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'Weird situations' damning Kiwi star's IndyCar quest - CtrlF.XYZ

'Weird situations' damning Kiwi star's IndyCar quest

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Chip Ganassi Racing frontman Scott Dixon says helium can't proceed being enactment successful "weird situations" successful his quest for a record-equalling seventh IndyCar title.

Despite having gait to pain successful practice, Dixon uncharacteristically bombed retired of the archetypal radical signifier successful qualifying for the second-to-last contention of the twelvemonth successful Portland.

'The Iceman' past enactment successful a clutch performance, recovering from a lowly 16th starting spot to decorativeness third down Team Penske duo Scott McLaughlin and Will Power.

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It means Dixon goes into the last contention of the play 20 points successful arrears of Power and adjacent successful 2nd spot with Josef Newgarden.

Although helium was blessed to travel distant with 3rd spot astatine Portland, the six-time bid victor bemoaned the side's lacklustre showing successful qualifying and the "most improved" tag.

"Could have, should have, would have," said Dixon, who has a accidental to adjacent AJ Foy for 7 IndyCar titles.

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"It's 1 of those things. Proud of the team, I deliberation they've done a large job, but we support putting ourselves successful these weird situations.

"The car was fantastic successful Q1 retired the box. I didn't expect excessively overmuch of a alteration and thought we would person converted casual and didn't adjacent marque it.

"We person to halt doing these astir improved days, for sure, it's not that overmuch fun," helium added.

"You know, inactive successful it, that's each that we tin anticipation for."

Like bid person Power, Dixon has enjoyed a affluent vein of consistency passim 2022. The Kiwi has finished wrong the apical 10 successful each but 1 contention this year.

The lone blemish connected his books remains 21st successful the Indianapolis 500, which helium led for the lion's stock lone to bull a drive-through punishment for speeding successful the pit lane.

The Portland podium was his 4th of the season, which includes 2 wins successful Toronto and Nashville.

Dixon looked an improbable campaigner for a podium decorativeness successful the caller affair, lone for 4th and 5th placed Newgarden and Alexander Rossi to get into each different connected the past contention restart.

Then, Pato O'Ward was deemed to person blocked Dixon, gifting him 3rd aft officials told the Mexican to cede the position.

"It was interesting," said Dixon.

"I deliberation erstwhile I saw Josef interruption I was, like, 'Wow, I'm not definite if helium is going to marque the corner'.

"He did each that helium could to marque the corner, but enactment him astatine a weird angle, and that, obviously, offset him and Rossi due to the fact that Rossi had a large tally connected him retired of 12 into crook one. Then, got a large exit.

"I deliberation Will and Pato got into it arsenic well, and I got a tally connected Pato, and helium enactment a beauteous large artifact on, and a thigh aboriginal Indy called that, and I was capable to get past, which thankfully I deliberation the beforehand 3 we pulled a 10-second spread connected the adjacent battalion wherever we pulled distant truly quickly.

"It was a large restart. Something that decidedly helped america connected the points side, and we'll instrumentality what we can."

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