Tony Kanaan

Antoine Kanaan Filho, Known as Tony Kanaan (born December 31, 1974) is a Brazilian Indycar Driver. Kanaan won the 2004 season championship competing all 3,305 laps. He is currently driving for KV Racing. He has had alot of impressive Indy 500 runs but has always had something happen to prevent him from winning.

Career
In 1998 he started his career in CART with Tasman Motorsports and finished 9th in the points standings. In 1999 he joined Forsythe Racing and won his first race. He spent the next 3 seasons with Mo Nunn racing without a victory before going to the IRL.

In 2003 he joined Andretti Green Racing in the IRL and won in his 2nd start with the team at Phoenix. In 2004 Tony Kanaan had possible one of the best seasons of all time when he every single lap ran and finished in the top 5 in 15 of the 16 races with three victories. In 2005 Kanaan ran another really consistant season to finish 2nd in the standings with 2 wins. 2006 Kanaan droped to 6th in points with only 1 victory. 2007 Kanaan returned with a force winning 5 races and placing 3rd in the season standings.

Kanaan's first season in the unitied IndyCar Series he would finish third with one victory at Richmond. 2009 Kanaan was injured at Indy but continued to race the rest of the season but was unsuccessful. In 2010 Kanaan returned to victory lane at Iowa. Following the 2010 season arguments with Michael Andretti about Marco along with other personal problems forced Kanaan and Andretti to part ways. Kanaan was supposed to sign with Jay Penske's Dragon Racing but the team could not get enough money to compete so Jimmy Vasser the owner of KV Racing signed him to drive a third KV car. Kanaan appeared to be on the road to victory at Milwaukee for KV Racing when he lost control of the car. Kanaan was not able to score a victory but finished a respectful 5th in the points.

Kanaan will return to KV Racing in 2012.