TEAMMATE: TONY KANAAN
Full Name: Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho
Birth Date: December 31, 1974
Birth Place: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Height: 5’5”
Weight: 145 lbs.
Residence: Miami, Florida
Spouse: Daniele
No. 11Chassis: Dallara
Engine: Honda
Sponsor: 7-Eleven
Website www.tonykanaan.com.br

#11 Car : Tony Kanaan
TK is an IndyCar driver who holds the unique distinction of being the only driver in the long and storied history of the Indianapolis 500 to lead the fabled event in each of his first six starts. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship in dominating fashion driving for 7-Eleven and Andretti Green Racing, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara. That season he completed 3,305 laps, the first IndyCar Series driver to complete every possible lap in a season. He also led 889 laps in 13 separate races to establish an IndyCar Series record.

Kanaan was the 1997 Indy Lights champion, driving for Tasman. In 1999 he scored his first major victory in the Champ Car World Series by winning the U.S. 500 at Michigan International Speedway for Forsythe Championship Racing. After the Forsythe team lost their McDonald's sponsorship package, Kanaan moved on to Mo Nunn's start-up team for the next three years before moving on to the IRL.

Following his championship season, in 2005 he placed second in the championship to his teammate Dan Wheldon. That year, he won his first pole position for the Indianapolis 500 to add to his finishes of second, third, fifth and eighth in the event. Winning the Indianapolis 500 remains one of the few holes in his resume. In September 2005 he tested a Formula 1 car with the BAR-Honda Team at Jerez as a reward for his 2004 IRL championship in a Honda powered car.

Kanaan is good friend of Brazilian Formula One driver Rubens Barrichello, and they exchanged helmets for the events in May 28, 2006. Barrichello wore Kanaan's helmet livery during the Monaco GP and Kanaan wore Rubens's one during the Indy 500.

Another of Kanaan's long-time good friends and a former teammate from his Tasman days is Helio Castroneves. Kanaan and Castroneves have developed an intense rivalry that has resulted in some hard feelings. Castroneves accused Kanaan of costing him the 2006 IndyCar Series championship by racing him too hard for position in the final race. Kanaan countered that he was not paid to let other people pass him for position. The two started to patch up their differences at Indianapolis in 2007.

Kanaan had a fine 2007 season, winning a series-high five events by taking first place in Japan at Honda's Twin Ring Motegi track, the Milwaukee Mile, Michigan International Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, and the Detroit Grand Prix in Belle Isle. He also took the pole position at Kansas, although a pit-incident with team-mate Danica Patrick dropped him from a possible win. Later he took a second pole position at Kentucky.

At the 2007 Indianapolis 500 he dominated the field and led at a rain delay just past the halfway point. A pit stop right before the rain-shortened race ended gave the race to his teammate, Dario Franchitti. It was the latest in a string of disappointments at Indianapolis, and Kanaan is now often referred to - along with his team owner Michael Andretti - as one of the best drivers never to win the Indianapolis 500.