Scott Dixon has said he hopes that Chip Ganassi Racing returning to a two-car operation in 2018 will allow the team to return to the heights it enjoyed when he drove alongside Dario Franchitti at the team.Chip Ganassi Racing won five titles between 2008 and 2013, but since Franchitti's forced retirement at the end of '13, Dixon feels he hasn't been able to collaborate with his team mates as well as he did with the Scot.
"I think the few years previous with my team mates we struggled a lot with correlation and didn’t generally like the same car so that made it difficult," he said. "This year I’m obviously looking for a similar scenario of what Dario and I had in those years previous where we liked very similar things."
"It was easy to develop the car and we could head in one direction," he added. "Inner-team competition is the best competition you can have and you’ve got to drive each other."
"You want someone that’s good in the fuel-saving races, short tracks,
road and street courses, you’re looking for the best combination.
Hopefully next year we can have that, work well together and push
each other to hopefully win another championship." Next year Dixon will team up with Ed Jones as part of a scaled-back Ganassi effort, and the Kiwi feels losing two cars from the team will bring benefits.
"It’s always a tough situation [with four cars], now there’s less pieces to the puzzle so that simplifies things and hopefully myself and the new team mate can work well together and have a similar style," he said.
"With fewer cars you can typically attack it quicker and have quicker results with not having to supply four cars," Dixon added.
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