Andretti to Start 11th in NYSE Car at Kansas Speedway
www.andrettigreen.com Andretti to Start 11th in NYSE Car at Kansas Speedway KANSAS CITY, Kan. (July 1, 2006) - Marco Andretti and the #26 NYSE car recorded a speed of 209.884 miles per hour (26.0716 seconds) around Kansas Speedway and will start from the 11th position for Sunday's running of the Kansas Lottery Indy 300. The eighth event of the 2006 IndyCar Series season is set to go green at 1:15 p.m. (EDT) Sunday, July 2, with ABC Sports providing live broadcast coverage of the 200-lap event beginning at 1 p.m. (EDT). The race may also be heard on XM Satellite Radio on XM channel 145. Marco Andretti, #26 NYSE Dallara/Honda/Firestone: "The NYSE car is going to be a pretty good race car. It just didn't feel all that fast during qualifying. I was pretty happy with the run. We've mainly been working on the race car and I'm pretty comfortable with it. At this place you can get sidetracked looking for speed and not have a comfortable car during the race." 2006 Kansas Lottery Indy 300 Qualifying Results Pos. Name Speed (mph) Time (sec) 1 Dan Wheldon 213.536 25.6257 2 Sam Hornish Jr. 213.372 25.6453 3 Scott Dixon 212.533 25.7466 4 Helio Castroneves 212.472 25.7540 5 Kosuke Matsuura 212.404 25.7622 6 Vitor Meira 212.146 25.7936 7 Buddy Lazier 210.711 25.9692 8 Tomas Scheckter 210.409 26.0065 9 Buddy Rice 210.387 26.0092 10 Scott Sharp 210.384 26.0096 11 Marco Andretti 209.884 26.0716 12 Danica Patrick 209.495 26.1199 13 Tony Kanaan 209.368 26.1358 14 Dario Franchitti 209.336 26.1398 15 Bryan Herta 209.023 26.1789 16 Ed Carpenter 208.629 26.2284 17 Jeff Simmons 208.616 26.2300 18 Felipe Giaffone 207.410 26.3825 19 Eddie Cheever Jr. 207.021 26.4321