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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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."