Straight from racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans Scott Dixon rejoins the NTT IndyCar Series for this weekend’s REV Group Grand Prix presented by AMR at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
“We were fortunate enough to be racing last weekend at Le Mans when most others had an off weekend after Texas,” commented Dixon. “It will be good to be back in the PNC Bank car, though.
“We won at Road America in 2017 and have had strong cars there. It’s such a great track and one the drivers all love to compete at.
“We haven’t had the best luck or finishes over the past few rounds and now is the time for results. We’re at the halfway mark in the season and you really have to start collecting points to set up for the final races to have a shot at the championship. I think this weekend will be key for that reason.”
The 55 laps / 220.77 mile race takes place on Sunday at 11:50am (local time).
Here are the IndyCar.com Fast Facts
1/ There have been six different winners in nine NTT IndyCar Series races in 2019. Josef Newgarden (Streets of St. Petersburg, Raceway at Belle Isle Park-1 and Texas Motor Speedway), Colton Herta (Circuit of The Americas), Takuma Sato (Barber Motorsports Park), Alexander Rossi (Streets of Long Beach), Simon Pagenaud (Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course and Indianapolis Motor Speedway) and Scott Dixon (Raceway at Belle Isle Park-2) have won races in 2019. The record for most different winners in a season is 11 in 2000, 2001 and 2014.
2/ There have been seven different winners in the last 10 NTT IndyCar Series races (Ryan Hunter-Reay, Josef Newgarden, Colton Herta, Takuma Sato, Alexander Rossi, Simon Pagenaud and Scott Dixon). The only repeat winners in that stretch: Pagenaud (INDYCAR Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500 in 2019) and Newgarden (St. Petersburg, Belle Isle-1 and Texas in 2019).
3/ There have been six different NTT P1 Award winners in 2019. Will Power (Streets of St. Petersburg and Circuit of The Americas), Takuma Sato (Barber Motorsports Park and Texas Motor Speedway), Alexander Rossi (Streets of Long Beach, Raceway at Belle Isle Park-1), Felix Rosenqvist (Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course) Simon Pagenaud (Indianapolis Motor Speedway) and Josef Newgarden (Raceway at Belle Isle Park-2) have won poles in 2019. The record for most pole winners in a season is 12 set in the 1999 CART season.
4/ The REV Group Grand Prix presented by AMR will be the 29th Indy car race at Road America since it hosted its first Indy car event in 1982.
5/ The REV Group Grand Prix presented by AMR will be the eighth race on a road/street course in 2019. Six drivers have won the previous seven road/street races: Josef Newgarden (Streets of St. Petersburg and Raceway at Belle Isle Park-1), Colton Herta (Circuit of The Americas), Takuma Sato (Barber Motorsports Park), Alexander Rossi (Streets of Long Beach), Simon Pagenaud (INDYCAR Grand Prix) and Scott Dixon (Raceway at Belle Isle-2)
6/ Josef Newgarden, Will Power, Scott Dixon and Sebastien Bourdais are the only entered drivers who have won an Indy car race at Road America. They also are the four most recent winners at the track. Newgarden won last year, Dixon won the race in 2017 and Power won in Indy car’s return in 2016 – the first race at the track since Bourdais’ win in 2007. Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi have the most wins by an Indy car driver at the track (three).
7/ Seventeen drivers entered this weekend have previously raced Indy cars at Road America. Six of those drivers have led laps at the track (Sebastien Bourdais 92, Josef Newgarden 66, Will Power 46, Scott Dixon 26, Simon Pagenaud 2 and Graham Rahal 2).
8/ Eight drivers have won the Road America race from the pole: Mario Andretti (1983, 1984 and 1987), Danny Sullivan (1989), Paul Tracy (1993), Jacques Villeneuve (1995), Bruno Junqueira (2003), Sebastien Bourdais (2007), Will Power (2016) and Josef Newgarden (2018).
9/ Drivers who have won at Road America have gone on to win that season’s Indy car championship six times: Mario Andretti (1984), Michael Andretti (1991), Jacques Villeneuve (1995), Alex Zanardi (1997), Cristiano da Matta (2002) and Sebastien Bourdais (2007).
10/ Team Penske has won five times at Road America (1989, 1992, 1993, 2016 and 2018) and is one of two current teams with wins at the track. Chip Ganassi Racing has won three times at Road America (1997, 2001 and 2017). Newman/Haas Racing won a record 10 times at Road America.
11/ Rookies Marcus Ericsson, Santino Ferrucci, Colton Herta, Patricio O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist, along with veteran Jack Harvey, will race an NTT IndyCar Series car at Road America for the first time this weekend.
12/ Tony Kanaan seeks to start his 310th consecutive race this weekend, which would extend his Indy car record streak that began in June 2001 at Portland. Kanaan would pass his team owner A.J. Foyt for sole possession of second all time in career starts should he make his 370th start at Road America on Sunday.
13/ Scott Dixon has made 250 consecutive starts heading into the weekend, which is the second-longest streak in Indy car racing. Marco Andretti has made 226 consecutive starts, which is the third-longest streak in Indy car racing.
14/ Scott Dixon, the longest-tenured driver for Chip Ganassi Racing, is third on the all-time Indy car victory list with 45 wins. Sebastien Bourdais is sixth on the all-time list with 37 wins and Will Power is tied with Bobby Unser for seventh on the all-time list with 35 wins.
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