. TonyKanaan to retire from IndyCar after this year's Indy500
until he passed the twin checkers at Indy this May, the 48-year-old Brazilian has declared that his 390Indy car start will be his last. The 2004 Indy car champion and 2013 Indy 500 winner retires with a total of 17 wins at the top of U.S. open-wheel racing, having also become a people’s champion.
Kanaan never reached that height again, but over the next six years with Andretti Green he three times finished the season in the top three and never fell outside the top six, and amassed 10 more wins. When his longtime friend and former teammate Dario Franchitti was injured in the penultimate race of 2013, it was Kanaan who got the nod to replace him at Chip Ganassi Racing, where he would remain for four seasons. Although Fontana 2014 would prove to be his only win for the team, he would accumulate 11 other podium finishes.
Kanaan’s efforts have not been entirely in Indy car over the past 25 years. As long ago as 1998 he made his Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona debut, sharing a Tom Gloy-run Ford Mustang with Mike Borkowski and Robbie Buhl, finishing third in the GT1 class.
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