Canadian Club Driver Dario Franchitti
2007 Motorola Indy 300 Fact Sheet

Who: #27 Canadian Club Dallara/Honda/Firestone driver Dario Franchitti
What: Motorola Indy 300, Round 15 of the 2007 IndyCar® Series
Where: Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, Calif.
When: Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007
Television: ESPN, 3:30 p.m. (EDT)

Dario Franchitti on the Motorola Indy 300:
"Infineon is a track that I enjoy going to. The team has done a great job at Infineon giving us quick cars every time. We had a good car here last year finishing second behind Marco. This race is going to be very important for us in the championship with only three races left. We need to continue to do well with our strategy and in the pits in order to get the Canadian Club team another win."

Dario Franchitti Facts
· Franchitti finished second in the 2006 event at Infineon Raceway behind teammate Marco Andretti.
· This will be Franchitti's third start at Infineon Raceway. He has top-10 finishes in both of his starts.
· Franchitti led 52 laps on his way to his 13th top-10 finish of the season at Kentucky Speedway.
· He leads the IndyCar Series championship by eight points over Scott Dixon and 52 over teammate Tony Kanaan.
· Franchitti recorded back-to-back wins at Iowa Speedway and Richmond International Raceway.
· 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.
· Franchitti has 17 major open-wheel racing victories and 16 career pole positions.