#10 Kanaan CART Portland Friday Provisional Qualifying

Contact:  Laz Denes, 256-657-6190
ldenes@monunnracing.com
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Tony Kanaan

#10 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Lola
G.I. Joe's 200 - Friday, June 14, 2002 - Provisional Qualifying Notes/Quotes
Portland (Ore.) International Raceway - 1.969-Mile Road Course
Round 6 of 20 on the 2002 CART FedEx Championship Series

Tony Kanaan and the #10 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Lola finished
today's provisional qualifying session for Sunday's G.I. Joe's 200 with the
15th-fastest lap of the day.  Kanaan toured the 1.969-mile Portland
International Raceway road course in 60.062 seconds (118.018 mph), a
half-second faster than his best lap in today's morning practice, which was
the 11th-fastest lap of that session.

Cristiano da Matta won the provisional pole with a lap of 59.083 seconds
(119.974 mph) this afternoon, followed by Kenny Brack at 59.168 (119.801
mph) and da Matta's teammate, Christian Fittipaldi, at 59.215 seconds
(119.706 mph).  All three are Toyota-powered Lolas.  Dario Franchitti was
the fastest Honda driver with the fourth-fastest lap of 59.403 seconds
(119.327 mph).

Practice resumes Saturday at 10 a.m. local time (1 p.m. EDT) with final
qualifying set for 1:45 p.m. local time (4:45 p.m. EDT).  Speed Channel will
carry the qualifying session live beginning at 4:30 p.m. EDT.  Race time
Sunday is 12:30 p.m. local time (3:30 p.m. EDT) with a live broadcast set
for CBS-TV.

TONY KANAAN QUOTES

"This was probably the worst Friday we've had all year.  We've been right up
there at all the other tracks we've been to ... even last weekend at Laguna
Seca when we ran our new Lola chassis for the first time on a road course.
Obviously, our lack of testing and our lack of experience with the new Lola
is showing here.  But we're working very hard and we definitely made some
gains between this morning and this afternoon.  We're headed in a positive
direction, lap-timewise.  But, unfortunately, so is everybody else.  On the
plus side, we're ahead of where we were last year, which turned out to be
one of our worst weekends of the year.  We totally changed everything
between this morning and this afternoon, so now we have to go to work and
find some more things to help us gain speed."

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