MILEPOSTS: Ganassi's six-gun of wins

It was the "Chip Slam" in 2010 when his Grand-Am Rolex Series sportscar team won the Rolex 24 At Daytona, Jamie McMurray won the Daytona 500, Dario Franchitti won the Indy 500, and McMurray completed the dream season by claiming the Brickyard 400, but what do you call Chip Ganassi Racing's unparalleled accomplishments this year? The "Stupendous Six?" "Six in '16?"

With Kyle Larson's breakthrough NASCAR Sprint Cup win last weekend, Ganassi completed another amazing feat by recording wins in six different championships in 2016.

Take Larson's Cup victory, add Scott Dixon's win in the Verizon IndyCar Series, multiple wins by the Ford Chip Ganassi Racing IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship program, the history-making debut win for the same team at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which is part of the FIA World Endurance Championship, wins by Larson and Justin Marks in Ganassi's NASCAR Xfinity entry, and Steve Arpin's win in the Ganassi Red Bull Global RallyCross machine, and the six represent a diverse first in motor racing.

"We're glad to do that," Ganassi told RACER. "This was the crowning one by winning in Cup with Larson. It's just a testament to the team and the people I get to work with. The business of racing is a lot of travel and hard work; it isn't the glamorous life depicted in the movie Grand Prix all the time. But the people you work with, the sponsors who make it possible; that's what makes it worthwhile."

From those six series, CGR stands a reasonable chance to win championships in IndyCar (Tony Kanaan is third in points while Dixon is sixth), in IMSA (Ryan Briscoe and Richard Westbrook are second in the GT Le Mans standings), in the GRC (Arpin holds third), and in the FIA WEC GTE-Pro category (Stefan Mucke and Olivier Pla lead the class).

And with Larson now qualified for the Sprint Cup Chase and McMurray close to making the field of 16 contenders for NASCAR's biggest prize, some major hardware could be headed Chip's way by the end of the season. With or without the championships, 2016 is destined to close with another record-setting year for one of America's most prolific racing teams.

Click on the thumbnails below for larger images of CGR's wide-ranging 2016 wins.

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