DIXON HANGS ON TO PIP HERTA TO POLE
INDIANAPOLIS 500
As good a racer as Scott Dixon has been over his 20-year Indycar career – six championships, 51 victories and counting – he is not the most prolific of pole position winners, with ‘only’ 27. And they have become particularly sparse of late: the 26th came at the Indianapolis 500 four years ago; the 27th arrived on the 2.5-mile superspeedway last Sunday.
It was Dixon’s fourth pole around the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway, whose unique demands become even more demanding in qualifying,
