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Danica Patrick Possibly at Target Chip Ganassi Racing?
Robin Miller is reporting that Danica's agents are secretly talking with Target Chip Ganassi Racing for a 3rd car for Danica Patrick in 2010. This would be wild and big.
I know AGR will not let Danica go that easy so it will be interesting to see what happens the next couple months. Danica's contract expires with AGR after this year and she is free to talk and negotiate with any team or series that she desires. Here is a link for the full article.. http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...e-for-ganassi/ |
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One perk of driving for Ganassi (and Penske as well) in Indycars is they can enter you in one-off NASCAR races if you desire. |
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Reading that article, it appears Alex Lloyd has left Ganassi. If dixon does go to Gil de Ferran's team then surely it would of made sense for Alex to be Dario's teammate next year. But oh well not any more by the looks of it. |
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Miller's previous rumor on Dixon did not take into account the fact that Dixon has two more years after this season on his contract with Ganassi...Unless De Ferran or Honda are going to buy out that contrct from Ganassi, Dixon isn't going anywhere anytime soon |
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There's an interesting report in Autosport this week about the Danica/NASCAR rumour, suggesting "she could look for an IndyCar team that could offer her the chance to try [NASCAR] out" (as in a progressive switch from one to the other). So to me that implied that he could be going to Ganassi. So I'm not surprised at this. It adds up
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Besides, I'd take Will any day over Danica if I wanted to run a 3rd car...I'll bet Penske would, too, after working with Will for 3 races this year... |
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Unless of course those rumours of Penske going to F1 with Nick Wirth are genuine and they're planning on taking a couple of their existing drivers over. Briscoe in particular has plenty of F1 testing experience
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A 3rd Ganassi car? Does that mean that Dixon and Franchitti both have long-term contracts?
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Dixon will have two more years on his after this season.
Dario usually does one-year contracts, but his current one may have been a carry-over from his Ganassi NASCAR contract...I'm not sure, but it is my understanding that he'll have to sing a new one to race in the IRL with Ganassi next year. |
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