KANAAN TO DRIVE IN ‘PRELUDE TO THE DREAM’ AT ELDORA JUNE 9

INDIANAPOLIS, Friday, June 4, 2010 – IZOD IndyCar Series fan-favorite driver and
nine-time Indianapolis 500 competitor Tony Kanaan will race in the Gillette
Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream charity race at Eldora Speedway in
Rossburg, Ohio on June 9.

Kanaan, the 2004 IZOD IndyCar Series champion, will have an action-packed day as
he will test his No. 11 Team 7-Eleven car for Andretti Autosport at the Watkins
Glen International road course all day before flying to western Ohio to compete
on Eldora’s half-mile, high-banked dirt oval the evening of June 9.

“I always have watched it (the Prelude) on TV, and when (Juan Pablo) Montoya
made his first attempt a few years ago some guys I know said they’d like to see
me driving on the dirt,” Kanaan said June 4 at Texas Motor Speedway, where he
was preparing for the IZOD IndyCar Series’ Firestone 550K. “It will be
difficult. I’ll be jumping out of a full-day test and go straight to a car that
I’ve never seen before in my life. It’s about having fun, it’s for a good cause
and I’m excited.”

The Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream will be presented live on HBO
Pay-Per-View at 7 p.m. (ET) on June 9 with net proceeds from the telecast
benefiting four children’s hospitals. Former IZOD IndyCar Series champion and
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team owner/driver Tony Stewart owns Eldora and
organizes the popular race.

Kanaan, who advanced 22 positions to finish 11th in the Indianapolis 500 on May
30, will join top drivers such as Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Travis Pastrana,
Jimmie Johnson, Ricky Carmichael, Jeff Gordon and others, to race 2,300-pound
Late Model stock cars at Eldora. The field will be broken up into four teams,
with drivers competing in hot laps, qualifying, heat races and a 30-lap feature.

“It’s an amazing lineup of drivers and we’re all competing for such a good
cause,” said Kanaan. “It’s very rare for me to get a chance to drive something
other than my Team 7-Eleven Indy car and to not have to race with points in
mind. I’m not saying I’m going to do anything crazy because the goal is to help
my team win, but I’m definitely going to have some fun next week.”

Stewart, Johnson, Gordon and other NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers racing in
the Prelude will also compete in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor
Speedway on July 25.