Tagliani qualifies 7th at Long Beach (02)

For Immediate Release-April 17, 2010



Will Power wins the Pole


Alex Tagliani Qualifies 7th for the Grand Prix of Long Beach



Driver:
ALEX TAGLIANI
Entry:
No. 77 La Capsule Sportive/Adonis Products/Honda Indy Edmonton FAZZT 
Race Team Dallara/Honda/Firestone
Long Beach GP:
Sunday, April 18, 2010 3:30 p.m. ET on VERSUS, IMS Radio Network, XM 
Radio 145, and SIRIUS Radio 211 and 5:00 p.m. ET on TSN 2
Race:
4 of 17



SATURDAY QUALIFYING RESULTS
TAGLIANI POSITION ON THE GRID: 7th
TAGLIANI TIME & SPEED: 1:09.8730, average speed of 163.179 km/h
TAGLIANI LAPS: 19
POLE POSITION: WILL POWER, Team Penske, 1:09.5469, average speed of 
163.945 km/h



FAZZT Race Team driver Alex Tagliani will start Sunday's Toyota Grand 
Prix of Long Beach from row four. Tagliani drove his #77 La Capsule 
Sportive/Adonis Products/Honda Indy Edmonton sponsored Dallara to 7th 
place during Saturday's Final 12 qualifying session with a lap time 
of 1:09.8730 around the 3.167 km, 11-turn temporary street course for 
an average speed of 163.179 km/h. Even though the Canadian driver 
bettered his lap times compared to the previous track session, his 
rivals also improved on their lap times. This was Tagliani's third 
Top-8 qualifying effort of the season.


"I'm so very proud of the FAZZT Race Team they are just doing a 
fantastic job," said Tagliani following qualifying. "We are right 
there every time we go out and today just shows how incredibly 
competitive the IZOD IndyCar Series is to be only half a tenth out of 
the Fast Six, it's just amazing. I couldn't be happier with the guys, 
the team; everything has just been really amazing. For tomorrow's 
race, this track is really challenging and it changes quite a bit 
from practice to qualifying to the race so you can't really go 
overboard and be too worried about your car. I think you have to let 
the track come to you but it also has a lot of different corners like 
very slow corners on concrete and then fast corners so you need 
stability. So basically, it can be very difficult to find the 
compromise on this track but I think we are very close and I know we 
have to let things come to us, so I'm looking forward to tomorrow and 
I think we will have a good race."

Tagliani was fourth in the first qualifying session with a time of 
1:10.2228. The session was the first time the team had run red tires 
during the weekend so they knew slight changes might be necessary. 
After slight adjustments to the set-up, Tagliani went from 9th to 4th 
in his second stint to make it into the Fast 12 Qualifier. In the 
second qualifying session, the Fast 12, Tagliani missed making the 
Fast Six by only 3/100ths of a second.

Australian Will Power, who topped the charts in two of the three 
practice sessions, was not a surprise as he scored his second 
consecutive pole, also his second of the season. With nearly half a 
second ahead of his closest rivals, the Team Penske driver parked his 
car early in the final Fast 6 Grand Prix of Long Beach qualifier 
after posting a lap time of 1:09.5469 (163.945 km/h). Andretti 
Autosport's Ryan Hunter-Reay will share the front row with Power. 
Justin Wilson will start from the inside of row two next Helio 
Castroneves. Ryan Briscoe and Tony Kanaan will be on row three. As 
for Tagliani, he will start from the inside of row four next to Scott 
Dixon.


Tagliani eight fastest in final practice
In the third and final practice held earlier on Saturday morning, 
Tagliani was eighth overall, only six tenths of the leader with a lap 
time of 1:10.6160 (161.463 km/h). Will Power was the only driver in 
that session to post a time under 70 seconds stopping the clock at 
1:09.9597. Dario Franchitti was second quickest, followed by Helio 
Castroneves. Lap times clocked during this session were the quickest 
of the three practice sessions.


Team Manager Rob Edwards on the Long Beach Qualifying Session:
"Today's qualifying shows just how competitive the IZOD IndyCar 
Series is across the board. We missed pole position in Brazil by 
3/100ths of a second and we missed the Fast Six today by 3/100ths of 
a second so the field is very competitive. We keep saying that as a 
new team, we're learning every week and we've got a lot to learn and 
to be where we are in such a competitive field, we're happy. We said 
we would bounce back after Barber and we definitely did that with the 
guys doing a super job. Alex has been awesome this weekend as well, 
working steadily to make small improvements in the car. Everyone did 
a great job recovering from the incident on Friday morning and now 
we'll go beat them in the race."


Team Owner Andre Azzi on the Long Beach Qualifying Session:
"This Qualifying Session was just unbelievable. We just missed the 
top six and it was the first time we ran in the 69's all weekend so 
it was a good run. I'm so proud of the FAZZT Race Team and the team 
is only getting better with every session. So I think we will be one 
to watch out for in tomorrow's race."


The green flag for the 36th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach will be 
waved Sunday at 4:15 pm, Eastern Time. The 85-lap Round 4 of the 
IndyCar Series will be broadcast live in the USA on VERSUS, starting 
at 3:30 pm ET with the pre-race show. Canadian fans can tune in at 
5:00 pm ET for full coverage of the race on TSN2. Fans can also 
follow the action on the web at www.indycar.com. Last year, Tagliani 
started 9th and finished 10th in Long Beach event while driving for 
Conquest Racing.


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Media contact:
Jana Watt
FAZZT Race Team
(317) 709-3855
janaw@fazztraceteam.com


Max d'Orsonnens
For FAZZT Race Team
(514) 990-4988
maxdo@videotron.ca



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Tagliani Long Beach GP.jpg
Alex Tagliani drove his No 77 La Capsule Sportive/Adonis 
Products/Honda Indy Edmonton Dallara to 7th place during Saturday 
qualifying session for Sunday's Long Beach Grand Prix.
Photo credit: IndyCar/Ron McQueeney