Catchfence

Target Chip Ganassi Racing and Team Penske’s dominance of the 2009 IndyCar Series has been either stupendous or boring to watch depending on your point of view. But no matter where you stand, there’s one thing that can be agreed on.

The “Big Three” has become the “Big Two.”

Andretti Green Racing has gotten a strong season out of Danica Patrick, but overall, the team has been unable to keep up with the Ganassi gang of Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti and the Penske duo of Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe.

Team leader Tony Kanaan comes into Richmond as the defending race champion, but he’s also trying to shake a string of bad luck that has seen him DNF in three of the last four events. Marco Andretti has only grabbed one top-5 finish this season and the same goes for AGR’s fourth driver Hideki Mutoh.

All four drivers are in the top ten in points, but this season, it’s been the “Big Two” versus everybody else. And now, AGR has joined the side of the latter. They’ll have another tough job ahead of them tonight on the bullring.

- The Queensberry Rules