Kanaan, Team 7-Eleven Qualify Fifth at Indianapolis
SPEEDWAY, Ind. (May 20, 2006) - Team 7-Eleven driver Tony Kanaan recorded a four-lap average speed of 226.776 miles per hour (2:38.7471 seconds) in the #11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone during qualifying Saturday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and will start from the fifth position for the 90th running of the Indianapolis 500. Kanaan has qualified no worse than fifth in five appearances at Indianapolis. The fourth event of the 2006 IndyCar Series season is set to go green at 1 p.m. (EDT) Sunday, May 28, with ABC Sports providing live broadcast coverage of the 200-lap event beginning at 12 p.m. (EDT). The race may also be heard on XM Satellite Radio on XM channel 145. Tony Kanaan, #11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone: "Team 7-Eleven has struggled a bit over the past couple of weeks and we finally found something. I don't think we are perfect yet, but we are better. We haven't been making the headlines this month and I think that people may have taken us for granted. But we're here and we've been working hard. Team 7-Eleven wins as a team, we lose as a team, we have good times as a team and we had a tough couple of weeks together. "We made a big improvement yesterday. My Team 7-Eleven guys found what it took to get us to the next level in speed and hopefully we can carry that on and help our teammates." Qualifying Sequence Position 5th Speed Time (Sec) Lap 1 226.741 mph 39.6928 sec Lap 2 226.776 mph 39.6868 sec Lap 3 226.750 mph 39.6913 sec Lap 4 226.836 mph 39.6762 sec 4-Lap Average 226.776 mph -more- Team 7-Eleven, 2006 Indianapolis 500 Qualifying Continued 2006 Indianapolis 500 Qualifying Pos. Name Speed (mph) Time 1 Sam Hornish Jr. 228.985 2:37.2155 2 Helio Castroneves 228.008 2:37.8893 3 Dan Wheldon 227.338 2:38.3543 4 Scott Dixon 226.921 2:38.6457 5 Tony Kanaan 226.776 2:38.7471 6 Vitor Meira 226.156 2:39.1823 7 Kosuke Matsuura 225.503 2:39.6431 8 Scott Sharp 225.321 2:39.7720 9 Marco Andretti 224.918 2:40.0586 10 Danica Patrick 224.674 2:40.2319 11 Tomas Scheckter 224.659 2:40.2431 12 Ed Carpenter 224.548 2:40.3224 13 Michael Andretti 224.508 2:40.3505 14 Buddy Rice 224.393 2:40.4326 15 Townsend Bell 224.374 2:40.4466 16 Bryan Herta 224.179 2:40.5859 17 Dario Franchitti 223.345 2:41.1857 18 Max Papis 222.058 2:42.1198 19 Eddie Cheever Jr. 222.028 2:42.1420 20 PJ Chesson 221.576 2:42.4724 21 Felipe Giaffone 221.542 2:42.4973 22 Jeff Bucknum 221.461 2:42.5566 23 Larry Foyt 221.332 2:42.6519 24 Jaques Lazier 221.151 2:42.7847 25 Buddy Lazier 220.922 2:42.9534 26 Jeff Simmons 220.347 2:43.3785 27 Al Unser Jr. 219.388 2:44.0925 28 Roger Yasukawa 218.793 2:44.5393 29 Airton Dare 218.170 2:45.0091 30 Stephan Gregoire 217.428 2:45.5723 31 Arie Luyendyk Jr. 216.352 2:46.3952 32 PJ Jones 215.816 2:46.8091 33 TBD on Sunday