Chip Ganassi Racing’s Dixon grew to become the all-time lap chief for the most important open-wheel race in America, surpassing Al Unser Sr’s report of 644 laps led on lap 133 of the 2022 Indy 500. Dixon began the day third on the record and handed Ralph dePalma’s mark of 612 simply earlier than half distance.
Polesitter Dixon appeared accountable for the race main 95 laps total however completed 21st resulting from his pitlane rushing penalty which occurred in his ultimate scheduled pitstop whereas main with 25 laps remaining.
“It’s simply heart-breaking to be trustworthy,” Dixon advised NBC. “It should’ve been very shut [to the limit], I got here into the pits and locked the rears, then type of locked all 4, so I knew it could be shut and I believe it was a mile an hour over or one thing.
“The automobile was actually good all day, we had actually good velocity, the staff did a tremendous job on technique. I simply tousled.”
Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing Honda
Photograph by: Geoffrey M. Miller / Motorsport Images
Group-mate Alex Palou, with whom Dixon traded the lead as a way to save gas over the opening stint, additionally suffered a pitlane catastrophe forward of his second pitstop, when he was pressured to take emergency service.
The reigning IndyCar champion was nearly to enter the pits when the purple gentle in pitlane got here on for Callum Ilott’s crash at Flip 2. The ensuing penalty despatched him to 32nd place after the restart, however he battled his method again to complete ninth.
“I had a number of enjoyable on this race, there was only one level the place my coronary heart broke in items,” mentioned Palou, who nonetheless led 47 laps on the day resulting from his off-sequence technique. “We simply stored going and we had an excellent outcome on the finish of the day.
“I’m pleased with the staff and super-proud for Marcus [Ericsson, his winning team-mate]. We simply didn’t have the luck we wanted, we had a extremely robust automobile and had been extracting the whole lot from it.
“On the finish, I simply couldn’t have performed something totally different with that yellow, so simply fallacious place, fallacious time. We’ll come again once more subsequent yr.
“I needed to work lots at present, it was super-hard to come back again from there, we had the automobile to win the race, so it’s a bit simpler whenever you’re again there. It was essentially the most overtaking strikes I’ve made in an oval race, so I’m pleased with getting again up there.”
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