saturday, Oct. 13,
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 qualified
sixth for Sunday's Honda Grand Prix of Monterey.  He toured the 2.238-mile
Laguna Seca Raceway road course in 1 minute, 9.515 seconds (an average of
115.900 mph) for the outside-third-row starting spot.

Mo Nunn Racing teammate Casey Mears and the #66 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn
Racing Honda-Reynard will start Sunday's race on the outside of the ninth
row.  Mears, the 23-year-old nephew of three-time CART champion Rick Mears
and replacement for the injured Alex Zanardi for the second race in a row,
clocked a fast lap of 1:10.425 (114.403 mph).  It was the sixth-fastest time
in today's first of two qualifying groups, and the 18th-fastest time
overall.  Current points leader and defending series champion Gil de Ferran
grabbed the top spot in 1:08.596 (117.453 mph) with fellow Team Penske
driver and defending race winner Helio Castroneves alongside on the front
row after a lap of 1:08.678 (117.313 mph).  Rookie Scott Dixon qualified
third in 1:08.972 (116.813 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 are set for ESPN2 at 11
a.m. EDT.  Today's qualifying highlights can be seen on ESPN2 at 2 a.m. EDT
Sunday.

TONY KANAAN

"I'd like to say we're satisfied with that effort but we're not.  I went out
and set a fast time early, and then we made a change that probably we
shouldn't have because it didn't help us go any faster.  That's what
happens.  This is a risk business.  We still have a lot of work to do to
give ourselves a competitive race car.  We're a lot better off than a lot of
other people, on paper, but this is such a difficult place to pass that I
sure would love to have started even closer to the front.  Let's see what
happens tomorrow.  It'll be the usual story - keep the leaders in sight and
stay out of trouble."

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