Tony Kanaan Gets Self-Deprecating In 'IndyCar Test Drive'

Tony Kanaan is the latest IndyCar driver to take the ‘IndyCar Test Drive’ trivia challenge, and the veteran ended up making fun of himself. Watch the video.

You’d think that Tony Kanaan, being one of the most experienced IndyCar drivers, would crush the league’s trivia challenge. And you would be wrong.

Kanaan was the latest contestant in the “IndyCar Test Drive” game, and in the video that came out on Friday, we learned that the driver of the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet is close but not close enough when it comes to certain facts and figures.

This might frustrate a lot of people but Kanaan is also good-natured enough to make fun of himself when he just barely misses a couple of questions.

And be on the listen for the moment when he takes a little jab at those retirement rumors that have been dogging him all season long.

Watch Tony Kanaan’s “IndyCar Test Drive” below:

Kanaan’s actually being a little hard on himself; his final score of 22 is still better than Josef Newgarden (21) and Simon Pagenaud (18), and if he’d only gotten two more points he would have passed Conor Daly (23). But it seems like nobody is going to be able to catch Ed Carpenter, who positively decimated the game with a score of 34.

While this is his first time competing Kanaan has actually appeared twice on “IndyCar Test Drive.” Last week he videobombed Will Power during Power’s turn at the trivia challenge, just after Power had forgotten to name Kanaan in his speed round of Indianapolis 500 champions. Ouch.

Back on the racetrack Kanaan sits sixth in the IndyCar championship standings with one race to go. He’ll look to at least break into the Top 5 – he’s 19 points behind Newgarden – at the 2016 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma, which takes place this Sunday at California’s Sonoma Raceway.

Even if he doesn’t move up by the end of the season, 2016 will be the 13th year that Kanaan has finished within the Top 10 in the IndyCar championship. Only once, in his final season with KV Racing in 2013, did he miss that mark – and he still came home 11th.

The 2016 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma takes place Sunday, Sept. 18 at Sonoma Raceway.