Jamie McMurray emerged victorious at the Brickyard 400 NASCAR race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday.

McMurray passed Kevin Harvick and Greg Biffle, giving Chip Ganassi, his team co-owner, an unparalleled feat in the world of motor-sports – the first ever team owner to win Indianapolis 500, Brickyard 400 and Daytona 500 in the same season.

McMurray took home the first prize at the Daytona 500 in February this year, and Dario Franchitti, a member of Ganassi’s IndyCar team, bagged the big prize at the Indianapolis 500 in May this year as well.

McMurray once said in an interview, when asked about his team up with Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, “I think it’s just a situation where you got to get the guys in the right position with the right crew chief and the right team and the right owner. I’ll tell you something that [team owner] Chip [Ganassi] said to me right before I got in the car. He said, ‘Let’s go out and do this thing.’ I said, ‘I’ll give you everything I got.’ He said, ‘I know, that’s why I hired you. I believe in you. You go out and do your best, that will be enough.’”

“I think every driver is different, but for me that’s what drives me, is having somebody behind you. I think it’s been really good for both Chip and I to experience all of this together because we were together when things weren’t great and we kind of built this together along with the 1 team to where it is,” McMurray added.

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