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Team 7-Eleven Indy 500 Practice Report (May 19, 2004)

Driver:  Tony Kanaan
Car:  #11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone

                   Tony Kanaan                                                           Tony Kanaan
                       May 19                                                       All Practice Sessions
      Position               7th                                           Best Speed             222.668 mph
      Speed                  218.544 mph                                   Best Time              40.4189 sec
      Time                   41.1816 sec                                   Total Laps             281
      Laps                   103

                                                      IndyCar Series
                                               Practice Speeds - May 19
                                        1. Scott Dixon                 220.576 mph
                                        2. Kosuke Matsuura             219.417 mph
                                        3. Roger Yasukawa              219.173 mph
                                        4. Adrian Fernandez            219.171 mph
                                        5. Helio Castroneves           218.706 mph

Tony Kanaan, #11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone
          "We've come a long ways. As the week goes by, we get further along on our race setup. We're
trying to run together with our teammates and work with different people to see how our Team 7-Eleven
car will be on race day. I don't want to sound repetitive, but we're just doing race stuff all day long and
trying to find the best race package."

Tony Kanaan Facts
       Kanaan will start fifth in the 88th Indianapolis 500; he has not qualified worse than fifth in three
       career Indy qualifying runs.
       Kanaan started second and finished third in last year's Indianapolis 500.
       Kanaan enters the Indy 500 ranked second in the IndyCar Series point standings after three events,
       trailing AGR teammate and Klein Tools/Jim Beam driver Dan Wheldon, 123-117.

Kim Green, President, Andretti Green Racing
          "Obviously, we're hard into our race preparation program and trying to understand what to do to
get the Team 7-Eleven car comfortable at what speeds and in traffic. There wasn't a lot of traffic out there
today, but we certainly tried to at least work with our other three teammates. I think we've got some work
to do. But, hopefully we can have another good day tomorrow and put ourselves in a position to have the
total package for race day."