"drivers Kyle Larson and Dylan Kwasniewski between late 2012 and 2014. Though Turner Scott was a two car Xfinity operation (at one point operating as many as five entries), the operation under Ganassi was reduced to a single-car entry running under Harry Scott's banner, HScott Motorsports with Chip Ganassi. In 2003, CGR Cup driver Casey Mears drove 14 races in the No. 19 Dodge for Braun Racing sponsored by CGR partner Target, with Braun forming a technical alliance with Ganassi. For 2004, the alliance continued, with Braun fielding the No. 32 TrimSpa Dodge for Ganassi development driver David Stremme. Late"
"Chip Ganassi Racing Chip Ganassi Racing With Felix Sabates, Inc., Doing business as Chip Ganassi Racing Teams or simply Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR), is a professional auto racing organization with teams competing in the IndyCar Series, NASCAR Monster Energy Cup and Xfinity Series, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and the FIA World Endurance Championship. It was founded in 1990 by businessman and former race driver Chip Ganassi, from the assets of Patrick Racing to compete in the CART IndyCar World Series. In 2001, Ganassi bought a majority stake in Sabates' Team SABCO NASCAR team, which had operated since 1989, marking"
"of the biggest races in the world. He is currently the owner and CEO of Chip Ganassi Racing which operates teams in the IndyCar Series, Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and in the World Endurance Championship. Overall, he runs 14 cars with 18 drivers across six different touring series. Ganassi attended the Bob Bondurant Driving School in 1977. He won his first auto race in a Formula Ford at the age of 18. He began his CART (Champ Car) racing career in 1982 upon graduating from Duquesne. Though a broken camshaft kept him from completing his first"
"to change the retail giant's sporting sponsorships. For 2018, Ganassi would downsize to two cars, with Kimball and Chilton taking their sponsorship over to Carlin due to team's cost-efficiency. Scott Dixon remains in the No. 9 with sponsorship from PNC Bank. In addition, Ganassi signed 2017 Indycar Rookie of the Year Ed Jones to drive the No. 10 car in 2018, with sponsorship from NTT Data, replacing Tony Kanaan. On December 20, 2006, Chip Ganassi Racing announced that it would field an Indy Lights team for the first time in 2007, with drivers Chris Festa and Pablo Pérez. Perez was"
"Chip Ganassi Racing banner in FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) competition, delivering two wins and a 2nd-place finish at Le Mans. 2018 – Multimatic Motorsports continued to supply Mustang GT4 cars to teams competing globally in the GT4-class while Multimatic Motorsports Europe again fielded a two-car Ford GT team under the Ford Chip Ganassi Racing banner in FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) competition. Billy Johnson, Scott Maxwell, Stefan Mücke, Olivier Pla, Andy Priaulx, Harry Tincknell Greg Biffle, Sébastien Bourdais, David Brabham, Kurt Busch, Patrick Dempsey, Pipo Derani, Milka Duno, David Empringham, John Farano, Joe Foster, Marino Franchitti, John Gaw, John"
"of certain major MLS platform. Target also announced a $14 million commitment to local youth soccer through two new national initiatives—an $8 million local soccer grant program, and a $6 million partnership with the U.S. Soccer Foundation to build 100 new soccer play spaces by 2020. Target is the official sponsor of 2017 & 2018 MLS All Star Games. Target was a long-time sponsor of the IndyCar and NASCAR racing teams of Chip Ganassi Racing. Target's relationship with Ganassi in IndyCar go back to 1990 when it began sponsoring Eddie Cheever. Some of their most famous drivers in the 1990s"
"2015, Wise qualified for the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Zell am See, Austria. Season still in progress<br> Josh Wise Joshua ""Josh"" Wise (born February 7, 1983) is a retired American professional stock car racing driver and currently an athletic trainer for Chip Ganassi Racing. He last competed full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 30 Chevrolet SS for The Motorsports Group, and part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 40 Toyota Camry for MBM Motorsports. Wise started racing quarter midgets in Southern California at Pomona Valley Quarter Midget Racing Association in 1991 when he"
"his fourth IndyCar Series Championship.[16] Ganassi was formerly a vice president of FRG Group, his father's organization involved in commercial real estate, transportation and other areas. In addition to his racing interests, he is also a former minority owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates major league baseball team. Ganassi is a strong supporter of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, to which his teams have donated over US$500,000. He graduated with a degree in finance from Duquesne University in 1982. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. He currently resides in the Pittsburgh suburb of Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania."
"Andre Agassi Andre Kirk Agassi ( ; born April 29, 1970) is an American retired professional tennis player and former world No. 1 who was one of the sport's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the greatest service returner ever to play the game and was described by the BBC upon his retirement as ""perhaps the biggest worldwide star in the sport's history"". As a result, he is credited for helping to revive the"
"and Chastain Motorsports. American Dream Motorsports entered a Panoz in the 2008 Indy 500 for Phil Giebler, but he crashed in practice. In December 2008, Panoz announced their withdrawal from the IndyCar Series due to the Panoz focusing on sports car program. G-Force Technologies G-Force Technologies (formerly Chip Ganassi Racing Ltd.) was an American racing car manufacturer originally formed by Americans Chip Ganassi and Ken Anderson in 1991. Ganassi would leave the company early on and the company was renamed G Force Precision Engineering. The company built successful cars in the Indy Racing League and 24 Hours of Le Mans."
"popularity of tennis during the 1990s. In singles tennis, Agassi is an eight-time Grand Slam champion and a 1996 Olympic gold medalist, as well as being a runner-up in seven other Grand Slam tournaments. During the Open Era, Agassi was the first male player to win four Australian Open titles, a record that was later surpassed by Novak Djokovic when he won his fifth title in 2015, and then by Roger Federer in 2017. Agassi is one of five male singles players to achieve the Career Grand Slam in the Open Era and one of eight in history, the first"
"Rossi (born 1979) has won 89 Grand Prix and 9 World Championship but he's the only motorcycle racer to have won their world titles in 4 classes: one each in the 125cc, 250cc and 500cc, and six in the MotoGP. Golf is played by over 9,000 registered players as of 2007. There are several male and female professional players, with notable current players including Costantino Rocca, the brothers Edoardo, and Francesco Molinari, and rising star Matteo Manassero. The most important tournament is the Italian Open. The Molinari brothers won the World Cup of Golf in 2009. Gymnastics is a popular"
"of two to achieve the Career Golden Slam (Career Grand Slam and Olympic Gold Medal, the other being Rafael Nadal), and the only man to win the Career Golden Slam and the ATP Tour World Championships: a distinction dubbed as a ""Career Super Slam"" by ""Sports Illustrated"". Agassi was the first male player to win all four Grand Slam tournaments on three different surfaces (hard, clay and grass), and the last American male to win both the French Open (in 1999) and the Australian Open (in 2003). He also won 17 ATP Masters Series titles and was part of the"
"throughout was between and the track temperature ranged from ; conditions were expected to remain consistent throughout the race, but a 70% chance of rain was forecast for Sunday. Chip Ganassi Racing founder and owner Chip Ganassi waved the green flag at 14:40 Eastern Standard Time () to start the proceedings. Fifty cars were due to take the start, but Robert Renauer spun on cold tyres and heavily damaged the left-hand quarter of the No. 58 Wright Motorsports car when he hit the turn five inside wall during the first formation lap. He was able to recover the car back"
"#69 at 3:51.514 <br>2016 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas: Olivier Pla at in #66 2:05.244 <br>2016 6 Hours of Fuji: Harry Tincknell in #67 at 1:38.575 <br>2017 6 Hours of Silverstone: Andy Priaulx in #67 at 1:57.416 <br>2017 6 Hours of Shanghai: Olivier Pla in #66 at 2:02.154 <br> <br> Ganassi expressed plans to start a team in the AMA Supercross Championship, but in late 2014, Ganassi attended the Global RallyCross Championship's season-ending race in Las Vegas, and as a result, expressed interest in fielding a GRC team. On March 18, 2015, Ganassi announced the creation of a"
"The team is currently building a new headquarters in St. Augustine. Lagasse Jr. is a former member of Chip Ganassi Racing's driver development program. He has also driven in a total of 14 ARCA (Auto Racing Club of America) races in 2006, 2007, 2008 for Cunningham Motorsports and Venturini Motorsports, winning twice – Kansas and Chicagoland Speedway. In 2003 and 2004, besides graduating from college with honors, he was racing dirt cars and competed on a limited schedule in the ASA National Touring Series. In just 12 starts Lagasse racked up 8 Top 10, 5 Top 5 and a win"
"1992 to 2002 before moving into the Indy Racing League full-time. They had run one IRL entry for former motocross racer Jeff Ward in 2002, in which Ward won one race at Texas in one of the closest finishes in IRL history. In their prime in CART, driving for Ganassi was viewed as the final proving ground for much of the top talent before moving onto Formula One. Chip Ganassi Racing initially entered the Indy Racing League (IRL) with Juan Pablo Montoya and Jimmy Vasser in the 2000 Indianapolis 500 won by rookie Montoya. In 2001 they returned to Indy"
"include Michael Andretti, Bryan Herta, and Arie Luyendyk. In the late 1990s, Target Chip Ganassi Racing had a four-year run of winning championships in CART, winning 1996 with Jimmy Vasser, 1997 and 1998 with Alex Zanardi, and 1999 with Juan Pablo Montoya. Ganassi won their first Indianapolis 500 in 2000. The team moved full-time into the rival Indy Racing League in 2003, and won in its first year of full-time competition, with Scott Dixon. Dixon won the championship again in 2008. The 2009 season marked the 20th anniversary of the Target race program. Franchitti won his second career IndyCar championship,"
"Andre Agassi. From 2011 to 2016, several other Grand Slam champions and former World No. 1's have played at the Garden. In 2013, the BNP Paribas Showdown event was expanded and began to held in Hong Kong for the first time. That event was also played in 2014. In 2014, the Showdown expanded from New York and Hong Kong and was played in London. The 2017 BNP Paribas Showdown featured a team format for the first time in the event's history. It also featured mixed doubles as an official event for the first time. Team World, captained by Lleyton Hewitt,"
"Olympic Games in Athens, simultaneously breaking the world record in the 4x100 freestyle relay. Penny Heyns won Olympic Gold in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. In golf, Gary Player is generally regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time, having won the Career Grand Slam, one of five golfers to have done so. Other South African golfers to have won major tournaments include Bobby Locke, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Trevor Immelman and Louis Oosthuizen. South Africa has also had a large influence in the Scouting movement, with many Scouting traditions and ceremonies coming from the experiences of Robert"
"title, CGR’s fourth consecutive championship.[3][4] 2000 - Montoya wins the team’s first Indianapolis 500, and Ganassi’s second as team owner.[3] 2001 – Ganassi launched his first NASCAR team with partner Felix Sabates and Sterling Marlin drove his Dodge Intrepid to victory lane at Michigan and Charlotte, then led the championship for most in 2002 before suffering a season-ending injury. 2003 – Wins IndyCar Series with a young Kiwi Scott Dixon, after he scored three wins. 2004 - Ganassi and Sabates entered Rolex Sports Car Series with a Daytona Prototype for Scott Pruett and Max Papis, who stormed to the title."
"Rick Mears, and Danny Sullivan. Meanwhile, Chip Ganassi took over the assets of the former Patrick Racing, and it became Chip Ganassi Racing. Eddie Cheever, who had spent the past decade in Formula One, and was the United States' lone F1 participant, switched to the CART series for 1990 and took the seat. Target was brought in as the new sponsor for the budding team, beginning one of the longest tenures for an Indy car sponsor (1990-2016) in the history of the sport. Bobby Rahal's KRACO team owned by Maurice Kranes merged with Rick Galles's and it became a two-car"
"Chip Ganassi Racing teammates from IndyCar Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan and NASCAR Jamie McMurray, and the team ultimately won the race. In 2016, Larson once again returned for the 24 Hours of Daytona in a Ford EcoBoost Daytona Prototype, only set to run for one race in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for Chip Ganassi Racing. The team consisted of the same drivers from the winning 2015 car, but ran into issues, with brake failures plaguing the team throughout the race. Larson made a cameo appearance as a limo driver in the 2017 film ""Logan Lucky"". Larson's mother is Japanese-American,"
"G-Force Technologies G-Force Technologies (formerly Chip Ganassi Racing Ltd.) was an American racing car manufacturer originally formed by Americans Chip Ganassi and Ken Anderson in 1991. Ganassi would leave the company early on and the company was renamed G Force Precision Engineering. The company built successful cars in the Indy Racing League and 24 Hours of Le Mans. G-Force race cars won 4 Indianapolis 500's, and 2 IRL Championships. G-Force was purchased by Élan Motorsport Technologies in 2002 and all manufacturing was moved to Elan's facilities in Braselton, GA. Ken Anderson would leave to form Falcon Cars with Michael Kranefuss"
"24 Hours of Le Mans, as a member of the Kouros Racing. One of his team mates for the event, Johnny Dumfries set the fastest lap of the race prior to handing the car over to Ganassi upon whom the gearbox broke. 1988-89 - Purchased an interest in Patrick Racing in 1988 – a team he had raced with before in 1983 and 1984 – the team saw Emerson Fittipaldi win the 1989 Indianapolis 500 and CART PPG Indy Car World Series. 1990 - Formed his own CART team, Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) with Target as the primary sponsor and"
"in August 2014. The Fund purchased a 4.6-acre plot in Henderson, Nevada to house the Somerset Academy of Las Vegas, which will relocate from its campus inside a church. By winning the 1999 French Open, Agassi completed a men's singles Career Grand Slam. He is the 5th of 8 male players in history (after Budge, Perry, Laver, Emerson and before Federer, Nadal and Djokovic) to achieve this. Andre Agassi Andre Kirk Agassi ( ; born April 29, 1970) is an American retired professional tennis player and former world No. 1 who was one of the sport's most dominant players from"
"every ballpark nationwide. His favorite baseball team is the Chicago Cubs. His younger brother Kyle Busch also competes full-time in the Cup Series, also, driving the No. 18 Camry. He is the 2015 Sprint Cup champion and runs part-time in both the Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series. Busch is a close friend of famous entrepreneur Felix Sabates, who co-owns Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR), and had a successful racing team SABCO Racing. In 2012 when Busch went to drive for Phoenix Racing (a CGR ally), he co-credited Sabates as having helped him convince James Finch to hire him. On"
"a young woman in St Kilda. Barassi, dining with friends, saw a woman punched to the ground around 12.30 am. Since retiring from football coaching, Barassi remains a prominent Australian rules football celebrity and a figure of popular culture. In 1996, he became an inaugural inductee in the Australian Football Hall of Fame, one of few former greats to be bestowed the honour of the ""Legend"" category. He is also one of only three Australian rules footballers in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, alongside Leigh Matthews and Ted Whitten. He has also been involved in grassroots football development and"
"Felix Sabates Feliciano Sergio ""Félix"" Sabates, Jr. (born September 9, 1945) is a Cuban-born entrepreneur and philanthropist living in the United States. He is currently a partner in Chip Ganassi Racing teams, which fields teams in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (as Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates), IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, World Endurance Championship and the Verizon IndyCar Series. Sabates previously owned his own NASCAR team, SABCO Racing, until the end of the 2000 season when Chip Ganassi and Sabates became partners. Felix Sabates was born in Camagüey, Cuba, living there until the age of 15. Sabates is"
"Ganassi Racing. Zanardi officially signed a contract on 23 October 1995. The team's race engineer Mo Nunn advised Chip against signing him, as he believed Italian drivers were too prone to mistakes. He rapidly became one of the series' most popular drivers. He took the pole for his second race, although his first win didn't come until mid-season. In total he won three races in his rookie season and six pole positions, finishing third in the championship behind teammate Jimmy Vasser and Michael Andretti. He and Andretti were level on points but Andretti took second place by virtue of having"
"experience of a true top-level team, which had the then top engine supplier, Toyota. Dixon posted 12 top-ten finishes, including a second place at Denver. Chip Ganassi joined CART teams Penske and Andretti-Green Racing in 2003 to switch to the all-oval Indy Racing League. Dixon won the season opener at Homestead in Florida. A tangle with Tony Kanaan in Japan left Dixon with a shattered hand, but he recovered to take two more victories and win the championship at his first try. Along the way he also set a record with 343 consecutive laps led, the first time a driver"
"Penske chassis for 1989 as part of the deal). Ganassi officially took over the remaining assets of the team (including the 1989 Penske chassis), and renamed it Chip Ganassi Racing. He signed former Formula One driver Eddie Cheever and raced full-time in the IndyCar World series with Target as primary sponsor. In 1992 Ganassi expanded to a two-car effort for the Indy 500, adding Arie Luyendyk for the Indy-only entry. Later Ganassi debuted rookie Robby Gordon in selected events. For 1993, Luyendyk replaced Cheever full-time. Luyendyk and won the pole position for the Indy 500 and finished second to Fittipaldi,"
"reports, Sabates philandered during his marriage and moved in with his mistress while his wife was in the hospital. His daughter Mimi is engaged to former NHRA driver Doug Herbert. On August 2, 2014, Sabates' 18-year-old grandson Feliciano ""Chany Boy"" Sabates IV was fatally shot at a party in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Felix Sabates Feliciano Sergio ""Félix"" Sabates, Jr. (born September 9, 1945) is a Cuban-born entrepreneur and philanthropist living in the United States. He is currently a partner in Chip Ganassi Racing teams, which fields teams in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (as Chip Ganassi Racing with"