Antoine Rizkallah "Tony" Kanaan Filho (born 31 December 1974), nicknamed "TK", is a Brazilian racing driver who is the team principal of Arrow McLaren.

Kanaan won a race and secured 9 podiums to win 111 points, ranking 5th.

Kanaan began to compete in Indy Lights in 1996 for Tasman Motorsports, returning for the 1997 season.

Kanaan began to compete in CART in 1998 for Tasman Motorsports, finishing out the season ranked ninth in points, with 92.

In 1999, he signed to drive for Forsythe, and won the pole at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach as well as the U.S. 500 to finish the season ranked 11th.

His best results were a trio of eighth-place finishes at the Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix at Nazareth Speedway, the Motorola 220 at Road America and the Honda Indy 300 on the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit.

Kanaan later qualified on the pole position at the Target Grand Prix at Chicago Motor Speedway.

In 2002, Kanaan's highlight through the first three races of the season was a second-place start at the Bridgestone Potenza 500 at Twin Ring Motegi.

At the Miller Lite 250 at the Milwaukee Mile, Kanaan and Mo Nunn Racing switched chassis types to the Lola B02/00.

Kanaan qualified on the pole position at both the Grand Prix Americas at Bayfront Park and The 500 Presented by Toyota at California Speedway, and finished third at both the Molson Indy Vancouver on the Streets of Vancouver and the Molson Indy Montreal at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

An oil leak on the track was not caught by IRL officials and Kanaan crashed, finishing 28th.

In 2003, Kanaan joined IRL full-time, signing with Andretti Green Racing.

Kanaan won the Bombardier 500 at Texas Motor Speedway and the Firestone Indy 200 at Nashville Superspeedway.

[1] Kanaan had an issue with another friends and former teammate from his time at Tasman Motorsports, Hélio Castroneves.

After a complicated race with cautions and a temporary stop, Kanaan was often referred to, along with team owner Michael Andretti, as one of the best drivers never to win the Indianapolis 500.

Despite winning a season-high number of races (5) Kanaan finished 3rd in points, behind Franchitti and Dixon.

Kanaan was involved in a spectacular crash at the MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with Andretti and Tomas Scheckter that had Kanaan flip down the track's back straightaway and hit a portable toilet located next to the track, finishing 22nd.

Kanaan moved up through the field and battled for the lead with Ed Carpenter, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Marco Andretti.

Kanaan won at an average speed of 187.433 miles per hour, breaking the record set by Arie Luyendyk in the 1990 race.

Kanaan tied Sam Hanks as the most experienced driver to win, in their twelfth start.

Kanaan competed in the Sports Car Club of America United States Road Racing Championship in 1998.

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Bryan Herta and Dario Franchitti shared driving with Kanaan at the Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring and won its class, finishing 2nd overall.

He first competed in the Tudor United SportsCar Championship for Chip Ganassi Racing in the No.

In 2010 Tony Stewart offered the driver who won the 2010 Indianapolis 500 a chance to drive in his charity race, the Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway[5] Kanaan participated after Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti opted out.

In 1996, Kanaan drove a Opel Calibra at the Interlagos round of the International Touring Car Championship.

At the next race, the Stock Car Corrida do Milhão, he finished 31st place, retiring after 8 laps.

The driver raced full-time in the 2021 season, driving a Toyota Corolla for Full Time Bassani.

[6] He is a member of the "brat pack", a group of CART drivers who were close friends off the track, along with Dario Franchitti, Max Papis and the late Greg Moore.

2 The Las Vegas Indy 300 was abandoned after Dan Wheldon died from injuries sustained in a 15-car crash on lap 11."