Ganassi leads a Dodge charge and continues his racing roll

Chip Ganassi Racing has six wins in the last thirty days.  Between Nextel Cup, the Busch Series, the IRL and Grand Am Sports Car Series, Chip is livin' large.

Though there were no  Ganassi  race wins (unless I missed something) Saturday may have been the biggest day yet.

Juan Pablo Montoya, driving the #42 Havoline Charger came second in qualifying for the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard.   As the only man here who has won the Indy 500, Juan had outside pressure and expectations that exceed common sense. 

Topping that though, was the pole winning run by last week's Busch Series winner, Reed Sorenson in Ganassi's Target #41 Dodge.  Reed's run was early and it was expected that cooling track temps would allow later qualifiers to bump him off pole.  Didn't happen.  It became obvious fairly early on that Sorenson was going to be tough to top. Only four drivers came within a second of his time.

Dodges have five of the top six starting positions, with Dale Earnhardt Jr. the only non-Dodge up front.  People smarter than me say the Chargers don't handle well in traffic.  People, after a few laps there isn't much traffic at Indy.  It gets stretched out until NASCAR wants to tighten it up, usually.

Sorenson, Montoya, Newman and Kurt Busch wouldn't be a bad perfecta.  If I were a betting man.  How do you spell perfecta, anyway?

Picture credit: Beth Anne Heisler - ON PIT ROW

Comments

[Vroom]

Floyd's toys are polished up these days...that Chip's 1st name btw.

[CarMike]

I've made fun of Juan Pablo all year at work. Not because I thought he wasn't talented, but a coworker who thinks he's the next coming. With his performance this year on a new team--HE CAN DRIVE!!-- on a driver's course. Flat course or road. Let's see if Ganassi can get him the win on cookie cutter tracks. My guess is they can.