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TELMEX Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Clinches GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Championship
Press Release“Chip Ganassi Racing Teams Set Organization’s Record for Wins in a Season”
In addition, Chip Ganassi Racing Teams, Inc. celebrated yet another historic landmark in 2010 by breaking the team’s record for wins in a single season with 15. Saturday’s win at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in the Rolex Series marked the 15th win in 2010, besting the previous record of 14 set in 2009. The team quickly added win number 16 to the season tally with Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver Dario Franchitti’s IZOD IndyCar Series win at Chicagoland Speedway later that same night.
Pruett and Rojas once again helped Ganassi add to the team record books, after supplying TELMEX Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates wins at Homestead, Barber, VIR, Watkins Glen twice, Mid-Ohio and Daytona earlier this season.
Earlier this month, Ganassi claimed three victories in one weekend in all three of the major touring series (NASCAR, IndyCar and GRAND-AM) his teams compete in. Pruett and Memo Rojas won the Rolex GRAND-AM Series event at Watkins Glen, Juan Pablo Montoya picked up a NSCS victory at Watkins Glen, and Franchitti completed the hat-trick with an IZOD IndyCar Series win at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Ganassi also made history this year by becoming the first owner to win what has become known as the American Racing Triple Crown. Ganassi’s NASCAR team picked up wins in the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400 with Jamie McMurray, and the Indianapolis 500 with Franchitti. In Addition, Ganassi became the first owner to win both of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s marquee events, the Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400, however Ganassi pulled off an even more difficult feat by winning both in the same year.
NOTES OF INTEREST
Team TELMEX
- The GRAND-AM team has 30 Daytona Prototype victories, the most in series history.
- Pruett and Rojas broke the Rolex Series record with their eighth win after tying the record earlier this year.
- Pruett and Rojas matched another milestone with their 10th podium of the season. Max Angelelli and Wayne Taylor accomplished that in 2005, en route to the Daytona Prototype title.
Target Chip Ganassi Racing
- Franchitti’s win in Chicagoland cut point leader Will Power’s lead from 59 to 23 with three races remaining.
- Franchitti and Scott Dixon have combined to win five of the 14 races on the IZOD IndyCar Series season.
Chip Ganassi Racing Teams, Inc.
- Chip Ganassi Racing Teams continue to add to their tally of 131 trips to victory lane since 1990.
- The teams reached the 16-win mark with 16 of races left across the three series.
- The 16 wins breakdown as follows across the three major series: 3 NASCAR, 5 IndyCar and 8 GRAND-AM.
- Chip Ganassi Racing Teams, Inc Press Release
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