Chip Ganassi Autographs
Floyd "Chip" Ganassi Jr. (born May 24, 1958) is an American businessman, former racing driver, current team owner and member of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. He has been involved with the North American auto racing scene for over 30 years. He is owner and CEO of Chip Ganassi Racing which operates teams in the IndyCar Series, WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, FIA World Endurance Championship, and Extreme E. He is the only team owner in history to have won the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, the Brickyard 400, the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring and most recently the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Ganassi attended the Bob Bondurant Driving School in 1977 while a student at the Fox Chapel Area High School. He won his first auto race in a Formula Ford at the age of 18. He began his CART (Champ Car) racing career in 1982 upon graduating from Duquesne. Though a broken camshaft kept him from completing his first CART race at Phoenix, Ganassi qualified with the fastest speed, 197 mph, and competed in the Indianapolis 500 five times, with a best finish of 8th in 1983. He was voted the Most Improved Driver in 1983, and took 9th position in the CART standings. During that season, he took Patrick Racing’s Wildcat onto the podium twice, the first at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, then again at Laguna Seca. The following season, he would go on and finish a career best second in to 1984 Budweiser Grand Prix of Cleveland.
Ganassi's career was cut short by a huge crash at the 1984 Michigan 500, the race immediately following the Grand Prix of Cleveland. In one of many major accidents to occur in that year's race, Ganassi spun his car coming off one of the banked turns, and collided with Al Unser Jr.'s car. Ganassi's car then skated across the grass run-off area, slammed into the inside Armco barrier, tumbled multiple times and broke apart. Unser was uninjured, but Ganassi suffered serious head injuries. When CART doctor Stephen Olvey reached Ganassi he found him unconscious and unresponsive, and initially feared that Ganassi had been killed in the accident. When Olvey was about to start administering CPR, Ganassi resumed breathing. He was airlifted to the University of Michigan Hospital. After a time he regained consciousness, and while initially suffered short term memory loss he would go on to feel he had made a full recovery. Ganassi never returned to driving full-time after the accident, although briefly drove in both CART and IMSA in 1986. Ganassi achieved his top sportscar result in the 1986 Kodak Copies 500 at Watkins Glen that taking the Camel Light class victory, with his race partner, Bob Earl (7th overall). He also recorded a seventh-place finish a month early in the Löwenbräu Classic, at Road America, assisted by David Sears. Both times driving for Spice Engineering, in one for their Spice-Pontiac SE86CL. In what was to be his last international race outing, Ganassi was entered into the 1987 24 Hours of Le Mans, as a member of the Kouros Racing. One of his teammates for the event, Johnny Dumfries set the fastest lap of the race prior to handing the car over to Ganassi upon whom the gearbox broke.
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Current items with a signature of Chip Ganassi
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Traded items with a signature of Chip Ganassi
The most expensive item with a signature of Chip Ganassi (Marcus Armstrong Signed Auto Chrome Chip Ganassi 2024 Trading Card IndyCar) was sold in April 2024 for $7,499.00 while the cheapest item (JIMMY SPENCER ***AUTOGRAPHED BY CHIP GANASSI*** HERO CARD #W4) found a new owner for $0.99 in February 2020. The month with the most items sold (7) was June 2025 with an average selling price of $20.99 for an autographed item of Chip Ganassi. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in August 2024 with $222.96 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.00 was July 2014. In average, an autographed item from Chip Ganassi is worth $14.99.
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Latest News about Chip Ganassi
Ganassi exodus embodies IndyCar's silliest of silly seasons (07/20/2023): Chip Ganassi Racing is dominating IndyCar, and yet the team faces the prospect of replacing three of four drivers in an unprecedented silly season. 
Sato joins Ganassi to race ovals only in IndyCar (01/17/2023): Takuma Sato, two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, announced Tuesday he will scale down his IndyCar races to ovals only as he moves to Chip Ganassi Racing to share the No. 11 Honda with rookie Marcus Armstrong. F2's Armstrong to help fill Johnson's Indycar seat (12/02/2022): Marcus Armstrong has been named the fourth IndyCar driver in the Chip Ganassi Racing lineup and will pilot the No. 11 next season on road and street courses. McLaren signs Kanaan from Ganassi for Indy 500 (11/01/2022): Arrow McLaren SP has signed driver Tony Kanaan and a sponsor away from Chip Ganassi Racing ahead of the next Indianapolis 500. Palou stays in No. 10 after peace found with CGR (09/14/2022): Alex Palou will remain with Chip Ganassi Racing next season in an agreement that allows the one-time IndyCar champion to test Formula One with McLaren, and Felix Rosenqvist will keep his seat in a pair of resolutions to a wild silly season.
Older News Stories about Chip Ganassi
IndyCar's Palou vows he'll be at McLaren in 2023 (07/2022): IndyCar champion Alex Palou, who has contracts signed with two different race teams for 2023 and is being sued by Chip Ganassi Racing, says he will be a McLaren driver next year. Ganassi helps launch Women in Motorsports effort (03/2022): Chip Ganassi Racing and PNC Bank marked International Women's Day with the launch of a campaign to drive gender equality in motorsports. Ganassi gets 'great offer,' sells NASCAR team (06/2021): Chip Ganassi, who fields two cars in the Cup Series, said Wednesday that he has sold his entire NASCAR team to Justin Marks, owner of Trackhouse Racing. F1's Magnussen to race IMSA series for Ganassi (12/2020): Kevin Magnussen, who drives for Haas in Formula One, will move to the IMSA sports car series in 2021 for Chip Ganassi Racing. Ganassi to return to IMSA racing with Cadillac (11/2020): Chip Ganassi Racing will return to IMSA sports car competition next season with Cadillac in the Daytona Prototype international class. Rosenqvist, Palou land new IndyCar rides for '21 (10/2020): Felix Rosenqvist was hired by Arrow McLaren SP for the 2021 IndyCar season Thursday, and rookie Alex Palou moved to Chip Ganassi Racing to fill Rosenqvist's seat. Larson gets 1st Outlaws win since NASCAR firing (05/2020): Kyle Larson, who lost his ride with Chip Ganassi Racing last month, edged Brent Marks by 0.794 seconds to win the World of Outlaws race Saturday night. Ericsson lands hot chocolate sponsor for Ganassi (01/2020): Huski Chocolate, a Swedish company that already does business in Formula One with McLaren and with the Millwall soccer club, will be the primary sponsor for Marcus Ericsson at Chip Ganassi Racing.
