#21 Giaffone IRL Texas Friday Final Practice

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Felipe Giaffone

#21 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Chevrolet G-Force
Boomtown 500 - Friday, June 7, 2002 - Final Practice Notes/Quotes
Texas Motor Speedway - Fort Worth, Texas - 1.5-Mile Oval
Round 6 of 15 on the 2002 Indy Racing League

Felipe Giaffone and the #21 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Racing Chevrolet G-Force
wrapped up preparations for Saturday night's Boomtown 500 Indy Racing League
event at Texas Motor Speedway with the 10th-fastest lap of today's final
practice session on the 1.5-mile oval.  He clocked a fast lap of 23.938
seconds (218.813 mph) today, a full half-second faster than his best
qualifying lap on Thursday night.  He will start 18th in Saturday's
500-kilometer event under the lights.  Earlier in the day today, Giaffone
had the 12th-fastest lap in the next-to-last practice session of the
weekend.

Eddie Cheever had the fastest final practice lap at 23.570 seconds (222.228
mph), followed by Sam Hornish at 23.595 seconds (221.990 mph) and polesitter
Tomas Scheckter at 23.637 seconds (221.600 mph).  Cheever will start on the
outside of the front row and Hornish will start eighth.

Race time Saturday is 7 p.m. local time (8 p.m. EDT) with a live broadcast
set for ESPN.

FELIPE GIAFFONE

"We have the car working pretty well right now.  It's still not the fastest
car on the track, but it's working well in traffic, which will be very
important here because we will definitely need to be able to stay in contact
with the leaders.  I think if our pit strategy works out, we should have a
pretty good result tomorrow.  I'm definitely feeling much more comfortable
in the car than I did yesterday.  We put a new engine in the car before we
started practice today and it helped make a huge difference.  I'm
comfortable, and the car is working well in the draft.  Those are all good
signs that we should be in pretty good shape tomorrow night.  No matter what
happens, it's going to be exciting to race under the lights for the first
time this year."

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