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Brilliant Rosenqvist makes move for win

Plenty of heroes, angst-ridden stories of what might have been, a hero-turned-villain, an old winner and a new winner – the two IndyCar Series races last weekend at Road America had it all. Heck, they even had spectators although, in these pandemic-blighted times, they weren’t allowed access to the paddock.

One thread of the season remains unbroken, however, because the Honda-powered Chip Ganassi Racing remains unbeaten. Scott Dixon took the Saturday victory to score three in a row – something he hadn’t achieved since mid-2013 – while one of his team-mates, Swedish sophomore Felix Rosenqvist, earned the second after an exhilarating chase down of surprise polewinner Patricio O’Ward.

With the event being a double-header, but with Thursday and Friday given over to Road to Indy’s Indy Pro 2000 and USF2000 events in order to reduce the number of people in the paddock at any given time, time was very much of the essence, and the schedule was quickfire. Between practice

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