Chip Ganassi earns 200th victory with Rolex class win

Ganassi's two Ford entries dominated the GT Le Mans class and defended last year's victory.

The team of Ryan Briscoe, Richard Westbrook and Scott Dixon won and defeated its sister car, which was the defending class champion. The car of Joey Hand, Dirk Mueller and Sebastien Bourdais finished second.

Ganassi, the grand marshal of this year's race, now has eight wins in 15 Rolex appearances. His teams won six overall titles and now have two class victories. He's the only team owner in history to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500, Brickyard 400, Rolex and 12 Hours of Sebring.

As the Ford GTs are now painted in the same color shades as the production vehicles, the colors are much brighter in the Florida sun. Homage was paid to the late Dan Gurney with the decal shown on the car above

For the Ganassi entries, it was last year's winning car that dominated until the final driver change of the race. The No. 67 car was slightly quicker on pit road and it put Briscoe out ahead of Hand. Briscoe and Westbrook won the Rolex for the first times in their careers, but it is the third watch for Dixon. It was fitting that Dixon was part of the team's 200th victory -- he's the longest tenured driver in Ganassi history.

"Everybody just wants to win. We come here each weekend to win," said Dixon, winner of 41 races with Ganassi. "There's no thinking about just finishing, or finishing second. Everyone thrives on the winning culture of this team."