Veteran team boss Chip Ganassi has strongly responded to recent comments shared by rival owner Michael Andretti regarding the proposed charter system for the IndyCar Series.
The charter system has been a major talking point – and a divisive one – throughout the entirety of the IndyCar offseason, which reaching a boiling point on the first day of the season on Friday ahead of this weekend’s Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. “I think it's healthy for 10 owners to have 10 different things they want,” Ganassi told a small group of reporters, including Motorsport.com.
'Anybody that can run the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with no fans in the stands, he's got my vote,” Ganssi said, noting the 2020 edition of the Indianapolis 500 run in August. “I'm okay with that. He coughed up the money to buy the place and he coughed it up during COVID, kept the series going and kept it running. I'm sorry, but I'm going to give him a pass for a couple years. Let him get back on his feet. 'I don't want to forget about COVID so quickly.
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