10 Questions: Ganassi

1. What do you feel is your biggest strength?

Chip Ganassi: My biggest strength is that I'm here every day. I'm in this business every day.

2. What's the best advice you ever received and who was it from?

Ganassi: Roger Penske. I was getting into racing. I didn't know whether to buy a used car or a new car. Roger Penske said, "You know, Chip, whether you buy a used car or a new car, the hotel room costs the same."

3. What was your first car?

Ganassi: A Ford Econoline van.

4. Which athlete outside of racing do you most admire?

Ganassi: Tiger Woods.

5. What was your favorite 45 record growing up as a kid?

Ganassi: Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf.

6. Who has made the most impact on your life?

Ganassi: My father.

7. Who would you trade places with, and why?

Ganassi: Nobody.

8. If you needed to win one race, who would you put behind the wheel?

Ganassi: That puts me on the spot. Any one of my drivers.

9. What was your first job?

Ganassi: I was flipping hamburgers at my uncle's Dairy Queen in Pittsburgh.

10. What's the one thing that you do that drives your wife crazy?

Ganassi: You don't want to know, because I'm divorced. I've got a lot of things that make her crazy.