Chip Ganassi Racing
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| owner | Chip Ganassi |
| Racing series | IndyCar Series |
| Championships | 6 × IndyCar + 1 × Grand-Am |
| Start number (s) | # 8 (IndyCar) # 9 (IndyCar) # 10 (IndyCar) |
| driver |
Marcus Ericsson (# 8 - IndyCar) Scott Dixon (# 9 - IndyCar) Felix Rosenquist (# 10 - IndyCar) |
| Manufacturer | Honda (IndyCar) |
| Place of the workshop | Indianapolis , Indiana |
| Homepage | www.chipganassiracing.com |
Chip Ganassi Racing is the Concord , North Carolina- based team of former US racing driver Chip Ganassi . The racing team is represented in the IndyCar Series , the NASCAR and the Grand-Am series and was successful in the Champ Car series until 2002 .
Champ car
Ganassi founded his own team in 1990 with the sponsor Target . In 1992 the entry into the Champ Car series , the highest American monoposto racing series, in which the team set a record with four consecutive championships ( Jimmy Vasser 1996 , Alex Zanardi 1997 and 1998 , Juan Pablo Montoya 1999 ); the latter even as a rookie .
Driver in the Champ Car Series
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IndyCar Series
In 2000, Ganassi took part in the Indianapolis 500 with the Champ Car drivers. This race was won by Juan-Pablo Montoya, while Jimmy Vasser took seventh place. In 2001, participation in the Indianapolis 500 was doubled: While Jimmy Vasser, Bruno Junqueira and Tony Stewart occupied positions 4-6, Nicolas Minassian dropped out early with a gearbox failure. In 2002, Ganassi Racing then, with Jeff Ward as driver, registered a vehicle for the entire Indy Racing League. Kenny Bräck, Bruno Junqueira and Jimmy Vasser completed the one-car team at the Indianapolis 500. Pole-sitters Junqueira and Vasser dropped out at the same time due to gearbox damage. Jeff Ward and Kenny Bräck finished ninth and eleventh.
In 2003 Ganassi Racing then started with only two cars in the series, which was now called the IndyCar Series, the drivers were Scott Dixon and Tomas Scheckter . While Dixon won three races and the championship, Scheckter was replaced by Darren Manning . After two unsuccessful years in which several drivers at the wheel of the vehicle took turns with the # 10 Ganassi, joined the team in 2006 with that of Andretti Green Racing poached Dan Wheldon on. In addition, for the 2006 season they switched from the Panoz G-Force to the Dallara chassis, which has now dominated the series. Scott Dixon continued to drive in the number 9 car.
Ganassi went with the same driver crew in the following two years. Dixon won his first Indianapolis 500 in 2008 and a second title in the championship. For the 2009 season, Wheldon was replaced by Dario Franchitti . Franchitti took the IndyCar Series title in both his first season for Ganassi and in the next two years, and also won the Indianapolis 500 for Ganassi in 2010 and 2012. He drove for Ganassi up to and including 2013 , where he sustained a serious injury in an accident at the penultimate run in Houston, skipped the last race of the season and then ended his career. Dixon won the IndyCar Series title for the third time this season.
Since 2011 , Ganassi has also been using two more vehicles that are looked after by a team that is independent of the two existing vehicles. In 2011 and 2012 Charlie Kimball and Graham Rahal were used, who achieved a podium placement in these two years. In 2013 only Kimball drove in this team and scored his first IndyCar win.
Driver in the IndyCar Series
NASCAR
The NASCAR division of Chip Ganassi Racing was merged for the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season with Dale Earnhardt, Inc. to form Earnhardt Ganassi Racing .
Grand-Am
In the Grand-Am series , Ganassi uses a Riley Lexus with Scott Pruett and Luis Diaz . With a second car and IRL drivers Dan Wheldon and Scott Dixon as well as NASCAR driver Casey Mears , Ganassi Racing won the 2006 Daytona 24 Hours . The team was able to repeat this success in the following years 2007 and 2008.
successes
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| season | driver |
| 2006 |
 Scott Dixon / Dan Wheldon / Casey Mears 
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| 2007 |
 Juan Pablo Montoya / Scott Pruett / Salvador Durán 
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| 2008 |
Juan Pablo Montoya / Dario Franchitti / Scott Pruett / Memo Rojas
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| 2011 |
Joey Hand / Graham Rahal / Scott Pruett / Memo Rojas
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| 2013 |
Juan Pablo Montoya / Charlie Kimball / Scott Pruett / Memo Rojas
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| 2015 |
Scott Dixon / Tony Kanaan / Kyle Larson / Jamie McMurray
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* as Earnhardt Ganassi Racing
literature
- Ned Wicker: Indy Car Champion. A Season with Target Chip Ganassi Racing. Motorbooks International, Osceola WI 1997, ISBN 0-7603-0394-0 .
