Filed under: IRL, Indianapolis 500, NASCAR
HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- It is the greatest single season success story in all of auto racing.
Chip Ganassi's race teams have won the 2010 Daytona 500, Indianapolis 500, Brickyard 400, Grand-Am Series sportscar championship and Saturday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway, added an IZOD IndyCar Series championship with driver Dario Franchitti overcoming an 11-point weekend deficit to earn his second straight championship and third in the last four years.
As the Target Ganassi team's Manager of Racing, Mike Hull, casually suggested while walking out of the champions' press conference, "I guess it worked out.''
Indeed. It's the first time in history one team owner has won the Daytona 500 and Indy 500 in the same year and Ganassi didn't stop there. All the sport's biggest trophies -- from NASCAR to IndyCar to Sports Cars -- will reside in his Pittsburgh home.
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"It's going to be tough to repeat that,'' Franchitti said. "Chip's just had an incredible year.'' Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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