Championship Puts Dixon On Indy Cars' Top Shelf - RacinToday.com
Martians licensed to drive an open-wheel race car were in short supply four events into the 2002 Championship Auto Racing Teams season, when native New Zealander Scott Dixon moved from PacWest Racing to Target Chip Ganassi Racing. Dixon started fourth and finished sixth in his Ganassi debut at famed The Milwaukee Mile. Thirty-eight wins and four championships later, Ganassi acknowledged that Dixon has fashioned a career that is other-worldly. The IndyCar driver of our generation for sure,” Ganassi said Sunday at Sonoma Raceway after Dixon had secured the 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series championship in a tiebreaker over Juan Pablo Montoya. I mean, he’s just a quality _ obviously a quality driver but (also) a quality person, a father, a husband _ just the kind of guy you want in your organization. “Obviously this morning we went over the scenarios all week and we knew we had the car to be at the front, but you know you need a lot of other things to happen today and they all seemed to happen for one reason for another. ” Dixon, who started ninth in the 85-lap race on the 2. 385-mile/12-turn Sonoma road-course, tied Montoya with 556 points after the Colombian’s sixth-place finish. Dixon won the tiebreaker because he had more wins during the season. Dixon won on the Streets of Long Beach, the June night race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth and Sonoma during the 16-event season. Source: www.racintoday.com
