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Team 7-Eleven Driver Tony Kanaan Phoenix Fact Sheet

                                  Team 7-Eleven Driver Tony Kanaan
                                2004 Copper World Indy 200 Fact Sheet

   Who: #11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone driver Tony Kanaan
   What: Copper World Indy 200, Round 2 of the Indy Racing League® IndyCar® Series
   Where: Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale, Arizona
   When: Sunday, March 21, 2004
   Television: ABC (Live)


   Tony Kanaan on the Copper World Indy 200
           "I definitely have good memories from our win at Phoenix last year. Obviously, we tested
   the Team 7-Eleven car there with everybody else last month and I think we have a decent car. It
   will be a tough race on a one-mile oval. It will just be a matter of working hard. I expect it to be
   very competitive, so qualifying well will be really important. We'll see, but I'm excited. I really like
   the style of the track. It has two completely different corners and requires you to set up your car
   the way that I like it, which is kind of loose."

   Tony Kanaan Facts
         Homestead marks Kanaan's 18th IndyCar Series start
         Kanaan is the defending pole winner and defending race winner of this event
         Kanaan led 79 of the 200 laps at Phoenix in 2003 on the way to recording his first IndyCar
         Series win and one of nine top-five finishes last season
         Kanaan is coming off an eighth-place finish in the IndyCar Series season-opener at
         Homestead (Feb. 29)
         Kanaan has three career IndyCar Series poles, all in 2003 (Homestead, Phoenix, Pikes
         Peak)
         Kanaan led the IndyCar Series point standings after a league-high nine races in 2003 and
         finished fourth in the final standings


   Tony Kanaan - IndyCar Series Statistics
                                           Top    Top              Laps
                          Starts    Wins    5      10     Poles     Led     Pts (Rk)     Earnings
2004                         1       0      0       1       0        0      24 (8th)     $47,400
Career                      18       1      9      13       3       360        --       $1,815,850

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   Team 7-Eleven, 2004 Copper World Indy 200 Fact Sheet Continued

   Andretti Green Racing Team Facts
         Andretti Green Racing has two wins and three poles in the IndyCar Series
         Andretti Green has had at least one car in the top-five in seven consecutive IndyCar
         Series events dating back to Aug. 10, 2003
         AGR entries have combined for 23 top-five finishes in 17 career IndyCar Series races
         AGR has placed two cars in the top-five of an event seven times
         AGR has fielded at least three cars in each IndyCar Series event it has entered

   Kim Green, President, Andretti Green Racing:
           "There's a pretty good amount of confidence for our whole team going back to Phoenix
   based on our performance there last year. For Tony, the attention will be on whether he can
   successfully defend his title and we think we're certainly capable of doing that.
           "Our test there was good. We came away with some new information. The cars are
   different than they were last year. The cars have less downforce than they had at Phoenix a
   year ago because of the rule change the IRL made, so I think the track is going to be more of a
   challenge during the race weekend. A lot of that will probably depend on the weather we get. If
   it's hot, the best car there will have a distinct advantage. If it's cool, I think the field will be a lot
   closer."