#team: chip ganassi

[leo-dm66]

INDYCAR 2025 PRIMER

HI EVERYONE i took the liberty of making an indycar 2025 primer already (with some basics and background info on a couple things) for anyone who wants to check it out! It will be updated over the off season for driver announcements and such!

[sainzstorms]

detroit gp

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and it feels like home | a champion is crowned 9.15.24 👑

[opelman]

FORD GT / Ryan BRISCOE / AUS / Richard WESTBROOK / GBR / Scott DIXON / NZL / FORD CHIP GANASSI TEAM USA by Artes Max Via Flickr: 24 Horas de Le Mans 2019 / Circuito de Le Sarthe / Le Mans / Francia

[idontgotopartiesanymore]

oh look it’s the kiwi train

[bluejeanscountrydreams]

Hello fellow IndyCar fans! I've been working on exchanging trading cards & hero cards with others.

Anyone out there looking for hero cards (signed/unsigned) from this year with maybe a few still from last season? Just let me know! I'll happily send them along.

Personally, I am looking for Alexander Rossi ones from the Andretti era.

**Edit: You don't necessarily have to trade anything if you want someone, I am nice like that!**

(pic of Josef one just for shiny attention)  

[thiemrossi]

 2022 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix: Will Power, Alexander Rossi, & Scott Dixon post race 

[mcgnussen]

NEWS: romain recently revealed that apparently kevin was testing an indycar only a few weeks before he got the call from guenther, romain also said that k-mag wanted to try and get into indycar because he missed driving a single seater car 👀  

(source: https://www.sportnewscentral.com/formula1/romain-grosjean-admits-he-did-not-see-kevin-magnussen-f1-return-coming-planetf1/)

[thisisyourdriverspeaking]

Apparantly Alex Palou is in talks with two F1 teams about a seat next year... if he leaves Chip Ganassi racing & a chance to constantly fight for titles in Indycar to go to the back of the grid in F1 then he is fucking stupid

[anandrettisimp]

2025 WOMEN IN MOTORSPORTS INITIATIVE

So for the fourth year in a row Chip Ganassi Racing is doing its fully funded internship program for women who are looking to have a career in motorsport with several alumni already fulfilling that desire and one even now working full time at Ganassi.

Now it is based in the USA and you should be enrolled in undergraduate courses focused on, but not limited to, engineering, mathematics, automotive mechanics, computer science, information technology, athletic training, or similar major and with a GPA of at least 3.5.

You will also have to relocate to Indianapolis for the duration of the program but you will be integrated into the team and helping at both the base and on track.

If this is something that would appeal to here then you can apply here. You have until the 31st of September.

Good luck!

[coimbrabertone]

MotoGP Silly Season Predictions - Plus Larson Waiver Talk.

As recently as this morning, I was planning on this week's blogpost being about the Kyle Larson waiver situation over in NASCAR, however, MotoGP then decided to do everything all at once and launched silly season into high gear.

So, with regards to Larson, I'll just say one thing: he raced in the Indianapolis 500 competitively and made NASCAR look good mere years after Jimmie Johnson, unfortunately, struggled in a Chip Ganassi Indycar on road and street circuits - and there were a lot of jokes at NASCAR's expense after their seven-time world champion spun out every race. So how does NASCAR repay him? Utter silence over whether or not he'll get a playoff waiver.

Kyle Larson is the 2021 champion, took his car to the owner's championship final four as a result of playoff shenanigans in 2022, and then made the final four in 2023 again. He is considered one of the top talents in NASCAR and he has the results to back it up. So why is there controversy over him getting a playoff waiver for this year?

Because Kyle Larson prioritized the Indianapolis 500 last weekend.

I talked about this in my Motorsports Christmas blogpost, but the Indy 500 was rain delayed and Kyle Larson stayed there to compete, and only then he flew out to Charlotte. Now, Kyle Larson landed, was ready to get into the car, but then it started raining in Charlotte too. Just before midnight, as the track was drying, NASCAR controversially decided to call the race, thus Kyle Larson was not able to relieve Justin Allgaier in the #5 and resume the rest of the Coke 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

NASCAR is mad because every other weekend of the year, they're the biggest show in racing, they can throw their weight around and try to chase NFL ratings while all other racing series are considered a niche. That's true every weekend except Memorial Day weekend, when the Indianapolis 500 reigns supreme. The whole existence of the Charlotte 600 is to compete with Indy.

Larson prioritized the bigger race and that made NASCAR made, because they're used to getting their egos stroked.

Larson is one of the best drivers in NASCAR and the double attempt brought good publicity to both sports. He had already won his way into the playoffs and made an effort to get to Charlotte for the end of the 600 - give him a waiver. If not, well, you face the possibility that Austin Cindric is in the playoffs after his shock win at Iowa, and one of the top drivers in the series isn't.

I like Austin, I'm glad he won, but he's nowhere near the same level as Kyle Larson. If he can compete for the championship and Kyle can't, then it makes the NASCAR playoffs look even less legitimate than they already are.

Anyway, that turned into a longer rant than I intended, so I'll leave it there. Now onto the main topic for today: MotoGP silly season.

Yesterday at Mugello, Enea Bastianini spent the final laps of the race charging from fourth to second, overtaking Marc Marquez for third and then pulling off an audacious last corner pass on Jorge Martin for second. This meant that Enea finished just eight tenths off leader Pecco Bagnaia for a factory Ducati 1-2.

So naturally, Ducati has decided to replace him.

Marc Marquez, who finished four and last out of these three, is going to the Ducati Lenovo Team, according to Autosport.

This was all but confirmed when, a few hours later, Aprilia confirmed the signing of Jorge Martin for Aprilia. Jorge Martin who finished third and got overtaken by Enea Bastianini in the final corner, mind you.

Now, of course, Ducati is not judging this off of one race alone and I acknowledge - as I did in two recent blogposts - that Enea has had a rotten time on the factory Ducati seat. That being said, seeing him lose Ducati to Marc Marquez, who finished last of the main three, and then lose out on the Aprilia seat to the guy he overtook in the final corner. It stings.

That being said, some news out of this weekend might offer a possibility for Enea to have a bit of a soft landing from the factory seat anyway. Let me explain:

Earlier in this weekend, Marc Marquez spelled out his demands in an interview. He said that he was not interested in going to Pramac, saying that he didn't want to switch from a satellite team (he's currently riding a 2023 Ducati at Gresini Racing) to another satellite team (Pramac runs 2024 Ducatis, same as the factory team, with factory contracted riders, they are still customers, however). Instead, Marquez said that the best option was a factory team, and if not that, then a factory bike at minimum.

Translation: Marc Marquez wanted the factory team for 2025, and if he couldn't get that, then he wanted a 2025 Ducati at Gresini, remaining at his current team.

In response, Gino Borsoi, who is the team manager at Pramac, insisted that his team had a contract for two factory-spec Ducati GP25s next year. This was somewhat of a surprise for a number of reasons, one: Ducati announced late last year that they signed Moto2 rider Fermin Aldeguer for 2025, and it seemed like the natural landing spot for him was going to be Pramac...until it emerged later on that Ducati wanted to start Fermin out on a 2024 bike. Two: regardless of which spec Ducati Fermin is going to be on, Pramac has been heavily linked to Yamaha lately.

The Japanese bikes are struggling in MotoGP right now and, ever since RNF switched to satellite Aprilias for 2023, Yamaha has not had a satellite team. Four bikes capturing data instead of two could really help Yamaha right now, so they've been linked to pretty much every Ducati satellite team the last few months. VR46 with the romanticism of a Valentino Rossi and Yamaha reunion, Gresini until they renewed their deal, and most recently, with Pramac.

Yamaha was desperate and the rumor has been that they offered very generous terms to Pramac.

So, the news that Pramac may stay with Ducati after all is a shock to the media, but it does not seem to have been much of a shock to Ducati. Ducati had been working on a way to keep both Martin and Marquez, and it seems that they wanted to offer Pramac the chance to run MotoGP's biggest star - Marc Marquez - as a reason to stay...and potentially a reason to accept taking on a rookie Aldeguer on a year-old bike as well.

Now that Marquez is going to the factory team instead and Jorge Martin has snatched the open Aprilia seat, I see an opening. Ducati can send Enea Bastianini to Pramac, keeping him on a factory spec bike while giving Pramac another frontrunning rider. Aldeguer joins as Bastianini's teammate, on a GP25 if that's what it takes to keep Pramac in the fold, because Marc Marquez will be in the factory team so freeing up a GP25 won't be as important.

What about VR46 and Gresini then? Well, I think Marco Bezzecchi's current season has been a bit of a disaster, so he won't really have much of a chance to get a factory ride next year, so staying at VR46 seems likely. Furthermore, his struggles mean that Bezzecchi probably isn't going to have much luck demanding Ducati gives him a GP25, so status quo is probably the most likely outcome there. It's unfortunate for Bezzecchi, but the sheer reality is that, with all these hot riders on the market, his options seem to be either stay at VR46, or make a more or less lateral move to Trackhouse Aprilia.

Then Franco Morbidelli, another Valentino Rossi academy product, can drop from Pramac into the other VR46 seat.

Where does Fabio DiGiannantonio go then? Well, with Marquez going to the factory, Fabio can now return to Gresini and be reunited with Frankie Carchedi. Thus, restoring the 2023 lineup of Fabio DiGiannantonio and Alex Marquez.

So, to sum things up, I think Ducati can keep all three of its satellite teams and all eight bikes like this:

Ducati Lenovo (GP25): Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez.

Pramac (GP25): Enea Bastianini and Fermin Aldeguer.

VR46 (GP24): Marco Bezzecchi and Franco Morbidelli.

Gresini (GP24): Fabio DiGiannantonio and Alex Marquez.

Maybe Pramac will go to Yamaha after all, maybe my predictions will look radically wrong in a few weeks. I don't know how it'll turn out, but this is the scheme I've thought up in my mind.

I need to do something since with Marc Marquez at Ducati and Jorge Martin at Aprilia, my two favorite teams now have my two least favorite riders and I'm trying not to dwell on that part.

So yeah.

Oh, also this weekend Indycar raced at Detroit, but uhh...the less said about that, the better.

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❝i did not become a doctor driver for this.❞ - pato o’ward & the heartbreak of the indy 500 (so far…)

one of my MAGNUM OPUSES…..this edit. mannn this edit took me a bit!! BUT IM REALLY HAPPY WITH IT!! i feel like pato has had so much heartbreak at the 500 each and every time he’s raced in it, and this song absolutely encapsulates what the emotion of nothing going right at the end must feel…i want to see him SMILE and be in the winners circle so bad. It will happen one day, i know it :D and finally pato fans im sorry for always subjecting him and you to the horrors of my mind, it unfortunately will happen again…. (tw for several crashes at the 500)

edit: 7/2/24; I definitely didn’t plan to post this today but…with the recent news it feels right now

song is american healthcare (glitzy) by penelope scott

[dystini]

So the charter system is a go. Ugh

Racer article

Highlights:

RACER understands two team owners declined to sign the paperwork, and after receiving calls from Penske urging them to take part, one signed, followed by the other, which led to internal ratification of the program over the weekend and today’s issuance of charters.

Nothing like a little pressure from the series owner...

Penske Entertainment retains permanent ownership of each of the 25 charters that were distributed. With its approval, which also includes receiving a percentage of any sales, Penske will welcome new entrants to the series, or the sale of charters from one member to another, which grants guaranteed participation in every IndyCar race for those who ‘own’ charters, barring the Indianapolis 500.

Of the 25 charter entries, the top 22 will continue to get the $1 million contracts, leaving the three lowest charter entries on the outside of the Leaders Circle payouts; the process resets at the start of each new season.

The last number of interest is 27, which will be enforced starting next season as the new entry limit per race, except for the Indy 500, but RACER has confirmed the 27-car cap is not contained within the charter. If it had been included in the charter, Penske would have been obliged to honor that number through 2031. By leaving it out and making it the domain of IndyCar’s sporting regulations, the series’ parent company has given itself the latitude reduce the cap in the coming years to no more than 25 cars — to match the number of charters – which is expected throughout the paddock.

So they could limit the field to 25 cars in the future. So much for growing the sport.

The breakdown of charters per team starts with AJ Foyt Racing (2), Andretti Global (3), Arrow McLaren (3), Chip Ganassi Racing (3), Dale Coyne Racing (2), Ed Carpenter Racing (2), Juncos Hollinger Racing (2), Mayer Shank Racing (2), Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (3), and ends with Team Penske (3).

Of the other restrictions ratified within the charter that’s said to be 40 or so pages in length, the ‘Dale Coyne Rule,’ as it was nicknamed, which limits a team to using a maximum of three drivers per entry each season, has been approved.

Personally, I do not like any of this.

[champagnepodiums]

Some Early(ish) Thoughts on the whole Alex Palou Contract Situation™️

I am dumping the thoughts that have been percolating in my head all weekend about the situation here, hopefully it’ll all make sense but cohesiveness is not generally my strong suit but these are the things that have stuck out most to me so far about the whole situation:

The Inciting Incident: I think it’s REALLY interesting that an internal e-mail from Zak Brown somehow just magically managed to make its way to Jenna Fryer who ofc did her due diligence and wrote about it. The telling? thing to me though was that Nathan Brown from IndyStar was very quickly (like I think it was within an hour or two) able to confirm the story. On a Friday evening 🙃. Like it doesn’t seem like a far stretch to assume that McLaren wanted to establish this story to reflect favorably for them.

The Concept of Loyalty in Motorsports: This whole situation has sparked lots of discourse and it is interesting (and frustrating) that people on Twitter at least, already seem to be siding with McLaren and slamming Alex Palou for not being loyal but really — why should he? He is the hottest prospect in motorsports right now and if McLaren has failed to provide things they have allegedly promised (F1 opportunities and a comparable IndyCar program), why does Alex owe them his loyalty? (I am talking specifically about loyalty here). If teams can break contracts, why can’t drivers?

The babygirlification of Alex Palou and why I admire him through this: okay like it is very humorous that the smiliest driver on the grid is the one causing trouble but people are acting like just because he’s outwardly smiley, there’s no way that he can actually be apart of this and make no mistake, both can exist at once. I think all racing drivers at the top level have to be a certain degree of ruthless and I think Alex Palou is just willing to bet on himself and ruffle feathers in the process to get the best deal for himself. I personally think that it’s admirable, I mean, he is the one strapping himself into a deathmobile so like why should he be stuck with Zak Brown’s promises that I don’t think he really had much intention on completely following through with (see Pato’s F1 deal lmao)

Chip Ganassi Issued the Statement Against McLaren because He Saw An Opportunity to Be Petty and He Couldn’t Resist: The Race published an article that basically was like “Is it fair to McLaren that Chip Ganassi called them out but didn’t call Alex Palou out because this is his fault” and that’s stupid for so many reasons. Like did Chip really have to make a statement? Probably not. But was he going to pass up an opportunity to say some mean shit about his nemesis? No lol. But also it makes absolutely no sense for CGR to slam Alex Palou, especially if all of this means that he will stay?

We Actually Don’t Know What is Going On: There was a lot of speculation and opinions from everybody over the weekend about the situation (most of which I cover above) and I think something we should keep it mind is that all we know at this moment is Zak Brown’s version of events (the ex-management company too but uh, I don’t trust anything they say so). There is still so much that we don’t know so while speculation is fine, I think completely writing off Alex Palou should be avoided — it’s honestly probably what Zak Brown wants everybody to do.

I think that sums up what I’ve had rattling around in my brain. I’m up for discussing this whole situation so feel free to send your thoughts my way 🫶🫶🫶

[suzuki-ecstar]

thank you catie @skitskatdacat63 for the tag! this was fun to think about!!

i included motogp bc without it all my answers would be like fernando ALONSO 💜 and that would be kinda boring

i will tag @comradejoanmir @loverpoolisms @flyingfabio @its-always-silly-season @indiangp @captainbradmarchand you can do it for either f1/motogp but please please please please i would like to know your answers 🤲

who is your favorite driver?

fernando alonso

do you have any other favorite drivers?

i also like joan mir, alex rins, and marc marquez :)

who is your least favorite driver?

max used to be that guy but now i can’t even get worked up about his utter inevitability. do you get mad when the day turns to night :/

do you pull for drivers or do you like teams as well?

i go where fernando goes

if you like teams, what team do you pull for?

my one true love in this world was suzuki motogp team bc i liked both riders and the constructor, and i will never experience that high again 🤧

actually it’s for the best that i don’t usually root for teams bc i supported suzuki and they withdrew from motogp, then i supported chip ganassi cadillac and they announced they’re dissolving their partnership with caddy. like i'm down 0-2 i need to start playing offense

how long have you been into f1?

only since 2022

for motogp - since 2020

what got you into f1?

i think there's just something visually satisfying about motogp like. the way the bikes lean into curves just scratches some itch in my brain idk. and then of course learning more about the riders, seeing their anger and joy every week, i just fell in love with the sport

for f1 - i initially started watching bc motogp was on break 😭 but i kept watching bc of the fernando alonso narratives™. what a contradiction of a man. PEEPAW 💜

do you enjoy fanfic/rpf?

i do but it is not the primary way that i engage w fandom tbh

how do you view new fans?

i think i technically am one lmao?? i try to avoid gatekeeping ofc but i do get massive headloss from seeing motogp takes on twt

if you could take over as team principal for any team, who would it be and why?

sauber bc i don’t think i could make it much worse than it already is

are your friends and family into f1 as well?

my brother is also motorsports enjoyer

my friends are vaguely aware of f1 and they’ve decided they hate this alonso fella 😭

are you open to talking to other fans/friends?

the best part of watching f1/motogp has been my moots so yes don’t be a stranger!

[motorsportverso]

12h Sebring 2024

Que foi a estreia do Lamborghini SC63 na GTP no IMSA

Na largada o Cadillac V Series R #31 se manteve na frente com Pipo Derani

Na largada na GTD Pró e GTD

E teve uma confusão entre os GTS , envolvendo a  Ferrari #62 da Risi Competizone

A rodada do Oreca #88 da AF Corse

A batida do Cadillac #31 com Pipo Derani causada por um toque com a Ferrari da Triarse Competizone  , que alias foi no mesmo ponto em que o Argentino José Maria Lopez bateu nas 1000 Milhas de Sebring em 2022 com Toyota Hypercar.

Momento da batida do Acura NSX GT3 da equipe Gradiant Racing  , que colocou bandeira amarela na pista inteira.

Momento em que o Acura #40 passava o Cadillac #01 da Cadillac Racing\Chip Ganassi e assumia a liderança no final da corrida.

 A vitória ficou o Acura ARX06 #40 da WTTR Andretti , a primeira do segundo carro da equipe

O Lexus RC F GT3 da Vasser Sullivan Racing na GTD Pró , na LMP2, a vencedora foi a Era Motorsport.

GTP

1-40-Jordam Taylor\Colton Herta\Louis Deletraz-Acura ARX06-WTTR Andretti-333 Laps

2-01-Scott Dixon\Range Van Der Zande\Sebastien Bordais-Cadillac V Series R-Cadillac Racing\Chip Ganassi

3-7-Felipe Nasr\Matt Campbell\Dane Cameron-Porsche 963-Porsche Penske Motorsport

4-25-Dris Vanthorn\Connor De Philippe\Maxime Martin-BMW M LMDH V8-BMW Team RLL

5-10-Filipi Albuquerque\Brandon Hartley\Ricky Taylor-Acura ARX06-WTTR Andretti

6- 24-Philip Eng\Augusto Farfus\Jesse Khron-BMW M LMDH V8-BMW Team RLL

7-63-Matteo Cairoli\Romain Grosjean\Andrea Calderelli-Lamborghini SC63-Lamborghini Iron Lynx

8-5-Julian Andlauer \Gian Maria Bruni-Porsche 963-Mustang Simpling Racing-Proton

9-6-Nick Tandy\Frederick Makowickie\Mathieu Jaminet-Porsche 963-Porsche Penske Motorsport  +1 Lap

LMP2-TOP 3

1-18-Ryan Dalziel\Connor Zilisch\Dwight Merriman-Oreca 7-Era Motorsport-330 Laps

2-11-Miken Jensen\Steven Thomas\Hunter McElrea-Oreca 7-TDS Racing

3-22-Paul Di Resta\Bijoy Garg\Dan Goldburg-Oreca 7-United Autoesports

GTD PRÓ-Top 5

1-14-Ben Bernicoat\Kyle Kirkwood\Jack Hawkshorth-Lexus RC F GT3-Vasser Sullivan-316 Laps

2-62-David Rigon\James Calado\Daniel Serra-Ferrari 296 GT3-Risi Competizone

3-19-Mirko Bortolotti\Jordan Pepper\Franck Pereira-Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo 2-Iron Lynx

4-1-Bryan Sellers\Madison Snow\Neil Verghagen-BMW M4 GT3-Paul Miller Racing

5-23-Alex Riberas\Ross Gun\Mario Farnbacher-Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo-Heart Of Racing

GTD-Top 5

1-57-Russel Ward\Phillip Ellis\Indy Dontje-Mercedes-AMG GT3-Winward Racing-314 Laps

2-47-Antonio Fuoco\Roberto Lacorte\Giorgio Sergionatto-Ferrari 296 GT3-Cetilar Racing

3-120-Adam Adelson\Jan Haylen\Eliott Skeer-Porsche 992 GT3 R-Wright Motorsport

4-27-Roman de Angelis\Ian James\Zacharie Robichon-Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo-Heart Of Racing

5- 78-Loris Spinelli\Devlin Defrancesco\Misha Goikhberg-Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo 2-Forte Racing