🗣 'This is crazy, this might actually work out' 🤪 IndyCar legend scottdixon9 relives his 54th career victory as he 'spun and won' on the Indy Road Course ⬇️
When asked at what point he felt that he’d be able to pull off a last-to-first result, Dixon said it was when erstwhile race dominator“Probably halfway through the second-to-last stint on used tires where we were maintaining a gap,” Dixon replied. “[Rahal] was behind me where it pops up on my dash that he's the next car. We had a like a six-second lead. I kept looking at it, running the lap times.“For me, the pace was not too difficult to get.
“That was my first ‘a-ha’ moment where I'm like we're definitely in a strong position here to pull that off.place, which meant he had multiple fresh alternates left for the race, and said the team was planning on running a two-stop strategy – which is essentially what it then did after he got rid of the primary tires and topped off with fuel on lap five under caution.
“I was actually shocked just the pace that we had,” he admitted. “The car just kept doing the same lap times, mid-73s to 74-flats. The fuel mileage, huge credit to Honda and HPD, it was remarkably easy to get. “We were going to kind of try the two-stop early anyway. I think we were planning to stop between lap five and 10 anyway, we kind of wanted to get rid of the black [primary] tire pretty quickly. Hoping to have great faith that the red [alternate] was actually going to last, and it did.”
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