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Kanaan Fastest in Practice

Pole sitter Tony Kanaan was fastest in Friday's practice session for the Indianapolis 500, setting a fastest lap average speed of 226.490 mph

Kanaan led a closely packed leading group on a busy day at the speedway which saw 2828 laps completed between the drivers, a distance of over 7000 miles without incident.

Kanaan's fastest time was closely followed by teammates Dan Wheldon and Dario Franchitti, all setting times within a tenth of a second of each other.

Meanwhile Kenny Brack's comeback to the series continued well, posting the seventh fastest time while completing 139 laps, the most of the day.

He was just 0.1119 of a second slower than teammate Danica Patrick who has qualified fourth for the race, and is on target to comfortably make the field.

Qualifying for the final eleven places on the grid for the May 29th race takes place later today.

Pos  Driver              Chassis-Engine    Speed    Time     Laps
 1.  Tony Kanaan         Dallara-Honda     226.490  39.7368   111
 2.  Dan Wheldon         Dallara-Honda     226.399  39.7528    83
 3.  Dario Franchitti    Dallara-Honda     226.065  39.8115   130
 4.  Scott Sharp         Panoz-Honda       225.786  39.8607   107
 5.  Danica Patrick      Panoz-Honda       225.459  39.9186   117
 6.  Kosuke Matsuura     Panoz-Honda       224.984  40.0028   133
 7.  Kenny Brack         Panoz-Honda       224.829  40.0305   139
 8.  Adrian Fernandez    Panoz-Honda       224.780  40.0391   113
 9.  Sam Hornish Jr      Dallara-Toyota    224.770  40.0409   106
10.  Bryan Herta         Dallara-Honda     224.735  40.0472   114
11.  Richie Hearn        Panoz-Chevrolet   224.480  40.0926    81
12.  Buddy Lazier        Dallara-Chevrolet 224.174  40.1474   119
13.  Helio Castroneves   Dallara-Toyota    224.022  40.1747   100
14.  Vitor Meira         Panoz-Honda       223.750  40.2235    81
15.  Tomas Scheckter     Dallara-Chevrolet 223.267  40.3104   115
16.  Ryan Briscoe        Panoz-Toyota      223.204  40.3218    81
17.  Tomas Enge          Dallara-Chevrolet 222.008  40.5390   116
18.  Darren Manning      Panoz-Toyota      221.874  40.5636    98
19.  Scott Dixon         Dallara-Toyota    221.480  40.6357   112
20.  Patrick Carpentier  Dallara-Toyota    221.382  40.6538    67
21.  Alex Barron         Dallara-Toyota    221.375  40.6550   123
22.  Marty Roth          Dallara-Chevrolet 220.850  40.7516    44
23.  Roger Yasukawa      Dallara-Honda     220.337  40.8465    59
24.  Jeff Bucknum        Dallara-Honda     220.069  40.8963   104
25.  AJ Foyt IV          Dallara-Toyota    219.823  40.9420    32
26.  Larry Foyt          Dallara-Toyota    218.946  41.1060    62
27.  Jaques Lazier       Panoz-Toyota      218.813  41.1310    15
28.  Ed Carpenter        Dallara-Toyota    218.534  41.1836    28
29.  Jimmy Kite          Dallara-Toyota    217.809  41.3207    93
30.  Ed Carpenter        Dallara-Toyota    216.828  41.5075    66
31.  Jeff Ward           Dallara-Toyota    215.855  41.6947    70
32.  Arie Luyendyk Jr    Dallara-Chevrolet 198.604  45.3162     9

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