Ganassi to use auctioned car

UPDATE The total crash dollars for 2005 are interesting. We estimate that Chip Ganassi by himself has more damage in total dollars this year in the IRL than the complete Champ Car Series. If you take the Ganassi team's 25 wrecks and average the damage at $175,000, and we know that there have been more large ones like the one today at near $500,000, he would have over $4,000,000, which is what the Champ Car World Series has in total this year according to our estimates! Mark C. 09/11/05 Good news for Chip Ganassi – he bought one of Mo Nunn's Panoz race cars at the auction for $125,000. After yet another car destroying wreck at Chicagoland Sunday that saw Ryan Briscoe's car explode in a fireball he better hurry to get it modified to fit a Toyota engine because he's running out of cars. We never saw one team owner lose so many cars in one year. He must be the Panoz factory's best customer.