Kanaan, Team 7-Eleven to Start Sixth at Texas Motor Speedway
www.andrettigreen.com Kanaan to Start Sixth at Texas Motor Speedway FORT WORTH, Texas (June 8, 2006) - Team 7-Eleven driver Tony Kanaan recorded a speed of 212.313 miles per hour (24.6711 seconds) and will start from the sixth position in the #11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone for Saturday night's running of the IndyCar Series Bombardier Learjet 500k at Texas Motor Speedway. The sixth event of the 2006 IndyCar Series season is set to go green at 9:15 p.m. (EDT) Saturday, June 10, with ESPN providing live broadcast coverage of the 200-lap event beginning at 9 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: "We've spent most of our time working on our qualifying setup. Team 7-Eleven always has good race cars here. If you look back at my record, it's pretty good apart from 2003 when Helio took us out. We have a good qualifying position so now we can focus on getting ready to go racing." 2006 Bombardier Learjet 500k Qualifying Pos. Name Speed (mph) Time (sec) 1 Sam Hornish Jr. 213.624 24.5197 2 Dan Wheldon 213.588 24.5238 3 Helio Castroneves 213.182 24.5706 4 Scott Dixon 212.929 24.5998 5 Tomas Scheckter 212.823 24.6120 6 Tony Kanaan 212.313 24.6711 7 Scott Sharp 212.242 24.6794 8 Dario Franchitti 211.933 24.7154 9 Marco Andretti 211.923 24.7165 10 Kosuke Matsuura 211.545 24.7607 11 Bryan Herta 211.532 24.7622 12 Ed Carpenter 211.395 24.7783 13 Vitor Meira 211.284 24.7913 14 Buddy Rice 211.163 24.8055 15 Danica Patrick 210.981 24.8269 16 Jeff Simmons 210.445 24.8901 17 Eddie Cheever Jr. 209.414 25.0127 18 Buddy Lazier 209.152 25.0440 19 Felipe Giaffone No Speed No Time