Kanaan, Team 7-Eleven Finish Fifth at Indianapolis
www.andrettigreen.com Kanaan Brings Team 7-Eleven Car Home Fifth at 90th Running of the Indianapolis 500 SPEEDWAY, Ind. (May 28, 2006) - Team 7-Eleven driver Tony Kanaan earned a hard-fought fifth- place finish at the 90th running of the Indianapolis 500 Sunday afternoon. Starting from fifth place on the starting grid, Kanaan kept the #11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone among the top-five throughout the event, moving into the lead on lap 183. He proceeded to lead the next 11 laps before making a late pit stop for fuel during a caution period. That dropped the Team 7-Eleven car into seventh place with several lapped cars separating Kanaan from the leaders. He managed to overtake two competitors to bring the car home in fifth place. Sam Hornish Jr. took the victory with NYSE driver Marco Andretti second, Jim Beam/Vonage driver Michael Andretti third and Dan Wheldon fourth. Through four events, Kanaan stands fifth in the driver point standings with 119 points, one behind fourth-place Scott Dixon and 37 points shy of leader Helio Castroneves. Next up for Kanaan and the entire IndyCar Series is the Watkins Glen Indy Grand Prix on Sunday, June 4. The event will be televised live by ABC Sports, beginning at 3:30 p.m. (EDT). It can also be heard live by XM Satellite Radio subscribers by tuning into XM channel 145. Tony Kanaan, #11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone: "It doesn't matter. Everybody is going to see who won, and it was Sam Hornish, so congratulations to him. For sure, inside myself, I am 100 percent comfortable I gave everything I could. Now, if it was just under my control, I probably would have won it today, but a lot of things need to fall in place together so we will try it again and again and again, and one day, we'll get it." Kim Green, President, Andretti Green Racing: "The last yellow was very untimely for Team 7-Eleven, otherwise I think we were in a position for a splash-and-go under green and could have won it. It was a hell of a race. I'm so proud of everyone with Team 7-Eleven. We had great stops, Tony drove a great race with a really good race car. We just didn't quite get it at the end." 2006 Indianapolis 500 Results Pos. Name Laps Pos. Name Laps Pos. Name Laps 1 Sam Hornish Jr. 200 12 Buddy Lazier 199 23 Jeff Simmons 152 2 Marco Andretti 200 13 Eddie Cheever Jr. 198 24 Al Unser Jr. 145 3 Michael Andretti 200 14 Max Papis 197 25 Helio Castroneves 109 4 Dan Wheldon 200 15 Kosuke Matsuura 196 26 Buddy Rice 108 5 Tony Kanaan 200 16 Roger Yasukawa 194 27 Tomas Scheckter 65 6 Scott Dixon 200 17 Jaques Lazier 193 28 Arie Luyendyk Jr. 54 7 Dario Franchitti 200 18 Airton Dare 193 29 Stephan Gregoire 49 8 Danica Patrick 200 19 PJ Jones 189 30 Larry Foyt 43 9 Scott Sharp 200 20 Bryan Herta 188 31 Thiago Medeiros 24 10 Vitor Meira 200 21 Felipe Giaffone 177 32 Jeff Bucknum 1 11 Ed Carpenter 199 22 Townsend Bell 161 33 PJ Chesson 1