Andretti Qualifies NYSE Car Ninth at Texas Motor Speedway
www.andrettigreen.com Andretti to Start Ninth in NYSE Car at Texas Motor Speedway FORT WORTH, Texas (June 8, 2006) - Marco Andretti and the #26 NYSE car recorded a speed of 211.923 miles per hour (24.7165 seconds) and will start from the ninth position for Saturday night's running of the IndyCar Series Bombardier Learjet 500k. 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. Marco Andretti, #26 NYSE Dallara/Honda/Firestone: "I think my engineers could qualify the car here, but this is about where I thought I'd qualify the NYSE car so I have to say that I'm pleased. I found out in practice that I'm definitely going to have to drive the car during the race. There are going to be two or three guys outside of you when you have somebody in front of you, so we've got to get the car to where I can go flat out when I'm running behind somebody." 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