Floyd Ganassi Jr. (born May 24, 1958) better known as Chip Ganassi, 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. More about Chip Ganassi
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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, however, in his next race his career was cut short by a huge crash at Michigan involving Al Unser Jr. In a race full of huge accidents, he spun his car coming off one of the banked turns, he then collected Unser Jr., his car then skated across the grass run-off area, slammed into the inside Armco barrier, his car tumbled multiple times and broke apart- although Unser Jr. was uninjured, Ganassi suffered serious head injuries. When CART doctor Stephen Olvey reached Ganassi he found him unconscious and unresponsive, and initially feared the driver might not have survived. 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. Following the accident he did not race for 9 months; he never raced full-time again.In total, we tracked 53 items since 01/09/2012. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of Chip Ganassi (Ford GT Le Mans Chip Ganassi Team art poster multi signed Le Mans WOW Bill Ford) was sold in December 2020 for £279.95 while the cheapest item (Juan Pablo Montoya HAND SIGNED #42 Target, Chip Ganassi Racing profile card 2012) found a new owner for £2.20 in June 2017. The month with the most items sold (4) was March 2022 with an average selling price of £19.17 for an autographed item of Chip Ganassi. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2020 with £249.95 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £2.20 was June 2017. In average, an autographed item from Chip Ganassi is worth £21.18.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Chip Ganassi were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
Item Title | Price | Store | |
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2021 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac DPi signed Petit Le Mans IMSA WTSC Hero Card | £17.44 | ||
2022 Chip Ganassi Racing #01 Cadillac signed Rolex 24 IMSA Hero Card DIXON PALOU | £24.44 | ||
2023 Kyffin Simpson signed HMD Chip Ganassi Racing Indy NXT RTI Hero Card | £7.87 | ||
2024 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac GTP signed Sebring IMSA WTSC Hero Card DIXON | £16.07 | ||
Chip Ganassi #24 signed autograph auto 1986 A&S Indy Racing Card PSA Slabbed | £43.36 | ||
Chip Ganassi #9 signed autograph 1985 PPG Indy A&S Racing Card PSA Slabbed | £35.56 | ||
Chip Ganassi Autograph PNC BANK CHIP GANASSI RACING HAT CAP BRAND NEW w/ Tag | £35.88 | ||
Chip Ganassi Racing SIGNED 2022 IMSA Photo Hero Card #01 Cadillac DPi Bourdais | £12.22 | ||
FORD GT CHIP GANASSI RACING - LE MANS 2018 - DRIVER POSTER / AUTOGRAPH CARD | £10.00 | ||
Juan Montoya signed 2000 Target Chip Ganassi Racing IndyCar Nazareth 8x10 photo | £29.69 |