#10 Kanaan CART Laguna Saturday Final Qualifying

Tony Kanaan

#10 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Lola
Bridgestone Grand Prix of Monterey
Saturday, June 8, 2002 - Final Qualifying Notes/Quotes
Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca - Monterey, Calif. - 2.238-Mile Road Course
Round 5 of 20 on the 2002 CART FedEx Championship Series

Tony Kanaan and the #10 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Lola will
start Sunday's Bridgestone Grand Prix of Monterey from the outside of the
second row after final qualifying today on the 2.238-mile Mazda Raceway at
Laguna Seca hillside road course.  Kanaan bettered his provisional
qualifying time from Friday with a fast lap today of 1 minute, 10.043
seconds (115.026 mph), enabling him to hold onto the fourth spot on Sunday's
starting grid.  In Friday's provisional qualifying session, Kanaan also had
the fourth-best lap with a time of 1:10.264 (114.665 mph).  This is the
first race weekend on a road course for the Pioneer-WorldCom Honda team's
brand new Lola chassis.  The team debuted the chassis last weekend at
Milwaukee after campaigning Reynards for the first two-plus years of the its
existence.

Cristiano da Matta stole the pole position away from provisional polesitter
Kenny Brack today with a fast lap of 1:09.473 (115.970 mph).  Brack bettered
his fast time from Friday with a lap today of 1:09.575 (115.800 mph) but
fell back to the second starting position, while his teammate Bruno
Junqueira took third on the grid with a lap of 1:09.759 (115.495 mph).

Race time Sunday is 1:30 p.m. local time (4:30 p.m. EDT) with a live
broadcast set for Speed Channel.  Pre-race coverage on Speed Channel begins
at 4 p.m. EDT.  Sunday-morning warm-up is set for 9:30 a.m. local time
(12:30 p.m. EDT).

TONY KANAAN QUOTES

"If somebody would have told me before we got here this weekend that we were
going to start fourth, you would have seen me doing cartwheels.  But after
we got fourth in the first qualifying session on Friday, it's a little
disappointing that we didn't move up in the order.  I'm not complaining,
because it's been great this weekend that we've been consistently fast since
the very first laps of Friday-morning practice. My guys have all been
working so hard and so closely together, and it's nice to see we're getting
some good results.  This is only our second day in this car ever on a road
course.  Last weekend was our first weekend with the car on a racetrack of
any kind.  After we went out of the race early at Milwaukee, we had a little
meeting and told each other that we were going to work really hard and make
something good happen at Laguna.  Well, it's shaping up that way.  I've
definitely got a very competitive car, so I'm feeling good about our chances
in the race on Sunday.  Our first priority is to finish.  Beyond that, it's
up to a much higher authority!"