Canadian Club Driver Dario Franchitti
2007 PEAK Antifreeze Indy 300 Fact Sheet

Who: #27 Canadian Club Dallara/Honda/Firestone driver Dario Franchitti
What: PEAK Antifreeze Indy 300, Round 17 of the 2007 IndyCar® Series
Where: Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, Ill.
When: Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007
Television: ABC Sports, 4 p.m. (EDT)

Dario Franchitti on the PEAK Antifreeze Indy 300:
"I said from the beginning that this was going to be a great championship battle and it's going to be at Chicago. We want to win; Tony (Kanaan) wants to win and Scott (Dixon) wants to win. On the track, we aren't going to take any prisoners, either team. I'm looking forward for this weekend and an exciting finish to a great IndyCar Series season.”

Dario Franchitti Facts
· This will be Franchitti's third start at Chicagoland Speedway. His best finish was fourth in 2004.
· Franchitti did not start last year's PEAK Antifreeze Indy 300 due to injury.
· For the fifth time this season, Franchitti led more laps than any other driver during the inaugural Detroit Indy Grand Prix picking up the important bonus points.
· He is one of two IndyCar Series drivers to finish 15 of 16 races in the top 10 this season and has led more laps than any other driver.
· Franchitti retook the lead in the IndyCar Series points standings by just three points heading into the season finale.
· 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 six career IndyCar Series pole positions half of which have come in the 2007 season.
· 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.
· Franchitti has 17 major open-wheel racing victories and 16 career pole positions.