Maestro Dixon gets back in the winning groove
It’s only when you haven’t seen it happen for some time that you remember how good Scott Dixon is at making an IndyCar race win look easy. This one, his fourth in Toronto, was his 52nd overall, and drew him level with Mario Andretti for second in IndyCar’s all-time winners list. It extended a record he already owned for winning at least one race in consecutive seasons – that now stands at 18 – while overall, he has visited victory lane in 20 of his 22 years at the top level of US open-wheel racing.
But there may have been something far more significant about that triumph last Sunday: Dixon has now moved into fifth in the championship, just 44 points behind leader Marcus Ericsson and only nine behind second-placed Will Power who, like Team Penske stablemate Josef Newgarden, suffered a very poor weekend north of the border. Should Dixon ultimately prevail come season’s end, he will match another great, AJ Foyt, by clinching a seventh Indycar title. No one has won more.
The 1.786-mile course around Toronto’s Exhibition Place is notoriously difficult and, since the COVID-19 pandemic and
