IndyCar Buy or Sell: Scott Dixon the lone Chip Ganassi Racing returnee in 2018?

Chip Ganassi Racing’s IndyCar stable is currently a massive pile of dysfunction. Will Scott Dixon be the lone returnee of the team’s current four drivers in 2018?

Chip Ganassi Racing has been arguably IndyCar‘s most successful team in recent years, winning six of the last nine championships, including four in a row from 2008 to 2011. However, things have really begun to unravel there this season thanks to an overall lack of success by drivers not named Scott Dixon.

It has been three years since a Chip Ganassi Racing driver not named Scott Dixon won an IndyCar race. That happened when Tony Kanaan won at Fontana in the end of August of 2014. Charlie Kimball hasn’t won a race in over four years, and Max Chilton has never finished higher than 4th place in a race. So will Dixon be the only one of the team’s four current drivers who returns to the team next season?

Scott Dixon the lone Chip Ganassi Racing returnee in 2018: BUY

Max Chilton and Tony Kanaan, who have not had great seasons in 2017, are pretty much out the door already. At Pocono, the team parked Chilton in the middle of the race since they saw no opportunity for him to make up positions. Then at Gateway, the team did the same thing with Kanaan, who actually already has a two-year deal set up with another team, although that team has not yet been revealed.

That just isn’t something teams do with drivers they expect to have back in future seasons. The fact that this started happening at the end of the 2017 season is telling, as it shows that Chip Ganassi Racing is looking ahead to 2018, and Chilton and Kanaan are not parts of that vision.