Canadian Club Driver Dario Franchitti
2007 Firestone Indy 200 Fact Sheet

Who: #27 Canadian Club Dallara/Honda/Firestone driver Dario Franchitti
What: Firestone Indy 200, Round 11 of the 2007 IndyCar® Series
Where: Nashville Superspeedway, Lebanon, Tenn.
When: Saturday, July 14, 2007
Television: ESPN, 7:30 p.m. (EDT)

Dario Franchitti on the Firestone Indy 200:
"I am really looking forward to going back to Nashville because it is my home track. It is a very difficult track with few chances to pass and the concrete surface makes the setup even more critical. The Canadian Club team has been good on shorter ovals this year. I hope we have a successful weekend and gain some of the points back in the championship that we lost to (Scott) Dixon in Watkins Glen."

Dario Franchitti Facts
- Franchitti won the 2005 event at Nashville Superspeedway and has two top-10 finishes in three starts.
- He leads the IndyCar Series championship by 47 points.
- Franchitti recorded back-to-back wins at Iowa Speedway and Richmond International Raceway giving him three wins on the season.
- He has recorded nine-consecutive top-five finishes and is the only IndyCar Series driver to finish all 10 events in the top 10 this season.
- On May 27, 2007, Franchitti won the 91st running of the Indianapolis 500®: his first Indy 500 victory.
- Franchitti led 34 laps of the 91st Running of the Indianapolis 500 and became only the second Scotsman to win in the history of the event.
- Franchitti is the winningest British driver in American open-wheel racing history.
- Along with teammates Bryan Herta and Tony Kanaan, Franchitti drove to a win at the 12 Hours of Sebring on March 17. The trio collected the LMP2 class victory in AGR's first ALMS start.
- Franchitti has recorded four career IndyCar Series pole positions, those coming at Texas (June 10, 2004), California (Oct. 26, 2005), St. Petersburg (April 2, 2006) and Richmond (June 29, 2007).
- Five of his seven IndyCar Series victories have come on tracks of 1.33 miles or smaller, including the 1-mile ovals at Milwaukee (2004) and Pikes Peak (2004), the 1.33-mile oval at Nashville Superspeedway (2005), the 0.875-mile track at Iowa Speedway and the 0.75-mile oval at Richmond International Raceway.
- Franchitti has 17 major open-wheel racing victories and 14 career pole positions