There’s no doubt about it, Chip Ganassi knows how to win races. In Indy cars and sports cars, his teams are the best in the business. But in the racing series that truly matters, the one that dominates the auto racing landscape in America – NASCAR – Ganassi’s race teams can’t get it right.

On Sunday, when Ganassi’s driver Scott Dixon won the 92nd Indianapolis 500 in dominating fashion, starting the race from the pole and leading a race-high 115 of 200 laps, his NASCAR teams at the Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway were being considered also-rans.

For any other team owner, this might be an embarrassing situation.

Not for Ganassi. He instead prefers to bask in the glow of a second Indy 500 win, insisting that his NASCAR program is headed in the right direction, despite recent headlines that give the impression that it is drifting aimlessly.

The charismatic team owner’s assessment comes amid the recent firing of Jimmy Elledge, one of his NASCAR program’s long-standing crew chiefs, criticism about the teams’ direction from his marquee driver Juan Pablo Montoya, flat performances from supposed rising star Reed Sorenson and the shaky conversion of 2007 Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti from Indy cars to stock cars.

No one can question Ganassi’s record as a team owner in Indy car racing. It is remarkable. His CART teams in the 1990s were unmatched in open wheel racing, scoring four straight championships from 1996-1999. He then became the first team owner to break ranks with CART and race in the rival IRL in 2000 when he entered Montoya in the Indianapolis 500.

His team dominated this year’s Indy 500 in much the same fashion they did in 2000. Yet, Ganassi’s teams have stumbled in the most important racing series of all, and have set the standard for mediocrity.

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