It’s clear both Chip Ganassi Racing and Team Penske have distanced themselves from the rest of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES field. The duo have combined to have won each of the last 10 series championships and where we sit at the midseason mark, I struggle to think anyone will top them again this year.

They currently have six of the top seven in points including 1-2-3-4-6-7 at that.

They’ve also won 8 of the 9 races this year and 41 of the 56 (73.2%) of the races with the Aeroscreen. Furthermore, if you go back to the 2022 Indy 500, they’ve combined to have won 18 of the last 22 (81.8%) of the races.

Can anyone stop them moving forward?

Next up is the streets of Toronto to where both Penske and Ganassi have combined to have won five straight there. Overall, they have combined to have won 7 of the last 8 street course races and 13 of the last 19 of them in general. Only Andretti Autosport (4 wins) and Arrow McLaren Racing (1 win) has won in this span.

Next up after that is next weekend’s Iowa doubleheader. Penske has won 5 of the last 7 on the .894-mile bullring.

The thing is, Penske has been the top dog on short ovals in general since 2018 with 9 wins in 13 tries. Josef Newgarden is tops among drivers with winning 7 of those 9 races for Penske himself.

On short ovals, this could very well be a Pato O’Ward vs. Josef Newgarden battle anyhow. The duo has combined to have won 7 of the last 8 oval races in general with Newgarden winning 6 of the last 8 by himself. He’s 2-for-2 this season. In fact,Newgarden and O’Ward have won five in-a-row dating back to Race 2 at World Wide Technology Raceway in 2020. They’ve also gone 1-2 in 5 of the last 12 oval races too.

That gets you to Nashville to where Ganassi is 2-for-2. Then it’s to the Indy road course for which Ganassi won with Palou this past May. Penske has won 3 of the 4 return trip weekend’s to the IMS road course.

After that it’s to Gateway. Remember that short oval stat?

The final two races are out west in Portland and Laguna Seca.

Ganassi won Portland in 2021, Penske won in 2022. Ganassi won Laguna Seca last year.

However, who’s next up behind them? Andretti statistically has, but McLaren looks primed to take over the third spot. While they have only won twice in the last 34 races compared to five instances by Andretti, you can feel the tide coming.

McLaren now has two drivers in the top 8 in points. Andretti’s best is ninth. Between the four teams though, if you throw in Penske and Ganassi with Andretti and McLaren, they make up 12 of the top 13 in points.

The thing is, these four have really separated themselves in this era.

Since 2022, these four have won all 27 races and if you go back to 2021, they’ve won 37 straight. Furthermore, in this Aeroscreen era (57 races), they’ve won 94.7% (54-for-57) of them.

The last non “Big 4” team to win was Meyer Shank Racing in 2021. In fact, these teams didn’t win the Month of May at all with Ed Carpenter Racing’s Rinus VeeKay winning the GMR Grand Prix and Helio Castroneves the Indy 500.

The only other time they didn’t win was the 2020 Indy 500 with RLL and Takuma Sato.

That’s it.

The separation is real. You have the top 2, the next two, then the rest.

Penske has won 22 times. Ganassi has won 21. Andretti has won 7 and McLaren 4. The other teams are RLL, ECR and MSR each with 1.