Franchitti Endures Long Day at Chicagoland Speedway

          JOLIET, Ill. (Sept. 11, 2005) - ArcaEx driver Dario Franchitti suffered a misfortunate tire puncture early,
then endured a mechanical problem with the car en route to a 12th-place finish in Sunday's running of the Indy
Racing League® IndyCar® Series Peak Antifreeze Indy 300 at Chicagoland Speedway.
          Franchitti started from the 10th position and had moved into the top five when the race was red-flagged
do to a three-car incident on lap 20. But Franchitti was moved to the back of the field after the team changed a
punctured tire caused while driving through the debris. Franchitti again advanced towards the leaders, but a
broken weight-jacker forced him to endure an ill-handling car over the remainder of the event.
          Teammate Dan Wheldon earned his sixth win of the season. Helio Castroneves was second, Sam
Hornish Jr. finished third, Tomas Scheckter was fourth and teammate Tony Kanaan was fifth.
          Through 15 events, Franchitti stands fourth in the driver points standings with 413 points, 170 points shy
of points leader Wheldon.
          Next up for Franchitti and the rest of the IndyCar Series teams is the Watkins Glen Indy Grand Prix at
Watkins Glen International on Sunday, Sept. 25. The event will be televised live by ABC, beginning at 3:30 p.m.
(EDT). It can also be heard live by XM Satellite Radio subscribers by tuning into Extreme XM, channel 152.

Dario Franchitti, #27 ArcaEx Dallara/Honda/Firestone:
          "It was a terrible day for us. It was good to hear that Ryan Briscoe is okay and that Dan moved closer to
the championship. We ran well and got up front, then the IRL made the decision to keep us running through the
debris of Briscoe's wreckage. They open the pits, we made a pit stop, then rather than red-flag the race they
continued to run us through the debris field and we picked up a screw in one of the tires which should never
have happened. They let us change the tire but put us at the back of the field. After that we lost our weight-
jacker and that made it pretty difficult. Then we lost a lot of time in our last pit stop which caused us to lose
contact with the lead pack and we went with a different strategy which didn't pan out. It was just a long day."

Kyle Moyer, General Manager, Andretti Green Racing:
          "It was a tough day for the ArcaEx team. We had a good car for part of the day and part of the day we
didn't. It was a great day for Dan and now the championship is down to two of our AGR teammates and that's all
that matters."

                                          2005 Peak Antifreeze Indy 300 Results
                 Pos.     Name                            Laps         Pos.      Name                        Laps
                   1      Dan Wheldon                      200           13      Buddy Rice                   200
                   2      Helio Castroneves                200           14      Bryan Herta                  200
                   3      Sam Hornish Jr.                  200           15      Roger Yasukawa               200
                   4      Tomas Scheckter                  200           16      Jaques Lazier                200
                   5      Tony Kanaan                      200           17      Ed Carpenter                 199
                   6      Danica Patrick                   200           18      Jimmy Kite                   199
                   7      Vitor Meira                      200           19      Scott Dixon                  169
                   8      Scott Sharp                      200           20      Tomas Enge                   140
                   9      Patrick Carpentier               200           21      Alex Barron                  19
                  10      Buddy Lazier                     200           22      Ryan Briscoe                 19
                  11      A.J. Foyt IV                     200           23      Kosuke Matsuura              19
                  12      Dario Franchitti                 200