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CUP: Ganassi In The Middle Of Trophy Splash
Team owner Chip Ganassi's drivers won both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 this year...
Daytona 500 and Indy 500 winning team owner Chip Ganassi poses with Sprint Cup driver Jamie McMurray (Left) and IndyCar Series driver Dario Franchitti (Right) at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Photo: Getty Images)
It’s a super-slick photograph, one you won’t see very often despite the millions that professional photographers shoot at speedways every year.
Posed left to right there on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway frontstretch the day after the Indianapolis 500 are the Harley J. Earl trophy, Jamie McMurray, Chip Ganassi, Dario Franchitti and the Borg-Warner Trophy.
Ganassi, a team owner who plays in all sorts of motorsports, won both trophies in one year – the first to do so. McMurray won the Daytona 500 and the Earl trophy; Franchitti won the Indy 500 and the Borg-Warner trophy.
But how did all that come together the morning after the Indy 500? Shouldn’t McMurray have been sleeping peacefully in Charlotte after racing most of the night in the Coca-Cola 600? Shouldn’t the huge Earl trophy have been at home in Daytona Beach?
Turns out the Earl trophy was already in the house.
Daytona International Speedway had shipped it to Indy the week of the 500 so that it could be displayed in the track’s museum (perhaps the best in motorsports) alongside the Borg-Warner trophy.
On the morning after the Indy 500 and the Coke 600, McMurray flew to Indianapolis to surprise Ganassi at the traditional champion’s photo shoot at the speedway. The Earl trophy was delivered trackside, and the fun began.
Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEEDtv.com and has been covering motorsports for 28 years. He has written several books on NASCAR, including "NASCAR: The Definitive History of America's Sport" and "Then Tony Said To Junior: The Best NASCAR Stories Ever Told". He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.
Posed left to right there on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway frontstretch the day after the Indianapolis 500 are the Harley J. Earl trophy, Jamie McMurray, Chip Ganassi, Dario Franchitti and the Borg-Warner Trophy.
Ganassi, a team owner who plays in all sorts of motorsports, won both trophies in one year – the first to do so. McMurray won the Daytona 500 and the Earl trophy; Franchitti won the Indy 500 and the Borg-Warner trophy.
But how did all that come together the morning after the Indy 500? Shouldn’t McMurray have been sleeping peacefully in Charlotte after racing most of the night in the Coca-Cola 600? Shouldn’t the huge Earl trophy have been at home in Daytona Beach?
Turns out the Earl trophy was already in the house.
Daytona International Speedway had shipped it to Indy the week of the 500 so that it could be displayed in the track’s museum (perhaps the best in motorsports) alongside the Borg-Warner trophy.
On the morning after the Indy 500 and the Coke 600, McMurray flew to Indianapolis to surprise Ganassi at the traditional champion’s photo shoot at the speedway. The Earl trophy was delivered trackside, and the fun began.
Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEEDtv.com and has been covering motorsports for 28 years. He has written several books on NASCAR, including "NASCAR: The Definitive History of America's Sport" and "Then Tony Said To Junior: The Best NASCAR Stories Ever Told". He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.
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