In recent years, Chip Ganassi Racing has been the team to beat in the Indy500. The team's performance director discusses the strategy to have the best shot at winning again.
Chip Ganassi Racing has been the team to beat at the Indianapolis 500 during recent years. The squad’s performance director reveals his approach for the SpeedwayWhen you start with a new car, or with a new specification – like the manufacturer aerokits in 2015 or when we went back to a universal aerokit in 2018 – your focus is on driver comfort initially, and then you determine which are the areas for improving performance.
And things change every year. We can’t go back to Indy with the same set-ups we ran last May. There have been aero changes to the cars via the regulations for 2023, ways to unlock more downforce – possibly more for race set-up than qualifying. With the new pieces IndyCar has allowed us this year, based on the aero testing that we’ve seen, we think we have a pretty good idea how we want to run the car and where we think maximum performance will be, but on-track results can always be a little different from wind tunnel data.
Come qualifying, the order in which each entry makes its first run is decided by draw on Friday evening. So we could have one of our drivers running first in line, and one of them making his run 34th: that means their runs could be two and a half or three hours apart, so what worked for the first guy is nothing like what might work for the last guy.
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