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What's the deal with Ganassi?

Just caught one of Curt Cavin's notes from Sunday and he indicated that Scott Dixon referred to His Majesty, Dario, as his only teamate. Curious what's up in the Ganassi stable. He said Graham was a "pain in the (vertical permanent smile)" and that Rahal 'got what he deserved' when RHR spun him out late in the race. Interesting. I realize Scott and His Majesty have been together awhile now, but shouldn't they consider Graham and Charlie teamates? Perhaps not. Especially when Chip himself referred on air to Graham as "the 38" when he was being queried during the race about the odd-looking, perhaps fuel-saving restart attempt late. Somethng to the effect of 'I'll have to go over and talk to the people running the 38'. Didn't come off sounding like he was speaking as an owner of Graham's car, but as a rival. He may as well have been referring to a Penske entry. I may be a bit biased here. Not a big admirer of Chip. Used to not mind Franchitti, but his whining act is wearing thin. Happened to know a driver in the 90's who drove for Chip for awhile. He never had anything good to say about the guy. If I could borrow from Will Power's lexicon, the 2 of the Ganassi drivers as well as the boss are coming off as wankers.

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Permalink Reply by xorpheous on July 14, 2011 at 11:45am

Yeah, I think Will summed it up pretty well. As for Graham and Charlie, they do seem to be treated like the red-headed stepchildren, don't they? I think Chip likes the money coming from the two, but otherwise doesn't really care much about them so long as they stay away from his Target team (where his real money is).

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Permalink Reply by V. Kurt Bellman on July 19, 2011 at 3:18pm

Dario Judd has been a whiny little wanker all along. You just now seeing this? Good mornin'.

There's only one way to end crashfests because of inept underpowered cars - faster more powerful cars in which we don't give a damn about how close they are or are not to each other in performance. I'm ready. Is the sport? The more there is a car-based "pecking order", the less how much risk you want to take with somebody else's equipment matters. Man, this is easy.