Barry Wanser

Team manager at Chip Ganassi Racing and race strategist for Alex Palou’s No. 10 IndyCar team, known for leading timing-stand race strategy and driver communication during Palou’s championship-winning runs.

Chip Ganassi Racing Uses OpenAI to Find Tenths Between Sessions

OpenAI’s Joyce Ruffell presents the company’s collaboration with Chip Ganassi Racing as an effort to turn an already data-rich IndyCar operation into a faster decision-making system. The case made in the source is not that AI replaces race judgment, but that it can connect historical, test, race, pit-stop, and strategy data quickly enough to matter in the narrow windows between sessions and during a race. At Long Beach, the argument is illustrated through Alex Palou’s win: a late pit-strategy adaptation, precise crew execution, and trusted information flow produced the margin.

OpenAIMay 28, 20266 min read