He won the 2007 Champ Car championship with Sébastien Bourdais and the 2020 Indianapolis 500 with Takuma Sato.
In 1973, Lanigan founded a division of his father's company, Mi-Jack Construction Equipment, in Indianapolis.
Mi-Jack produces rubber-tire gantry cranes, and in 1992, began sponsoring cars in CART and the Indianapolis 500.
[2] He currently leads the Lanco Group, a conglomerate involved in cranes, industrial equipment, entertainment, motorsport interests, and a joint venture that operates the Panama Canal Railway.
In 2007, Lanigan also held partial ownership of Carl A. Haas Motorsports in NASCAR.