when Pato Outward He compared the strength of the McLaren Organization to others Indycar The network last month in Thermal, making a little Quip:
“Four Gannes are always at the forefront,” he said. “I know that there are now only two Ganassis and they are usually at the forefront, but the context is calculated.”
The SHIP Ganassi New Racing-Meyer-Meyer Racing racing can continue to grow. It can be shown at the end of this week in Long Beach’s grand prize race.
Indycar has two prominent alliances: Ganassi-SHnk’s relationship, which started this year after Shank has ended an alliance with Andretti Global, and the Penske-Aj Foyt Racing alliance that started in August 2023.
Each of these relationships has transformed Ganassi and Penske three -car programs into a possible five -car programs when it comes to sharing information. When Gansei moved from five cars to three cars this season (old warriors Scott Dixon and Alex Palo And the second year driver Kyffin Simpson Stay), some of the group that I worked with Marcus Armstrong He went with Armstrong – who is still contracted with Ganasi – to Shank.
Violet the newcomer David Malocas He has a Penske engineer for his car, and while he said he has a multi -year contract with FOYT, the prevailing hidden is that if he succeeds, the Penske driver may be in the future.
The Foyt-Penske relationship was a big point of discussion last May when both organizations were strong.
“We had good cars here in FOYT, and part of our alliance for us is that we have struggled on the road and the street [but] We were good in motorcycle race, “FOYT driver Santino Feruchi He said last May. “This is the place where Penske wanted a kind of forming some earth … It was a very useful relationship for us.”
This year’s Ganassi-SHnk’s relationship had the components to be strong because they were Felix Rosenkvist It was also previously driven by Ganassi, so both the SHNK drivers are familiar with Ganassi and the main employees.
“It is fully consistent with their race engineering, which I interact with more than others,” said Rosenkvist. “The essence of the main team is the same … I know most of them, so it looks very smooth.”
The largest feature can come in the test.
Meyer Shank drivers last month at Barber Motorsports Park and then Ganassi took the test in the Indianapolis Road course. Both the FOYT and Penske teams tested Barber, but then the FOYT teams only conducted the test in the Indianapolis Road.
“Certainly, it’s something we want to use,” said Rosenqvist about making sure that all tests are covered. “The fact that we can divide is the smart use of our test days. We do everything together, but if we can divide the test, this is a good way to go. We hope to learn something from them from Indy GP [test]”
It also made the Ganassi-Shank relationship for a comfortable relationship when it comes to Michael Shank. Palou and Dixon led to the Shank in Rolex 24 in DayTona with Dixon – a team teammate in the same car where Rosenqvist was one of the drivers.
Drivers have a good chemistry that adds to the engineering information share.
“It is useful to have a technical partnership where you can participate and you can speak,” Palo said. “It is a different team but the engineering side is very supported by CGR. So we are free to share data, information and everything.
Unfortunately, they had a terrible taste in the barber [where Rosenqvist crashed] So there was not much to learn. To be able to continue the relationship with Armstrong – I know if something for it, I can trust it and I can follow it and for Felix as well. “
Technical relationships are not rare in motorsport, and Ganasi was experienced with them Naskar.
“When you say a technical alliance, this is like saying,” I have a relationship with someone. “Gansei said:” You have a relationship with someone you may mean 1000 thing. “
“So the technical relationship is the same. It is not something of cookies priest. It is different for everyone. So I think Mike Shank is happy with it … it is going in both directions. The information does not flow throughout this way. We’ll see. Maybe we will be good or both bad.”
Gansei said this fait accompli, which indicates that a lot of information sometimes or a lot of cooperation is not always the best.
Andretti driver Kyle Kirkud He said that his team did not feel the loss of the alliance with Shank during the first two weeks of the season. He said when they divided the tests last year, it was difficult to make the information of the Mayer Shank car related to Andreiti drivers and drivers.
“I would like to say often, the presence of many cars under one umbrella of our confusion,” Kirkud said. “Although you have a lot of information from running many cars, they are sometimes very confusing, especially when you have many different dynamics among drivers how they want to get things.”
The key is to use additional data from another team if a driver from a different team is struggling.
“We don’t feel that we miss anything, the simple answer,” Kirkud said. “But at the same time, it is good to have this information, especially if you run out of information to look at it. But I don’t think this is the case at the present time.”
Bob Pockrass Nascar and Indycar cover for Fox SPORTS. He spent contracts for motorsport coverage, including more than 30 Ditona 500, with a difference in ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR SCENE and (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow it on Twitter @Bobukras.
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