| With the 2010 IndyCar Series revved up and ready to | | | | race, joining only Helio Castroneves and Tony Kanaan |
| go, memories of 2009 come flooding back onto the | | | | as active IRL drivers to have reached the 200 |
| racetrack as this year's series unfolds. IRL fan | | | | threshold. Franchitti is expected to be a frontrunner in |
| favorites like Danica Patrick, Scott Dixon and Dario | | | | the series again this year, shedding new light on Chip |
| Franchitti are back in action in 2010 and are already | | | | Ganassi Racing as a dominant racing team. |
| selling <a rel="nofollow" | | | | Will Power, No. 12, Team Penske. After the Streets of |
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| tickets</a> to upcoming races, signifying 2010 as a | | | | chart. Power begins this season as a full-time driver, |
| year not to be missed in motorsports. Several | | | | coming off a tumultuous year in 2009, which he started |
| storylines are starting to unravel surrounding the first | | | | in Helio Castroneves' place while Castroneves was in |
| month of the open-wheel racing season, and here are | | | | court facing six counts of tax evasion. Power drove |
| a few of the top drivers to keep an eye on this year. | | | | so well at the start of '09 he earned Roger Penske's |
| Dario Franchitti, No. 10, Target Chip Ganassi Racing. | | | | sponsorship during the rest of the year's races, and he |
| After a failed season in NASCAR in 2008, Dario | | | | even won last year's race at Edmonton, claiming his |
| Franchitti came back to the IRL with a vengeance and | | | | first IRL victory. 2009 ended on a somber note for the |
| proved he was no back-of-the-pack driver in '09. | | | | driver, however, as a crash during practice at the |
| Franchitti stole the IndyCar Series championship title | | | | Motorola Indy 300 in Sonoma left him with two |
| from teammate Scott Dixon in 2009, and he begins | | | | fractured vertebrae in his back. Power was out for |
| the 2010 season by surpassing another milestone. At | | | | the rest of the '09 season, but this year he returns |
| the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on March 28, | | | | under Penske's sponsorship and has already become |
| Franchitti will have driven in his 200th career IndyCar | | | | a top driver on the track. |