Chip Ganassi’s Net Worth, Biography, Fact, Career, Awards and Life Story
When Ganassi was 18 years old, he won his first auto race while driving a Formula Ford. In 1982, he began his Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) career, and a broken camshaft prevented him from finishing his first race, but he did qualify with fastest speed at 197 miles per hour. Chip competed in the Indianapolis 500 every year from 1982 to 1986, and he finished in the top 10 in 1983’s race. That year he was voted Most Improved Driver, and he was ranked #9 in the CART standings.
In 1984, Ganassi’s full-time racing career ended when he was involved in a crash with Al Unser, Jr. at the Michigan International Speedway. After Chip’s car hit the Armco barrier, it tumbled a few times and ended up breaking apart. Ganassi suffered “swelling of the brain, cuts and bruises and a broken bone in the right hand … [and] was unconscious for 12 to 14 hours.” Chip said of the experience, “I was out of the car for six months, and it gave me a different perspective of what it meant to be in the car. I had been in the car for so long that I didn’t know what it was like to be out of it.” He competed in approximately 30 races after the crash.
