Chevrolet and Chip Ganassi Racing teams partner in IndyCar Series for 2014
The announcement comes on the same day that Chip Ganassi Racing announced Tony Kanaan as a new driver for the next season.
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HOUSTON—One of the most successful race teams in IndyCar Series history will be powered by Chevrolet starting in 2014.
Chevrolet has entered into an agreement with Chip Ganassi Racing Teams to compete in IndyCar Series competition beginning next season. Chip Ganassi Racing Teams has won 93 races, including four in the Indianapolis 500, and nine championships since its founding in 1990.
“Chip’s teams have been a dominant force in open wheel racing for a long time, and we are looking forward to working together in IndyCar,” said Jim Campbell, Vice President of Performance Vehicles and Motorsports. “In addition, it will be great to be partnered with Chip and his organization in both open-wheel and stock-car racing.”
“This decision makes a lot of sense for us for a number of reasons,” said Chip Ganassi, Owner of Chip Ganassi Racing Teams. “We feel Chevrolet has done a great job in their return to the IndyCar Series and because of our existing relationship with them in NASCAR. There are a lot of synergies that we will be able to realize in working with the same manufacturer across the two series. We are thrilled.”
Chip Ganassi Racing Teams drivers Dario Franchitti, Scott Dixon and Charlie Kimball have combined to win four races and two poles so far in 2013. Franchitti is a three-time IndyCar Series champion and three-time Indianapolis 500 winner; Dixon is a two-time IndyCar champ and the 2008 Indianapolis 500 winner.
Tony Kanaan will join Chip Ganassi Racing Teams starting in 2014. Kanaan’s IndyCar career includes 16 wins, 11 poles, the 2004 Series’ championship, and he is the reigning Indianapolis 500 champion.
Chevrolet returned to IndyCar racing as an engine manufacturer in 2012 with a new program focusing on the Chevrolet 2.2 liter direct-injected, twin turbo IndyCar V6, and won 11 of 15 races, and won the IZOD IndyCar Series Manufacturers’ Championship, the overall Driver’s Championship (Ryan Hunter-Reay), Driver’s Oval Track Championship (Hunter-Reay) and Driver’s Road-Course Championship (Will Power).
Chevrolet has nine poles and eight wins through the first 16 races of the 2013 IndyCar season.
Chevrolet won seven Manufacturer Championships in 2012: IZOD IndyCar Series; NASCAR Sprint Cup Series; NASCAR Nationwide Series; NASCAR Camping World Truck Series; American Le Mans Series (ALMS); GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype (DP) class; and FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) Manufacturers’ Championship.
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