Okuma and Target Chip Ganassi Racing Renew Sponsorship

Grant Weaver, the team manager of shop operations for Chip Ganassi Racing, stated, “Their commitment to excellence in their CNC machine tools has helped us produce championship winning products for our race cars. The productivity and accuracy levels that we are able to produce from their equipment have allowed us to manufacture extremely precise parts with finishes so exacting that we have been able to finish parts in house without having to use outside processes like grinding. We are very proud to have a partnership with a company that is as committed as us to building the best equipment possible.”

Okuma America Corporation is the U.S.-based sales and service affiliate of Okuma Corporation, a world leader in CNC (computer numeric control) machine tools and machining process optimization, founded in 1898 in Nagoya, Japan. The company is the industry’s only single-source provider, with the machine, control, drive and spindle all manufactured by Okuma.

Along with its industry-leading distribution network (largest in the Americas), Okuma delivers an expansive breadth of products, technology strength and innovation, and deep service and support offerings that empower the customer. www.okuma.com

Chip Ganassi has been a fixture in the auto racing industry for over 25 years and is considered one of the most successful, as well as innovative, owners the sport has anywhere in the world. Today his teams include three cars in the IZOD IndyCar Series, two cars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and one Daytona Prototype in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series.

Overall his teams have 15 championships and 151 victories, including four Indianapolis 500s, a Daytona 500, a Brickyard 400 and five Rolex 24 At Daytonas.  Ganassi boasts state-of-the-art race shop facilities in Indianapolis and Brownsburg, Ind. and Concord, N.C., with a corporate office in Pittsburgh, Penn. www.chipganassiracing.co