Ganassi Racing aims for 100th IndyCar win Saturday at Iowa Speedway - NBCSports.com
This hypothetical weight isn’t the kind that comes with winning yet another Indianapolis 500 (four) or series championship (10 in CART/IndyCar). It’s the kind that comes with your next win possibly being Chip Ganassi’s 100th as an IndyCar owner. The wait for No. 100 began as soon as Scott Dixon won last June’s Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway for his second win of the year. It continues this weekend in the Iowa Corn 300 at Iowa Speedway, a track Ganassi has won at twice (2008, 09?) before Andretti won the next five races. The road to No. 100 for Ganassi began when the former CART driver became a team owner on April 1, 1990. Four years later, CGR scored its first win with Michael Andretti in the season opening Australian FAI Indy Car Grand Prix at Surfer’s Paradise. Thirty drivers have competed for Ganassi, who has 99 wins and 10 championships with five of those drivers. The current stable of Ganassi drivers have combined to win 38 races for the owner: Dixon has 36, Kanaan and Kimball each have one and Karam has none in his part-time rookie season. Dixon, who earned his first win for Ganassi in 2003 at Homestead, and has two poles to his name at the. Kanaan, who earned his only Ganassi win thus far in the 2014 finale at Fontana, may represent CGR’s best chance to win at Iowa. Source: motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com
