Indycar Championships 1999 vs 2015

In the 2015 Verizon Indycar Series Championship,

Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing) tied in season points with Juan Montoya (Penske Racing).  The tie was broken based on wins, Dixon had 3 wins to Montoya's 2.

Ironically, in 1999, Juan Montoya (racing for Chip Ganassi Racing) tied with Dario Franchitti (Team Kool Green) for the season championship. Juan Montoya won his only Indycar title based on his 6 wins to Dario's 3 that season.

 

 
In the same year that Juan won the Championship, Scott Dixon was a rookie in Indy Lights, and had just won his first Lights race.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Juan Montoya gave Chip Ganassi his 4th Indycar title in 1999.

 



Scott Dixon gave Ganassi Racing it's 11th Indycar title in 2015.
(It was Scott's 4th title)



Sage Karam in Rolex 24 at Daytona

 

We hope our hometown driver Sage Karam does great in his first Rolex 24 at Daytona!

Sage Karam will be racing with

Chip Ganassi Racing

with

 Scott Pruett

 Jamie McMurray

and

 Memo Rojas

 

 He will also be cheered on by us throughout the whole race!

 

Here's an article about Sage, 'Test Of Endurance' , that came in our local paper.

 

A little background:

Sage Karam won the Indy Lights championship with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports

in 2013.  Hopefully this ride in Daytona helps him to get a ride for the 2014 season

 

 

Go Sage!!

 

Indycar Leading up to Fontana.

The final race of the season is a day away and lots of stuff is going on in Indycar.
 

 

* Dario Franchitti had a second surgery on his ankle to repair it after his Houston crash.

 

* Alex Tagliani is filling in for Dario at the season finale this weekend at Fontana.

 

* Chip Ganassi Racing is switching to Chevy power for the 2014 season and rumor has it Andretti will switch to Honda.

 

* Tony Kanaan has signed a multi-year deal with Chip Ganassi for the fourth Ganassi car.

 

* Tony Kanaan and Scott Dixon will both be going for 250,000 dollar bonus from the Fuzzys Triple Crown at Fontana

 

*  Sebastian Bourdais has signed with KV Racing for 2014 and Simona DeSilvestro could be headed to another team.

 

*  Carlos Munoz will be filling in for E.J. Viso for the season finale.

 

*  In addition to the Indycar Championship being decided between Helio Castroneves and Scott Dixon,  The Indy Lights Champion will be crowned.  Will it be Sage Karam or Gabby Chaves???

 

 

 

 

Don't miss the MAVTV 500 Saturday on NBC Sports at 8:00 EST.

 

Qualifying will air Friday at 7:00 EST on NBC Sports

Franchitti and Dixon at the Grocery Store?

Vrooms, Anyone?

 

 

Walking through a discount grocery today and who did we spy on a stack of cereal boxes but Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon.

 

There also was another Target Ganassi Driver and Indy 500 winner (2000) pictured, but since he doesn't race Indycars anymore we didn't buy his box of cereal.

 

Funny. 

Charlie Kimball Wins at Mid-Ohio!

*  Charlie Kimball became the fourth first time winner in the Indycar series this year with a great drive at the Honda Indycar 200.
(the record for first time winners in a season is 5 in 1965)

*  Honda swept the top three spots with Simon Pagenaud and Dario Franchitti joining Kimball on the podium.

*  It was the 5th win in a row for Ganassi Racing at Mid-Ohio.

*  Rookie drivers James Davison and Luca Fillipi finished 15th and 16th driving in their very first Indycar race.

*  Helio Castroneves stretched out his championship points lead to 31 points over Scott Dixon.

Three in a Row for Dixon!

* Dixon gets his 32nd Indycar win for seventh on the all time list behind AJ Foyt, 2 Andretti's (Mario & Michael) and 3 Unser's (Al, Bobby and Al Jr.)...not bad company.

*  Sebastien Bourdais continued his great weekend with another podium finish...and didn't break the trophy this time.

*  Helio Castroneves finished 2nd to keep a comfortable 29 point lead over Dixon who jumped to second place in the season standings with his recent wins.

*  Top Five.  Dixon, Helio, Bourdais, Franchitti, and EJ Viso

Scott Dixon fun facts

   Scott Dixon fun facts

* Has a total of 28 race wins and 20 poles in Indycar.

* Is the son of two dirt track racers.


* Wanted to be a race car driver since he was 5 but first climbed inside a car when he was 13.                                             

* His "secret obsession" is chocolate.

* He can't stand airport security lines, or slow people in fast lanes.

* His pets are two Maltese dogs, George and Arthur, named after two kings.

* His nicknames are "Iceman" and  "Dixie".

                                   

 

 

Here's the 2009 ticket showing Scott Dixons 2008 Indy 500 win

                                                             

News

In the Indycar News

 

 

THUMBS UP!

Pippa Mann, is going to try to make her 2nd Indy 500 this year in a car for Dale Coyne racing.  We always like seeing women drivers at Indianapolis so we hope she makes it!



Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon will be driving to give the Target Chip Ganassi racing team its 100th victory this weekend at the Sao Paulo Brazil Indy race.  Their first win came with Michael Andretti way back in 1994 in Australia.




THUMBS DOWN.

Could Indycars race on the old Formula 1 road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway?  We hope not.  Indy is a special place for the 500. So we agree with Robin Miller's article on this. 


Driver Oriol Servia will be without a ride after the Indianapolis 500 as his team Panther Dreyer Reinbold Racing cannot find enough sponsership and will be shutting down.