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Team 7-Eleven Practice Report (May 20, 2004)


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

                   Tony Kanaan                                                           Tony Kanaan
                       May 20                                                       All Practice Sessions
      Position               5th                                           Best Speed             222.668 mph
      Speed                  218.485 mph                                   Best Time              40.4189 sec
      Time                   41.1928 sec                                   Total Laps             376
      Laps                   95

                                                      IndyCar Series
                                               Practice Speeds - May 20
                                        1. Kosuke Matsuura             220.784 mph
                                        2. Adrian Fernandez            220.007 mph
                                        3. Helio Castroneves           218.676 mph
                                        4. Vitor Meira                 218.617 mph
                                        5. Tony Kanaan                 218.485 mph

Tony Kanaan, #11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone
          "We have the advantage of having four cars, so we tried to run together as much as possible.
That's a lot of traffic, having three cars ahead of you all the time, which is pretty good. As teammates, you
can really work together. We're just really trying to do a lot of different things just find out what will work
best for the conditions we get on race day. We've had a lot of different weather so far in practice, which is
pretty good - windy, sunny, cloudy - so, that's good. We should have a lot of information and hopefully by
race day we can choose the right stuff for the Team 7-Eleven car."

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.

Eric Cowdin, Race Engineer, #11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone
          "We're just really down into the fine-tuning now. We did three, full, long runs and we're pretty
happy with the Team 7-Eleven car and where we're at right now. We've put a lot of miles in over the last
three practice days and it's really paid off. I think we've got a really good starting point for the race. Now,
we'll just have to judge the conditions for Carb Day and then again on race day. That's about all we can
do, get it close and let Tony do the rest."