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Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Makes Changes to Strengthen NASCAR Sprint Cup Teams

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Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Makes Changes to Strengthen
NASCAR Sprint Cup Teams

Crew Chiefs Donnie Wingo and Jimmy Elledge Change Positions on No. 41,
No. 42 NSCS Entries

CONCORD, N.C. (April 15, 2008)-Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates
(CGRFS) announced today that NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) crew chiefs
Donnie Wingo and Jimmy Elledge will change roles, with Wingo assuming
duties on the No. 41 Target Dodge driven by Reed Sorenson and Elledge on
the No. 42 Texaco/Havoline/Juicy Fruit (r) Dodge driven by Juan Pablo
Montoya, respectively. 

"I really feel that these changes can be instrumental in moving Chip
Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates to the next level," said Team Owner
Chip Ganassi.  "I have a lot of respect for both Donnie and Jimmy and
the jobs that they do and they both agree that this move can be very
beneficial to the entire organization.  I have said all along that I
believe us to be a championship organization and that Felix and I will
do whatever we can to make us better. This is toward that end."

Wingo will call his first race for the No. 41 team with Sorenson, and
Elledge with the No.42 team and Montoya, following the NSCS off weekend
in Round 9 of the season at Talladega Superspeedway on April 27 (FOX,
1:30 pm EDT).

About Chip Ganassi Racing Teams, Inc.
With 3 wins already in 2008, the team continues to add to its tally of
92 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 57 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.

For more information log onto www.chipganassiracing.com