The team that has dominated CART racing for the last four years has signed to use Toyota engines for the 2000 Champ Car season. Target Chip Ganassi Racing, which this season wrapped up its fourth consecutive driver's championship with Juan Montoya, will run the emerging Toyota powerplants for the next three seasons. The announcement was made just days before retiring driver Scott Pruett gave Toyota its first ever pole position at the season-ending California Speedway event. "We've been monitoring the Toyota, and I have to tell you I think they're ready to win," Ganassi said. "I want to be the one to bring them to the winner's circle. "I'm sure we're going to continue to win races." Ganassi Racing's record over the last four seasons is second to none, with driver's titles for Jimmy Vasser (1996), Alex Zanardi (1997 and 1998) and Montoya this year. Montoya and Vasser will continue with the Toyota-powered team in 2000. Appropriately, Vasser is a Toyota-dealer in Northern California. "We're very pleased to add the dominant team in Champ Car racing to the Toyota line-up for the new millennium," Toyota Motor Sales USA's vice president of motorsports Jim Aust said. "It says a lot about the progress of our program that an established champion has that type of confidence in us." Toyota is yet to announce which other Champ Car teams will run its engines in the 2000 season, which opens at Homestead, Miami, on March 26. Toyota has rationalised its motorsports programs world-wide, focusing on the two premier open-wheel championships, CART and Formula One, in the new millennium. Toyota leaves the World Rally Championship stage on a high having clinched the manufacturers title this year.