Check out a short list of favorites for Sunday's Shell 300 Grand Prix of Monterey at Laguna Seca.

	Andretti

Michael Andretti
Last time in California won the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 14; his 42 career wins are the most in CART; is sixth in CART standings with 28 points; has at least one win in 15 consecutive seasons; won this event in 1992 when he ended the season with four consecutive poles; is third in Champ Car wins, trailing A.J. Foyt (67) and his father, Mario Andretti (52); has finished in the top 10 17 times in his 18-year career.

Patrick Carpentier
The Canadian driver finished 10th in the 2001 CART standings and is 13th through the first four races this year; finished 15th after starting third at the Miller Lite 250 in Milwaukee; finished 26th here last year after placing ninth in 2000.

Scott Dixon
The 21-year-old from New Zealand was the 2001 Jim Trueman Rookie of the Year; became the youngest driver to win in any major open-wheel racing series at 20 years, nine months, 14 days at Nazareth in May 2001; finished fourth here last year when he started a career-best third

Dario Franchitti
Had two top-five finishes and a top-10 before finishing 12th at the Miller Lite 250; that brought his point total to 35, one behind leader Michael Jourdain; finished 19th at the Indianapolis 500 two weeks ago; has seven career wins with the last coming in Cleveland on July 1, 2001; was 19th here last year after finishing third in 2000.

Cristiano da Matta
The Brazilian is fifth in the standings with 29 points; while most American open-wheel racing fans and several CART drivers focused on the Indianapolis 500 in the month of May, Da Matta went to France and tested Toyota's first year Formula One car on May 18 at the Paul Ricard circuit; started seventh and finished 11th at Milwaukee last week.

Michel Jourdain Jr.
A surprise first in the current series standings with 42 points, seven ahead of Dario Franchitti; started 18th and finished fifth in Milwaukee, marking his fourth straight top-five finish; the 25-year-old entered the year with just one top-5 finish; finished 23rd here last year.

	Tracy

Paul Tracy
A protest by Team Green was filed after his disputed second-place finish at the Indianapolis 500; the protest was denied, but Team Green filed an appeal on Monday; put aside the protest and held off pole sitter Adrian Fernandez to win the Miller Lite 250; the victory moved him from 15th to third in the standings,three points behind Dario Franchitti; was 18th here last year, one spot in front of Franchitti.

Jimmy Vasser
After a gearbox problem ended his race on lap 87 of the Indy 500, returned to CART and finished ninth after starting 12 at Milwaukee; is 11th in the standings with 21 points, the second-highest total by an American; was fifth here last year and has earned points in seven of 10 career starts here, topped by victory in 1997 when he set the race record at 109.647 miles per hour.