By Americo Teixeira Jr. – The news that had already been announced by reporter Jenna Fryer of the Associated Press, was confirmed yesterday with the official announcement by the Brazilian Tony Kanaan Chip Ganassi Racing. Indycar champion in 2004 (was still called IRL ) and winner of the Indy 500 this year, Kanaan signed a contract for five years and will be the main sponsor Japanese communications giant, NTT Data.

At the same time, Chip Ganassi announced the change of partnership in the sector of engines, leaving Honda to use Chevrolet next year. The team based in Indianapolis the propellant used Chevy only in NASCAR.

To Kanaan, hiring represents a substantial comeback, mainly because it is just when bears the title of the current winner of the Indy 500. It was his only victory in its three years of KV Racing Technology, although winning in Indianapolis is worth a handful of other victories. He has added to the other 15 previously conquered (Except for the first, in 1999, by Tasman, all the others were Andretti).

Almost 39 years old, recently married to a North American journalist Lauren Bohlander , said in 2011 after almost got off the starting grid at the Indianapolis 500: “I am Brazilian and never give up”.