ArcaEx Indy 500 Practice Report (May 21, 2004)

Driver:  Dario Franchitti
Car:  #27 ArcaEx Dallara/Honda/Firestone

                  Dario Franchitti                                                     Dario Franchitti
                       May 21                                                       All Practice Sessions
      Position               16th                                          Best Speed             219.026 mph
      Speed                  215.305 mph                                   Best Time              41.0911 sec
      Time                   41.8011 sec                                   Total Laps             448
      Laps                   41

                                                      IndyCar Series
                                               Practice Speeds - May 21
                                        1.  Adrian Fernandez           218.257 mph
                                        2.  Helio Castroneves          218.040 mph
                                        3.  Scott Dixon                217.640 mph
                                        4.  Kosuke Matsuura            217.520 mph
                                        5.  Buddy Rice                 217.249 mph

Dario Franchitti, #27 ArcaEx Dallara/Honda/Firestone
          "We definitely got some of the results we wanted today. We certainly learned some things today
and we're pretty close. But, I think we still have a couple more things we'd like to try. That's one of the
advantages of having such a good technical group at AGR is that they keep coming up with new things to
try and new ways to improve the ArcaEx car. We'll see what happens."

Dario Franchitti Facts
       Franchitti will start on the outside of the front row in the 88th Indianapolis 500.
       Indianapolis marks Franchitti's eighth IndyCar Series start and second start in the Indianapolis 500.
       In his only other Indy 500 start (2002), Franchitti qualified 28th and finished 19th.
       Franchitti is coming off his first top-10 finish of the season, which came in the form of a seventh at
       Twin Ring Motegi on April 17.

Allen McDonald, Race Engineer, #27 ArcaEx Dallara/Honda/Firestone
          "I think today was productive. With what we did, I think we're pretty happy with our ArcaEx car. To
get the last little bit out of these cars is really quite tricky. But, we're right there. We're very close to getting
a decent setup. We just want to make sure we've got a good race car for next Sunday."