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The Associated Press
Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008
Chip Ganassi Racing picked up its 14th victory of the 2008 season last Saturday night when Scott Dixon won the Meijer Indy 300 at Kentucky Speedway.
That's a season record for CGR, which previously had 13 wins in 2007.
Dixon's victory was his sixth of the season, while IndyCar Series teammate Dan Wheldon has added two. Five other wins in 2008 have come from Ganassi's Grand-Am sports car team of Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, while NASCAR drivers Juan Pablo Montoya and Dario Franchitti joined those two in winning the Rolex 24 at Daytona in February.
The victory at Kentucky also tied the IndyCar Series record for wins in a season, set by Wheldon in 2005, while he was driving for Andretti Green Racing. Dixon is second on the Ganassi career victory list with 17, trailing only Pruett's 20.
Ganassi's teams have totaled 103 victories since 1994, with 38 of those wins coming since 2006.