Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s Dan Wheldon celebrated his 30th birthday in the best way possible for an IndyCar driver, by winning Sunday’s Iowa Corn 250 with a calculated gamble on fuel strategy, followed by a determined drive to the checkers.
Wheldon, who ran in the lead pack all day, was one of three front-runners who elected [...]

Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s (TCGR) Dan Wheldon celebrated his birthday in victory lane Sunday by winning his second race of the season at Iowa Speedway in the Iowa Corn Indy 250. Teammate and polesitter Scott Dixon finished fourth in the No.9 Commit Honda Dallara to extend his lead in the IndyCar Series championship race from [...]

Updated: Dan Wheldon has also pledged his winnings & Andretti Green Racing recently held an online auction that raised $10,000 for the American Red Cross.
Champion New Zealand driver Scott Dixon has pledged to donate any prizemoney he wins at Monday’s (NZ time) round of the United States Indycar Series to Iowa’s flood [...]

It may be Silly to Talk Silly Season this year… (more atindystar.com)Chip Ganassi said Dan Wheldon will remain Scott Dixon’s partner, and Roger Penske said a new contract is in the works for Helio Castroneves, whose deal expires at the end of the season.
“With Briscoe coming on, it really gives us a good 1-2 punch,” [...]

IndyCar Series driver Dan Wheldon suffered an injured right ankle in a single-car accident during practice Friday.
Friday’s accident happened when Wheldon’s No. 10 (Sweet Black Polaroid Scheme) Honda hit the outside wall coming out of Turn 4. The car slid down to the infield grass in front of pit road, then flipped over upside down [...]

Dr. Indy has been considering some of the scenarios that could play out for the 2009 IndyCar season regarding who will be in what ride, and I keep coming back to one key domino that needs to fall before all of the other rides fall in place. That domino is named Tony Stewart. [...]

Great Video complete with milk chugging.
Love the word association on Latin or Ballroom, Chip Ganassi and Controversy.
This is a follow-up to the front row video from last week. Girls Boxing, Mud Wrestling?
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Scott Dixon concluded a successful month of May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the pole sitter and winner of the 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 in the No.9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing (TCGR) Honda Dallara. Leading the most laps of the race (115), Dixon remained in the top-five throughout the entire 200-lap event. [...]

Dan Wheldon won, the first English victor since Graham Hill in 1966., Michael Andretti won as a car owner…What great stories.
BUT. They took the back seat to the birth of Danica-Mania.
Rookie Danica Patrick, who qualified fourth and finished fourth, became the first female driver to lead laps during the race and won [...]

Dixon edged Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Dan Wheldon, who turned in the second-fastest time trial for the May 25 race at an average 226.110 miles an hour.
Ryan Briscoe of Penske racing will join Dixon and Wheldon on the front row.
Helio Castroneves, Danica Patrick and Tony Kanaan make up the second row. Marco [...]

Last year, I was fortunate to get a great picture of the 2007 Indy 500 winner, Dario Franchitti. The 91st running of the Indy 500 was cut short due to rain.
This reduced the crowds that stuck around after the race and made it possible for me to get this shot.

Dario Franchitti, during [...]

Gets a kick out of it!!!
Dan Wheldon knows a thing or two about pace. Of course, the IndyCar Series standout has a completely different idea of the concept. Wheldon, the 2005 IndyCar Series champion who won at Kansas Speedway over the weekend and was in town to promote an upcoming race at Texas Motor Speedway, [...]

Highlight video for the RoadRunner Turbo Indy 300
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Almost a year to the day since he last visited Victory Circle, Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s Dan Wheldon took advantage of teammate Scott Dixon’s misfortune to win Sunday’s Road Runner Turbo Indy 300, his second consecutive victory at Kansas Speedway and his first IndyCar Series win since last year’s race here.
Dixon started from the pole [...]

The pits were closed, so Dan Wheldon, Tony Kanaan and others got to come into the pits and top off with fuel. Why???????? What is up with that? Why no penalty? Why was Dixon stuck in the back while the other we left up front? This needs to be explained.
I [...]