Will Plummer

Will Plummer is the head human performance trainer for Chip Ganassi Racing, where he trains drivers, pit crews, and staff for the physical demands of IndyCar competition. His public work includes explaining motorsports conditioning, recovery, performance measurement, and the use of ChatGPT as an assistant strength and conditioning coach.

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