Dixon wins third straight race

Lexington, OH (Sports Network) - Scott Dixon captured Sunday's inaugural The Honda 200 at Mid-Ohio road course and in the process collected his third consecutive victory. The No.9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver crossed the finish line 2.6917 seconds ahead of Dario Franchitti.
The victory was Dixon's third of the season and ninth of his IndyCar career.
Helio Castroneves, Tony Kanaan and Danica Patrick completed the top-five.

Dixon wins IndyCar qualifying in Nashville

Lebanon, TN (Sports Network) - Scott Dixon captured the pole for Saturday night's Firestone Indy 200 at the Nashville Superspeedway. The No.9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver circled the 1.333-mile oval in 22.8947 seconds (204.414 m.p.h.).
The pole victory was Dixon's second of the season and eighth of his IndyCar career. Dixon, the defending Firestone Indy 200 champion, won last week's road course race at Watkins Glen, his third in a row at the upstate New York site.
"The car has been fast all weekend," said Dixon. "It's good for what we need. You know we need to put the pressure on the AGR guys any time we can, leading sessions and leading qualifying. Hopefully we'll have a good car in the race tomorrow."
Dario Franchitti will start alongside Dixon on the front row after a best lap of 22.9555 seconds.
Franchitti has been great all season and it shows in the standings. He has three wins, including the Indianapolis 500, and has yet to finish below seventh. Franchitti has been even better over the last three weeks winning two times and finishing third in the other.
Franchitti has taken a close championship race that had at least six drivers thinking titles and turned it into a two-man, maybe a three-man, race.
The Edinburgh, Scotland native owns a 47-point lead over Dixon. Franchitti's Andretti Green Racing teammate Tony Kanaan is in third place, 75 points back.
Kanaan (22.9668) and Sam Hornish Jr. (22.9815) will make up row two.
The race is set to drop the green flag on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. (et).

Scott Dixon wins at Camping World Watkins Glen Grand Prix IndyCar race

Watkins Glen, NY (Sports Network) - Scott Dixon captured Sunday's Camping World Watkins Glen Grand Prix IndyCar race on the Watkins Glen International road course for the third consecutive year. The No.9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver crossed the finish line 6.2591 seconds ahead of Sam Hornish Jr.
The victory was Dixon's first of the season and seventh of his IndyCar career.
"Our car was bloody fast," said Dixon.
Helio Castroneves led Dixon to the green flag for the first of 60 scheduled laps. Dixon tried to go to the inside at the first turn, but couldn't get it done. In fact, Dario Franchitti got even with Dixon and almost completed a move around the outside of the No.9 Target Chip Ganassi car.
Castroneves quickly built his lead to almost half-a-second in the opening laps. By lap 10 the gap had increased to 1.0611 seconds. Franchitti was hanging close, but fourth-place Tony Kanaan had fallen more than six seconds off the pace.
The top-three stayed in close proximity and all three pitted together on lap 16. They returned to the track in the same order they entered. Marco Andretti inherited the lead, but he had yet to make his first stop.
After the stop, Dixon seemed to be a little quicker than Castroneves as he closed the gap to just a few car lengths. On the other hand, Franchitti dropped back almost three seconds from the leaders.
They were coming out of turn 11 and heading to the start/finish line to begin lap 21 when Castroneves got loose and slammed the outside wall. Dixon avoided the incident, ducking to the inside and assumed the race lead.
Castroneves got out of the car, unhurt, but frustrated. It was his third DNF this season compared to 2006 when the Brazilian had one for the entire season.