Target Chip Ganassi Racing announced that IndyCar Series veteran Jaques
Lazier to drive the No.10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Toyota-powered
Panoz in the Firestone Indy 400 on July 31 at Michigan International
Speedway.
source: indycar.com by indycar.com staff "We were very glad that a driver of Jaques Lazier's caliber was available to the Target team this weekend," Target Chip Ganassi Racing owner Chip Ganassi said. "We look forward to working with him on a race-to-race basis and getting him to the front." Lazier, who has made 45 career IndyCar Series starts, finished 16th in the Indianapolis 500 in May. Lazier, who won in the series at Chicagoland Speedway in 2001, is the younger brother of 2000 IndyCar Series champion and 1996 Indianapolis 500 winner Buddy Lazier, who also entered in this weekend's event. In the past three seasons, the brothers have competed together in the Indianapolis 500 (Jaques as Robby Gordon's relief driver in 2004) and at Kansas and Nazareth speedways in 2003. "Being given the chance to drive for Target Chip Ganassi Racing is obviously a dream come true," Lazier said. "Since the first day they joined the Indy Racing League, it was a team you looked at with a degree of envy. I'd always wanted to be part of a team like this, and I feel like the first 45 races of my career have been the testing ground for this kind of opportunity. "It's not often that I have been in a situation to be able to share information with teammates and be part of something bigger. I look forward to being a team player and hopefully I can help ignite a spark to get momentum back on the team's side. I hope to make the best of this chance the team has given me here at Michigan."
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