TONY KANAAN (No. 11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone, winner Indy Japan 300): “Dan (Wheldon) was really, really strong, so I’m pretty happy. I’m very happy. Now let’s move on, I mean it feels good to bring the Team 7-Eleven car to Victory Lane. It was fun to have a battle with a friend. It’s great to fight clean the way we did throughout the entire race. We passed each other with no problems at all. The Team 7-Eleven crew did a great job today. “
DAN WHELDON (No. 10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara/Honda/Firestone, finished second): “I think I have to say when you consider the pace of our car, I think even Tony would agree it was probably the best out there. It was just a little bit unfortunate we lost radio communication pretty early on. We were being very conservative with the time that we had to pit. Perhaps some improvements we could have made with the car over the duration of the race. I think that was basically what really hindered us. Not so much the fact that we didn’t have the radio, but just the time that we had to pit because of that. ”
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