Klein Tools/Jim Beam driver Dan Wheldon narrowly missed his fifth win of the season

WHELDON SCORES SECOND-PLACE FINISH AT MICHIGAN
IN KLEIN TOOLS/JIM BEAM CAR

BROOKLYN, Mich. (July 31, 2005) - Klein Tools/Jim Beam driver Dan Wheldon narrowly missed his
fifth win of the season while driving to a second-place finish at Sunday's running of the Indy Racing League®
IndyCar® Series Firestone Indy 400 at Michigan International Speedway. With the finish, Wheldon increased his
lead in the IndyCar Series championship chase to 78 points over Sam Hornish Jr.
Wheldon showed early how strong the Klein Tools/Jim Beam car was by gaining eight positions in the
first 10 laps of the race and running in the top five, where he would stay for the remainder of the event.
Throughout the race, Wheldon's toughest competition came from within the AGR stable and by lap 60 the AGR
team was running 1-2-3-4.
On a restart with less than 70 laps remaining, Wheldon got a jump on the field and grabbed the lead,
but AGR teammate and eventual race winner Bryan Herta pursued Wheldon and took back the top spot seven
laps later. Following his final pit stop, Wheldon began to challenge for the lead again, moving up the leader
board from fifth place. However, in the 11th-closest finish in IndyCar Series history, Herta nosed out Wheldon by
.0374 of a second.
Trailing Herta and Wheldon across the line were Tomas Scheckter, Tony Kanaan and Hornish.
After taking a weekend off, the IndyCar Series schedule resumes Sunday, August 14, from Kentucky
Speedway. ABC will provide live coverage of the AMBER Alert Portal Indy 300 beginning at 3:30 p.m. (EDT).

Dan Wheldon, #26 Klein Tools/Jim Beam Dallara/Honda/Firestone:
"It was a very, very good team effort by the Klein Tools/Jim Beam crew and by the AGR team as a
whole. It was very close; that's the way racing should be, no doubt about it. My car wasn't the greatest today. I
seemed to lack overall speed and that's something we have to work on."

John Anderson, Team Manager, #26 Klein Tools/Jim Beam Dallara/Honda/Firestone:
"Bryan Herta was the class of the field right from the start of the race. He deserved every bloody lap he
led and he deserved that win, for sure. We just didn't have enough for him, but what a hell of a battle between
Tony and Bryan and Dan. It was a hell of a race. The Klein Tools/Jim Beam team went after that win, but I know
Dan also had the championship in his mind and this was the next best thing - especially with those XM guys
getting the win. It's just great."

2005 Firestone Indy 400 Results
Pos. Name Laps Pos. Name Laps
1 Bryan Herta 200 13 Jimmy Kite 197
2 Dan Wheldon 200 14 Vitor Meira 185
3 Tomas Scheckter 200 15 Townsend Bell 180
4 Tony Kanaan 200 16 Kosuke Matsuura 180
5 Sam Hornish Jr. 200 17 Jaques Lazier 179
6 Buddy Lazier 200 18 Roger Yasukawa 179
7 Scott Sharp 200 19 Scott Dixon 166
8 Dario Franchitti 200 20 Danica Patrick 163
9 Patrick Carpentier 199 21 Helio Castroneves 138
10 Ryan Briscoe 199 22 Buddy Rice 126
11 Alex Barron 199 23 Ed Carpenter 118
12 A.J. Foyt IV 198