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CHAMPIONSHIP RUN; A second-place finish at California gives Kanaan his first IRL drivers' title.(Motorsports)
Byline: CURT CAVIN
To no one's surprise, Tony Kanaan became the Indy Racing League's champion Sunday at California Speedway. But how he did it was remarkable.
Kanaan rallied from a last-place starting spot (due to an engine problem in Saturday's qualifying) to finish second in the Toyota Indy 400. And he nearly won, too. Adrian Fernandez nipped him at the finish line by 0.0183 second, a distance of about three feet.
The IRL has staged 3105 laps in 15 races this season, and Kanaan has completed all of them.
The 29-year-old Brazilian won three races and finished in the top-five 14 consecutive times. He led 884 laps. Everything in this and the previous paragraph is an IRL record.
"I've never seen anything like that,'' said Kanaan's team owner Michael Andretti, CART's 1991 driving champion. "That's incredible.''
Kanaan wants to keep all the streaks alive. He has been trading jabs with former Panther Racing chief mechanic Kevin Blanch, who now works for the IRL, about breaking all of Blanch's records with Sam Hornish Jr. "We're not done yet,'' Kanaan said.
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