Dixon and Wheldon Third and Fourth in Caution-filled Richmond

1. Tony Kanaan, No.11 Honda Dallara
2. Helio Castroneves, No.3 Honda Dallara

RICHMOND, Va. (June 29, 2008)-Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon started fourth and sixth and survived 102 caution laps to finish third and fourth, respectively in the 300-lap SunTrust Indy Challenge at Richmond.

Dixon’s podium finish for the No.9 team was the seventh consecutive top-five finish and eighth top-five finish of the season. Wheldon had a strong run but an electrical gremlin shut down the No.10 Target car on the final lap as he coasted to the finish line.

Dixon managed to get around Wheldon on the final lap as a result to finish third. Wheldon ran all 300 laps of the event and continues to be the only driver in the series to complete every lap of the season.

With the result, Dixon remains the IndyCar Series championship leader (351 to 308) over Castroneves, with Wheldon nine points back of Castroneves in third. Up next for the Target team is Watkins Glen International Sunday, July 6^th (3:30 p.m. EDT, ABC) where Dixon is the three-time defending winner of the event.

TCGR Quoteboard:

Scott Dixon: "It was a tough night. We had a very good car. Once again it was very tough to pass here. Even when the tires got old it was very hard to get close to people. If we were out front, I think we had a car to win. Kanaan definitely looked pretty strong tonight but I think the Target car still had a chance."

Dan Wheldon: "I was trying to be aggressive while trying to finish the race and it was difficult behind the other cars. We knew there would be more than a few wrecks tonight, and that proved to be the case. The car shut off on the last lap for some reason and that's not what we need when we're trying to close the point gap."

About Chip Ganassi Racing Teams, Inc.

With nine wins already in 2008, the team continues to add to its tally of 98 trips to victory lane. Chip Ganassi created his own one-car IndyCar team in 1990 and established a partnership with a new sponsor, Target. Today, his teams include two IRL IndyCars, and along with Felix Sabates he has three cars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, two entries in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and a Daytona Prototype in the world of Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series racing. Ganassi’s IndyCar teams have amassed five Championships and 61 wins since 1994; his NASCAR teams have 12 wins and two Rookie-of-the-Year titles; and the Grand American team has won two Rolex Series Daytona Prototype Championships and are the three-time defending Champions of the Rolex 24 At Daytona. Chip Ganassi Racing operates out of state-of-the-art race shop facilities in Indianapolis, Ind., and Concord, N.C., with a corporate office in Pittsburgh, Pa.