Scott Dixon recovered from an opening lap spin to win on the Indianapolis Road Course - but only just 🏆 INDYCAR race report ⬇️
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon won the IndyCar Series race at the Indianapolis Road Course on Saturday, recovering from an opening lap spin to beat all the regular strategy runners.Dixon won by less than half a second from Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Graham Rahal and Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward.
Chaos then unfolded further around the track, as the cars fanned out four-wide on the approach to Turn 7. Palou backed out but, at the apex, team-mate Armstrong turned across his bows and they made contact, with the third Ganassi car of Dixon getting spun around as he got into the back of Palou and was hit from behind by Romain Grosjean .
At the restart on lap 8, DeFrancesco led Rahal, O’Ward, Lundgaard, the McLarens of Alexander Rossi and Felix Rosenqvist and Scott McLaughlin . Kyle Kirkwood was eighth, despite a scare getting started off the dummy grid, ahead of Palou. Lundgaard passed O’Ward for third, while Palou stumbled over getting around DeFrancesco, the two banging wheels and allowing Kirkwood to slip past him for eighth. Kirkwood then dived into pitlane for an early first stop on lap 15, ditching his primaries for the preferable alternates. O’Ward stopped from fourth a couple of laps later to do likewise.Rahal led Rossi at one quarter distance by 1.2s, with Lundgaard 3s further back.
Rahal pitted again on lap 48, forced to switch to used primaries as he’d lost his Q3 alternates due to locking up on them. Lundgaard stayed out on his alternates, now with clean air to attempt to overcut his team-mate. Rahal pitted for the final time with 23 laps to go, taking used alternates for the final stint. Having beaten everyone in his fight, it was Dixon’s completely alternate strategy that would pay off.Dixon, who broke the all-time record for consecutive IndyCar starts with his 319that separates him from Tony Kanaan, routinely led laps during the pit cycles as he worked his way back towards the front.
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