Canadian Club Driver Dario Franchitti
2007 XM Satellite Radio Indy 300 Fact Sheet

Who: #27 Canadian Club Dallara/Honda/Firestone driver Dario Franchitti
What: XM Satellite Radio Indy 300, Round 1 of the 2007 IndyCar® Series
Where: Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead, Fla.
When: Saturday, March 24, 2007
Television: ESPN2, 8 p.m. (EDT)

Dario Franchitti, #27 Canadian Club Dallara/Honda/Firestone:

(ON QUALIFYING) "I'm surprised. I'm not surprised at the speed. I'm surprised because we didn't even do a qualifying run today; we just concentrated on race set up. Thanks to my engineers and the Canadian Club team because they did a really good job and they could have guessed a little bit and it seems to be okay. Now, it would be ideal to test this time of night similar to what we race because the track really does seem to change so much. We'll just see what we've got for tomorrow night."

Dario Franchitti Facts

* Franchitti qualified third for the XM Satellite Radio Indy 300 with a top speed of 213.714 miles per hour (25.0147 seconds).

* The 2007 season is Franchitti's third full season in the IndyCar Series with Andretti Green Racing.

* In 2006 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Franchitti started the race in the fifth position and remained within the top five throughout the race before finishing fourth.

* 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 finished eighth in the 2006 IndyCar Series driver championship despite missing the final race of the season due to an injury.

* Franchitti accumulated three top-five and seven top-10 finishes in 2006. His highest finishes included second at Infineon Raceway (Aug. 25), third at Richmond International Raceway (June 24) and seventh at the Indianapolis 500 (May 28).

* He collected IndyCar Series wins at Nashville and California in 2005.

* Franchitti has recorded three career IndyCar Series pole positions, those coming at Texas (June 10, 2004), California (Oct. 26, 2005) and St. Petersburg (April 2, 2006).

* Three of his four 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) and at Nashville Superspeedway (2005).

* Franchitti has 14 major open-wheel racing victories and 14 career pole positions.

* Since 1998, Franchitti has won more American major open-wheel races than all but four drivers.