Will the Chip Ganassi Racing and Team Penske steamroller effect continue into another season of IndyCar racing? We're about to find out as the American open-wheel championship launches into another run that starts this weekend in Florida, heads west to California and Oregon, weaves throughout the Midwest, and ends its 18-round journey in September on a southern oval in Tennessee.
Using history as our guide, breaking the Ganassi and Penske stranglehold is about as likely as Red Bull and Max Verstappen being beaten to the next Formula One title. Every IndyCar champion since 2013 has hailed from the series' two titans, and if we wind the clock back to 2008, the combination of Ganassi and Penske have only been beaten once -- by Andretti Global in 2012 -- in the past 15 years.