2006 Kansas Lottery Indy 300 Fact Sheet

Who: #27 Klein Tools/Canadian Club Dallara/Honda/Firestone driver Dario Franchitti
What: Kansas Lottery Indy 300, Round 8 of the Indy Racing League® IndyCar® Series
Where: Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kan.
When: Sunday, July 2, 2006
Television: ABC Sports (Live), 1 p.m. (EDT)

Dario Franchitti on the Kansas Lottery Indy 300:
"We had a nice result in Richmond after struggling so much in Texas and a mistake in Watkins Glen. The Klein Tools/Canadian Club crew has done such a great job this season and I fully expect that to carry forward for the remainder of the season and I'll need them to be quick at Kansas.  We struggled at the Kansas test so I'm hopeful we can be competitive."

Dario Franchitti Facts
This will be his third start at Kansas.  He has a pair of fourth-place finishes in his two previous starts.
Franchitti is currently eighth in the IndyCar Series driver championship.  He is seven points out of seventh place and 35 points out of fifth.
He recorded his best finish of the 2006 season at the most recent IndyCar Series race with a third-place result at Richmond International Raceway.
Franchitti scored a fourth-place finish at the 1.5-mile oval at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Franchitti collected IndyCar Series wins at Nashville and California in 2005.
He finished fourth in the 2005 driver point standings with 498 points, his highest IndyCar Series finish.
Franchitti had eight top-five and 13 top-10 finishes and led 448 laps in 2005.
The Scotsman has recorded three career IndyCar Series pole positions, those coming at Texas (June 10, 2004), California (Oct. 16, 2005) and St. Petersburg (April 2, 2006).
Three of Franchitti's 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 the 1.33-mile Nashville track (2005). His fourth victory came on the two-mile D-shaped oval at California Speedway (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.

Dario Franchitti IndyCar Series Statistics
                                             Top       Top                  Laps
                  Starts     Wins      5          10       Poles    Led         Pts (Rk)      Earnings
2006              7           0          2           3           1         14         157 (8th)    $638,655
Career          44          4         16         26          3        811                         $3,329,765