Scott Dixon

Scott Ronald Dixon CNZM (born 22 July 1980) is a professional racing driver from New Zealand. Competing for Chip Ganassi Racing since joining IndyCar, Dixon has won the championship six times: in 2003, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2020. He also won the 92nd Indianapolis 500 in 2008 from pole position. With 50 wins, Dixon is the third most successful driver in American Championship Cars history (trailing only A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti with 67 and 52, respectively), and his 50 wins leads all active drivers in the current IndyCar Series. He is also a three-time overall winner and one-time GTLM winner at the 24 Hours of Daytona. Alongside his six series' titles, Dixon won at least one race for sixteen consecutive seasons between 2005 and 2020, and shares with Foyt the all-time record of winning a race in 18 seasons.[1] He is the only driver to win the IndyCar championship in his inaugural year in the series.

Scott Dixon CNZM
Dixon at the 2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore
Nationality	New Zealander
Born	Scott Ronald Dixon 22 July 1980 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Nickname	The Iceman
IndyCar Series career
289 races run over 18 years
Team(s)	No. 9 (Chip Ganassi Racing)
2020 position	1st
Best finish	1st (2003, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2020)
First race	2003 Toyota Indy 300 (Homestead)
Last race	2020 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg)
First win	2003 Toyota Indy 300 (Homestead)
Last win	2020 Bommarito Automotive Group 500 Race 1 (Gateway)
Wins Podiums Poles 49 118 29
Champ Car career
39 races run over 2 years
Years active	2001–2002
Team(s)	PacWest Racing Chip Ganassi Racing
Best finish	8th (2001)
First race	2001 Tecate/Telmex Grand Prix of Monterrey (Monterrey)
Last race	2002 Gran Premio Telmex-Gigante (Mexico City)
First win	2001 Lehigh Valley Grand Prix (Nazareth)
Last win	2001 Lehigh Valley Grand Prix (Nazareth)
Wins Podiums Poles 1 3 0
Previous series
1994 1995–1996 1997–1998 1999–2000 2001–2002	NZ Formula Vee NZ Formula Ford Australian Formula Holden Indy Lights CART Champ Car
Championship titles
1994 1995 1996 1998 2000 2003 2008 2008 2013 2015 2018 2020	NZ Formula Vee Class II NZ Formula Ford Class II NZ Formula Ford Class I Australian Drivers' Champ Indy Lights IndyCar Series Indianapolis 500 Winner IndyCar Series IndyCar Series IndyCar Series IndyCar Series IndyCar Series
Awards
1999 2001 2003 2004 2006 2008 2009 2015 2019	Jim Clark Trophy CART Rookie of the Year Jim Clark Trophy Bruce McLaren Trophy Jim Clark Trophy Rolex 24 at Daytona overall winner Bruce McLaren Trophy NZ Sportsman of the Year Inducted into MotorSport New Zealand Wall of Fame Rolex 24 at Daytona overall winner Jim Clark Trophy New Zealand Order of Merit
Signature

Dixon was selected in a worldwide poll among fans as one of the 33 greatest drivers in Indianapolis 500 history.[2] Among other notable awards won by Dixon are the Jim Clark Trophy[3] (1999, 2001, 2004 and 2019)[4] and the Bruce McLaren Trophy (2003, 2008). In the 2009 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to motorsport, and in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. He was New Zealand's Sportsman of the Year in 2008 and 2013.

Early years

Dixon was born in Brisbane, Australia,[5] to New Zealand parents Ron and Glenys Dixon who were both dirt-track race car drivers.[6] The family returned to Auckland in New Zealand when Dixon was very young. He grew up in Manurewa, a suburb in south Auckland and was a student at James Cook High School. Scott began racing karts as a seven-year-old,[7] and caught the attention of the New Zealand public when granted a special dispensation to obtain a competition licence to race a saloon car as a 13-year-old.[8] At the time of this dispensation, New Zealanders could not obtain a road licence until turning 15 years old. Dixon was competing at Pukekohe Park Raceway in a one-make series featuring the Nissan Sentra when he rolled the car onto its roof. He caught national attention when TV showed him struggling from the upturned car with a cushion strapped to his back to enable him to reach the pedals, and wiping a tear from his eye.[9]

Junior Racing

In 1994, he won the New Zealand Formula Vee championship,[10] before taking the Formula Ford Class 2 series in 1995 with 13 wins from 14 races, and then the full New Zealand Formula Ford championship the next year.

In 1997 Dixon decided to race in the Formula Holden category in Australia. With no money to carry on racing, Rotorua businessman Christopher Wingate provided Dixon and his mentor, Kiwi racing hero Kenny Smith, with both money and airfares between New Zealand and Australia to ensure Dixon's career moved ahead. Dixon won Rookie of the Year and third overall in the 1997 Australian Drivers' Championship driving the Ralt Australia prepared Reynard. This resulted in him being offered a drive with top team SH Racing. As the budgets were going to exceed $250,000, Wingate suggested a company be formed to fund Dixon's career. That company was called Scott Dixon Motorsport (SDMS), funded by shareholders who over the next two years invested more than $1m in Dixon. This allowed him to pursue his career without worrying about money. In 1998 Dixon won the Australian Drivers' Championship outright. That win brought offers to race in the Australian V8 Supercar series but that was not where he wanted to make his mark, so arrangements were made for him to go to the US to test in the Indy Lights series.

Moving to the United States

With the backing of Scott Dixon Motorsport investors, Dixon moved to the United States in 1999. After a test in Sebring where Dixon broke the track record on his eighth lap, he was signed to Johansson Motorsports Indy Lights team, beginning a long management association with the team's owner, former Ferrari and McLaren Formula One driver Stefan Johansson. He set a lap record when taking pole position for the Chicago oval race which he won. He was consistently fast throughout the year but had five DNFs, which limited him to fifth place in the series.

In 2000 Dixon remained in Indy Lights, moving to the PacWest team. He took the championship in resounding fashion, scoring six wins and seven podium finishes.

CART

2001

PacWest Racing graduated Dixon to its full CART team in 2001. Dixon immediately out-paced his teammate, the former Formula One driver Maurício Gugelmin. Dixon led his first race in Mexico for 14 laps. Just two races later he won at Nazareth Speedway – his first oval race in the senior CART series. At the age of 20 years, 9 months and 14 days became the youngest winner of a CART race. Dixon scored championship points in 11 of 20 starts, and led the FedEx Champ Car Series in laps completed with 2,521 out of a possible 2,610. He won the Jim Trueman Trophy for rookie of the year and was eighth in the championship.

2002

Dixon in his first year with Chip Ganassi Racing in CART.

Dixon remained with PacWest, owned by Bruce McCaw of McCaw Cellular, for 2002 but it soon became clear the team was woefully short of cash due to the dot com crash. When it eventually collapsed, Toyota arranged an introduction to Target Chip Ganassi Racing which added a third car to its squad to accommodate Dixon. It was his first experience of a true top-level team, which had the then top engine supplier, Toyota. Dixon posted 12 top-ten finishes, including a second place at Denver.

IndyCar Series

2003

Chip Ganassi joined CART teams Penske and Andretti-Green Racing in 2003 to switch to the all-oval Indy Racing League. Dixon won the season opener at Homestead in Florida. A tangle with Tony Kanaan in Japan left Dixon with a shattered hand, but he recovered to take two more victories and win the championship at his first try. Along the way he also set a record with 343 consecutive laps led, the first time a driver had led consecutive laps in three successive races. At Pikes Peak he led the last 84 laps to win, then led every lap of the next event at Richmond, and at the next event, at Kansas, led the first 53 laps.[11] Although it was his first year in the IRL, and he won the championship, Dixon was not eligible for rookie of the year due to his ChampCar experience.

At the end of the year, Ganassi had recruited Tony Renna as Dixon's teammate. Renna and Dixon became friends, but at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, during Renna's first practice session for the team, Renna crashed at high speed and was killed instantly.

2004 and 2005 seasons

By 2004, the Toyota engine had lost its edge and Dixon did not successfully defend his title. In the 32 races held during these two years, Dixon made the podium only twice, with a second and a solitary win. He tested for the Williams Formula One team, and finished 10th when representing the IRL in the 2004 International Race of Champions. In 2005 Dixon and his Ganassi teammates, Ryan Briscoe and Darren Manning, were struggling, and they wrote off or seriously damaged 28 cars in a long series of crashes. Manning was fired, and Australian Briscoe narrowly avoided serious injury when his car became airborne and disintegrated after touching another car and slammed into the outside retaining wall of Chicagoland Speedway's third turn. Amid rumours that Dixon could also be sacked, he bounced back to score his and the team's first win since 2003, the Indy Grand Prix at Watkins Glen International. Soon after, Dixon re-signed for a further two seasons with Ganassi.

2006–2009

Ganassi moved to Honda engines for the 2006 season, when Dixon was partnered with Englishman Dan Wheldon, the 2005 Indianapolis 500 winner and IRL series champion. Before the IRL season even started, they successfully combined as a one-car team (with Casey Mears) to win the 24 Hours of Daytona. Dixon repeated his 2005 Indy Grand Prix win at Watkins Glen, and became the first driver to win an IRL race run in wet conditions. At Nashville Superspeedway, he won the Gibson Guitar Trophy by a couple of car lengths over his teammate Wheldon. He finished fourth in the standings, completing a series-high 2,504 of a possible 2,510 laps and being the only driver to finish every race,[11] and finishing just 15 points behind Sam Hornish Jr. and Wheldon.

Practicing for the 2007 Indianapolis 500

Dixon was runner-up in the 2007 IndyCar Series season, 13 points behind Dario Franchitti. During the last event at Chicagoland, battling Franchitti for the win and the championship, Dixon was leading Franchitti on the final corner of the last lap when he ran out of fuel and coasted to the finish,[12][13] giving Franchitti the race win and the championship.

Earlier he had achieved his fourth win of the year, at Infineon Raceway, and his third consecutive Camping World Watkins Glen Grand Prix. He had four-second-place finishes, including in the rain-shortened Indianapolis 500, and finished in the top-five in 10 races that season. He dominated the rain-delayed Firestone Indy 200 at Nashville Superspeedway, his second consecutive win in the event, and second consecutive win of the season. He won the next race, the Honda 200 on 22 July, to become the third driver in history to win three IRL races in a row, joining Wheldon and Kenny Bräck.

On 5 August, Dixon was attempting to win a fourth straight race, at the Firestone Indy 400, when he was involved in a six-car accident. Dixon's crew repaired his car sufficiently to run two more laps, earning him series points but this ended his streak of 28 consecutive races – since retiring at the Chicagoland Speedway event in September 2005 – in which Dixon did not retire.

Scott Dixon and his wife, Emma

This was a highly successful season for Dixon who won the series championship for the second time, and won his first Indianapolis 500, from the pole, to give car owner Chip Ganassi his second win in the race. He also won at Homestead, Texas, Nashville, Edmonton and Kentucky, a record equalling six wins for a season in the series. In the final points scoring race of the series, at Chicagoland Speedway, Dixon needed to finish no worse than eighth if Castroneves won the race. He placed second to Castroneves in a tight photo finish. Speaking to the media later he said it had been an amazing, unforgettable year. "Getting married, winning the 500, winning a championship in one year – not too many people can probably say they've done that."[14] Motorsport.com took it further, saying that Dixon "can now say he's the 'best of the best' in American open-wheel racing, especially after this year's unification with Champ Car".[15]

At Kentucky he took his career laps-led tally to 2,149, becoming the fifth driver in the series to lead for more than 2,000 laps.[16] Also at Kentucky, Dixon replaced Alex Zanardi as the winningest IndyCar driver for Chip Ganassi (16th victory), and his pole position achieved on 30 August for the Detroit Indy Grand Prix gave him seven for the year, and took him to second all-time leading pole-setter with 15.[17] Also, he led 869 laps during the year, an all-time record for a single season. Just before the Chicagoland event, it was announced that teammate Wheldon would be moving to Panther Racing[18] in 2009 and Dixon's new partner would be Franchitti who would return from NASCAR.[19]

For recording the IndyCar Series championship/Indy500 double, Dixon was selected 2008 New Zealand Sportsman of the Year at the Halberg Awards held in February 2009.[20]

Dixon was one of five New Zealand motor sports personalities honoured in a special issue of New Zealand Post stamps. Others featured were: Denny Hulme, 1967 Formula One World Champion ; Bruce McLaren, race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor whose name lives on in Team McLaren; Ivan Mauger, six-time winner of the Speedway World Championship and voted greatest speedway rider of the 20th century; and Hugh Anderson, four time Grand Prix motorcycle racing world champion.[21]

At the start of the season, Dixon finished sixteenth and fifteenth in the first two races, at St. Pete and Long Beach. From then on he got to eight podiums, winning at Kansas, Milwaukee, Richmond, Mid-Ohio and Motegi, as well as a second at Chicago and thirds at Texas, Watkins Glen, and Edmonton. He led the most laps (73) in the Indy 500 but finished sixth. His dominant win at Mid-Ohio, by 29.7 seconds, was his 20th win in the IRL (21st of his career), making him the league's most successful driver. Daughter 1 was born in 2009

There was considerable rivalry between him and his friend and new partner in the team, Franchitti, who had returned to the IRL from NASCAR. Franchitti scored four wins, two seconds and two-thirds, and leading into the last race of the season at Homestead he was only five points behind Dixon. Complicating the issue was that Penske's Ryan Briscoe was only a further three points back, so whichever of the three drivers could win at Homestead would be series champion. Dixon started outside Franchitti on the front row and ran first and second with Briscoe for most of the race. However the two front-runners were forced to pit for fuel with only several laps remaining and the race win, along with the championship, went to Franchitti on a fuel saving strategy. Dixon claimed third in the race and second in the championship by one point over Briscoe.

2010–2012

Dixon talks to the press after winning the Pocono IndyCar 400 in 2013

In the 2010–2012 seasons, Dixon won seven races and finished third in the championship three times (twice behind teammate Franchitti).

2013–2015

He won at Pocono in July 2013, Indycar's first race there in 24 years, and Ganassi's first win of the year. He achieved back-to-back wins in the two-event Honda Indy Toronto. In the 2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, Dixon ran into one of Will Power's pit crew members, and was penalized. Dixon argued that the worker walked in front of his car, though IndyCar race director Beaux Barfield stated Dixon had driven into Power's work area. The next week at Baltimore, Dixon was involved in another incident with Power with 22 laps left, and officials ignored team requests to tow Dixon's car to pit lane for repairs. Dixon called for Barfield to be fired, and on 6 September, was fined $30,000 and placed on probation.[22] Dixon won the double-header Houston Grand Prix and by finishing fifth at the season finale in Fontana he secured his third championship title.

The year 2014 started well for Dixon when he was voted New Zealand Sportsman of the Year at the Halberg Awards, and he won two races and finished third in the championship. In the off-season, Dixon was third at both the Dan Weldon Karting Challenge and the 2014 Petit Le Mans endurance sports car race.

Dixon racing at Sonoma Raceway, the weekend when he secured his fourth IndyCar title

He opened his 2015 season by winning the 24 Hours of Daytona for Chip Ganassi. Dixon's 2015 season started off slow with a 15th at St. Petersburg and an 11th at Louisiana. Dixon went on to win his first IndyCar race of the season at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. He won his second Indianapolis 500 pole and led the most laps at 87, but finished fourth to eventual race winner Juan Pablo Montoya. Dixon has an awful weekend to his standards at the Duel in Detroit where he got wrecked in the second duel by his teammate Charlie Kimball. Dixon rebounded and dominated the Firestone 600 at Texas which was his second win of the season. Dixon had average results in the Top 10 with a worst finish of 18th at Iowa, though this helped him since championship rival Juan Pablo Montoya went out very early. Dixon finished a 4th at Mid Ohio, his bread and butter track and a 9th at Pocono. Dixon went to Sonoma needing to win the race and have Juan Pablo Montoya to finish 5th or worse for a 4th Championship and accomplished it. He and Juan Pablo Montoya ended the season with equal points but with three wins to Montoya's two, he won the 2015 IndyCar Series season championship, his fourth. In the 2015 off season Dixon won the Dan Wheldon Karting Challenge Honoring Justin Wilson.

2016–present

Dixon struggled through the 2016 season. He had victories at Phoenix and Watkins Glen but was sixth in the championship, the first time since 2006 he did not finish in the top three. His sponsor, Target, withdrew at the end of the year, ending a 27-year relationship with Ganassi and 13-year relationship with Dixon.

Dixon opened the 2017 season with third at St. Petersburg, his best finish there since 2014. He followed this with four consecutive top five finishes leading up to the Indianapolis 500. He won pole position for the race, the third in his career, setting the fastest pole time since Arie Luyendyk 21 years earlier.[23]

He was taken out of the race on lap 53 after Jay Howard cannoned off the Turn 2 wall. Dixon's car launched into an airborne flip, landing sidepod-first on top of the inside wall, crumbling the catch-fence and ripping the rear assembly from his car. Dixon walked away uninjured, but the incident caused a 20-minute red flag.

He was second the following weekend at Detroit behind Graham Rahal, but at Texas Motor Speedway a week later he was taken out for the second time in three races. He, Will Power and Takuma Sato were closely racing with six laps remaining when Sato lost control and touched Dixon's car, spinning both of them off the track.[24]

At Road America, Dixon scored his first win of the season, beating Josef Newgarden by 0.5779s. Dixon finished third in the championship to first time champion Josef Newgarden and 2016 Champion Simon Pagenaud.

Dixon began 2018 with a new full-time sponsor in PNC Bank adorning engine number 9. Dixon started off the year locking wheels and jumping over Takuma Sato at St. Petersburgh but rebounded to finish 6th. Dixon eventually recorded his first win of the year at the Duel in Detroit: Round 1. Dixon then went onto the next weekend to Texas and dominated again, redemption for last year after being taken out late. Dixon led 119 of 248 laps. After capitalizing on other drivers mistakes, Dixon went on to win at Toronto when he passed Josef Newgarden on the restart when he hit the wall. Dixon held off Simon Pagenaud and Robert Wickens to win. Dixon went on to finish 5th, 3rd, 3rd and 5th at Mid-Ohio, Pocono, Gateway, and Portland. At Portland, Dixon was involved in a lap 1 crash with James Hinchcliffe, Ed Jones, Sébastien Bourdais, Graham Rahal, and Marco Andretti who flipped over Dixon, Dixon sustained minimal damage when dirt was flying and the visibility was zero. Dixon rebounded and after a lucky break when his championship rival Alexander Rossi got an unlucky break. Rossi finished near the back while Dixon finished 5th in what could lead to his 5th Championship. In 2018 Born Racer: The Scott Dixon Story a documentary about Scott Dixon's early career and directed by Bryn Evans was released.

Dixon finished 4th in the 2019 IndyCar Series with a win in Detroit and Mid Ohio.

Dixon won the opening three races of the 2020 season, at Texas, Indianapolis Road Course and Road America. He led the championship for the whole season, a rare feat last recorded by Sam Hornish in 2001,[25] and edged out Josef Newgarden at the season finale at St. Petersburg. Dixon qualified second for the 2020 Indianapolis 500, barely missing pole to Marco Andretti. He was second in the race for the third time in his career - the race, won by Takuma Sato, ran the last 5 laps under caution, denying Scott any chance of racing for the win.

Other

Since joining IndyCar in 2003, Dixon has a career total of 14 road course wins, five street course wins and 19 oval wins. Of the oval wins, two came at tracks larger than 2 miles (3.2 km), five at ovals of 1 mile (1.6 km) or shorter and 12 at intermediate ovals. Of the road course wins, two came at Edmonton, an airfield circuit with significant enough runoff not to be a typical street track. The second win at Motegi for Dixon was at the road course track, unlike the oval track, they had used every other time. His four championship seasons have all seen differences in which tracks he was successful on. In 2003 Dixon won two consecutive short-oval events, then winning only two such events for the coming twelve seasons. Dixon then dominated the larger ovals in 2008, won three street course events in 2013 then followed by one street, one fast oval and one road course in 2015.

Formula One

In 2004 BMW gave Dixon a test drive in a Formula One car even while he raced with Toyota engines in the IRL. At the Paul Ricard Circuit in France, he drove a Williams and recorded respectable times during a one-day test, being not far off those of regular driver Ralf Schumacher. A two-day test six weeks later in Barcelona did not lead to a spot with the team.

In July 2013, Autosport magazine named Dixon one of the 50 greatest drivers to have never raced in Formula One.

Career results

American open–wheel racing results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Indy Lights

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Pts
1999	Johansson Motorsports	MIA 3	LBH 2	NAZ 4	MIL 15	POR 11	CLE 14	TOR 18	MIS 16	DET 7	CHI 1	LAG 2	FON 16	5th	88
2000	PacWest Lights	LBH 1	MIL 1	DET 4	POR 11	MIS 14	CHI 1	MDO 2	VAN 1	LAG 1	STL 15	HOU 15	FON 1	1st	155

CART

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Rank	Pts
2001	PacWest Racing	Reynard 01i	Toyota RV8F 2.65 V8	MTY 13	LBH 19	TXS C	NAZ 1	MOT 9	MIL 3	DET 22	POR 7	CLE 20	TOR 5	MCH 10	CHI 4	MDO 12	ROA 4	VAN 13	LAU 9	ROC 22	HOU 18	LAG 4	SRF 15	FON 17	8th	98
2002	PWR Championship Racing	Lola B02/00	Toyota RV8F 2.65 V8	MTY 6	LBH 18	MOT 9																			13th	97
	Chip Ganassi Racing						MIL 6	LAG 6	POR 7	CHI 6	TOR 5	CLE 15	VAN 16	MDO 5	ROA 17	MTL 10	DEN 2	ROC 12	MIA 18	SRF 15	FON 6	MXC 7

IndyCar Series

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Rank	Pts
2003	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	G-Force	Toyota	HMS 1	PHX 20	MOT 15	INDY 17	TXS 6	PIK 1	RIR 1	KAN 6	NSH 2	MCH 5	GTW 15	KTY 2	NAZ 16	CHI 2	FON 2	TXS 2				1st	507
2004				HMS 18	PHX 2	MOT 5	INDY 8	TXS 14	RIR 8	KAN 12	NSH 8	MIL DNS	MCH 7	KTY 13	PIK 20	NAZ 9	CHI 7	FON 8	TXS 6				10th	355
2005		Panoz		HMS 16	PHX 12	STP 6		INDY 24	TXS 11	RIR 22	KAN 18	NSH 6	MIL 13	MCH 19	KTY 23	PIK 16	SNM 7	CHI 19	WGL 1	FON 10			13th	321
		Dallara					MOT 21
2006			Honda	HMS 5		MOT 2	INDY 6		TXS 2	RIR 11	KAN 4	NSH 1	MIL 10	MCH 16	KTY 2		CHI 2						4th	460
		Panoz			STP 2			WGL 1								SNM 4
2007		Dallara		HMS 2	STP 2	MOT 4	KAN 4	INDY 2	MIL 4	TXS 12	IOW 10	RIR 2	WGL 1	NSH 1	MDO 1	MCH 10	KTY 2	SNM 1	DET 8	CHI 2			2nd	624
2008				HMS 1	STP 22	MOT^1 3	LBH^1 DNP	KAN 3	INDY 1	MIL 2	TXS 1	IOW 4	RIR 3	WGL 11	NSH 1	MDO 3	EDM 1	KTY 1	SNM 12	DET 5	CHI 2		1st	646
2009				STP 16	LBH 15	KAN 1	INDY 6	MIL 1	TXS 3	IOW 5	RIR 1	WGL 3	TOR 4	EDM 3	KTY 7	MDO 1	SNM 13	CHI 2	MOT 1	HMS 3			2nd	605
2010				SAO 6	STP 18	ALA 2	LBH 4	KAN 1	INDY 5	TXS 4	IOW 6	WGL 8	TOR 20	EDM 1	MDO 5	SNM 2	CHI 8	KTY 7	MOT 6	HMS 1			3rd	547
2011				STP 16	ALA 2	LBH 18	SAO 12	INDY 5	TXS 2	TXS 2	MIL 7	IOW 3	TOR 2	EDM 23	MDO 1	NHM 3	SNM 5	BAL 5	MOT 1	KTY 3	LVS C		3rd	518
2012		Dallara DW12		STP 2	ALA 2	LBH 23	SAO 17	INDY 2	DET 1	TXS 18	MIL 11	IOW 4	TOR 25	EDM 10	MDO 1	SNM 13	BAL 4	FON 3					3rd	435
2013				STP 5	ALA 2	LBH 11	SAO 18	INDY 14	DET 4	DET 4	TXS 23	MIL 6	IOW 16	POC 1	TOR 1	TOR 1	MDO 7	SNM 15	BAL 19	HOU 1	HOU 2	FON 5	1st	577
2014			Chevrolet	STP 4	LBH 12	ALA 3	IMS 15	INDY 29	DET 11	DET 4	TXS 5	HOU 19	HOU 18	POC 5	IOW 4	TOR 5	TOR 7	MDO 1	MIL 4	SNM 1	FON 2		3rd	604
2015				STP 15	NLA 11	LBH 1	ALA 3	IMS 10	INDY 4	DET 5	DET 20	TXS 1	TOR 8	FON 6	MIL 7	IOW 18	MDO 4	POC 9	SNM 1				1st^3	556
2016				STP 7	PHX 1	LBH 2	ALA 10	IMS 7	INDY 8	DET 19	DET 5	ROA 22	IOW 3	TOR 8	MDO 22	POC 6	TXS 19	WGL 1	SNM 17				6th	477
2017	Chip Ganassi Racing		Honda	STP 3	LBH 4	ALA 2	PHX 5	IMS 2	INDY 32	DET 2	DET 6	TXS 9	ROA 1	IOW 8	TOR 10	MDO 9	POC 6	GTW 2	WGL 2	SNM 4			3rd	621
2018	PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing			STP 6	PHX 4	LBH 11	ALA 6	IMS 2	INDY 3	DET 1	DET 4	TXS 1	ROA 3	IOW 12	TOR 1	MDO 5	POC 3	GTW 3	POR 5	SNM 2			1st	678
2019				STP 2	COA 13	ALA 2	LBH 3	IMS 2	INDY 17	DET 22	DET 1	TXS 17	ROA 5	TOR 2	IOW 2	MDO 1	POC 2	GTW 20	POR 16	LAG 3			4th	578
2020				TXS 1	IMS 1	ROA 1	ROA 12	IOW 2	IOW 5	INDY 2	GTW 1	GTW 5	MDO 10	MDO 10	IMS 9	IMS 8	STP 3						1st	537

* Season still in progress.

• ¹ Races run on same day
• ² Non-points paying, exhibition race
• ³ Tied on points with Juan Pablo Montoya, won on tie-break

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2003	Panoz	Toyota	4	17	Chip Ganassi Racing
2004			13	8
2005			13	24
2006	Dallara	Honda	4	6
2007			4	2
2008			1	1
2009			5	6
2010			6	5
2011			2	5
2012			15	2
2013			16	14
2014		Chevrolet	11	29
2015			1	4
2016			13	8
2017		Honda	1	32
2018			9	3
2019			18	17
2020			2	2

Complete American Le Mans Series results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos.	Pts
1999	Doran Matthews Racing	LMP	Ferrari 333 SP	Ferrari F310E 4.0 V12	SEB	RAL	MOS	SON	POR	PET 15	LAG	LVS				NC	0
2008	de Ferran Motorsports	LMP2	Acura ARX-01b	Acura 3.4 V8	SEB	STP	LBH	MMP	LIM	MDO	ROA	MOS	DET	PET 5	LAG	28th	18
2009	de Ferran Motorsports	LMP1	Acura ARX-02a	Acura 4.0 V8	SEB 6	STP	LBH	MMP	LIM	MDO	ROA	MOS	PET 9	LAG		28th	12

Rolex Sports Car Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Pos.	Pts
2004	CGR Grand Am	DP	Riley Mk XI	Lexus 4.3 V8	DAY 6	HOM	PHX	MTT	WGL	DAY	MDO	WGL	HOM	VIR	BAR					45th	55
	CompUSA Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates															CAL 3
2005	Target Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	DP	Riley Mk XI	Lexus 4.3 V8	DAY 6	HOM	CAL	LAG	MTT	WGL	BAR	WGL	DAY	MDO	PHX	WGL	VIR	MEX		77th	25
2006	Target Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	DP	Riley Mk XI	Lexus 5.0 V8	DAY 1	MEX	HOM	LBH	VIR	LAG	PHX	LIM	WGL	DAY	BAR	WGL	SON	MMP 4		63rd	63
2007	Target Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	DP	Riley Mk XI	Lexus 5.0 V8	DAY 21	MEX	HOM	VIR	LAG	WGL	MDO	DAY	IOW	BAR	CGV	WGL	SON	MMP		115th	10
2008	Target Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	DP	Riley Mk XI	Lexus 5.0 V8	DAY 18	HOM	MEX	VIR	LAG	LIM	WGL	MDO	DAY	BAR	CGV	WGL	SON	NJE	MMP	85th	13
2009	Target Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	DP	Riley Mk XI	Lexus 5.0 V8	DAY 5	VIR	NJE	LAG	WGL	MDO	DAY	BAR	WGL	CGV	MMP	HOM				50th	26
2010	Target Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	DP	Riley Mk XX	BMW 5.0 V8	DAY 15	HOM	BAR	VIR	LIM	WGL	MDO	DAY	NJE	WGL	CGV	MMP				65th	16
2011	Target Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	DP	Riley Mk XX	BMW 5.0 V8	DAY 2	HOM	BAR	VIR	LIM	LAG	WGL	MDO	DAY	NJE	WGL	CGV	MMP			32nd	32
2012	Target Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	DP	Riley Mk XXVI	BMW 5.0 V8	DAY 4	BAR	HOM	NJE	DET	MDO	ROA	WGL	IMS 4	WGL	CGV	LAG	LIM			26th	56
2013	Target Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	DP	Riley Mk XXVI	BMW 5.0 V8	DAY 11	COA	BAR	RAL	DET	MDO	WGL	IMS	ROA	KAN	LAG 3	LIM				35th	50

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points
2014	Chip Ganassi Racing	P	Ford EcoBoost Riley DP	Ford Ecoboost 3.5 L V6 Turbo	DAY 8	SEB 6	LBH	LGA	DET	WGL	MOS	IMS	ELK	COA	PET 3		26th	81
2015	Chip Ganassi Racing	P	Ford EcoBoost Riley DP	Ford Ecoboost 3.5 L V6 Turbo	DAY 1	SEB 4	LBH	LGA	DET	WGL	MOS	ELK	COA	PET 2			13th	98
2016	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	P	Ford EcoBoost Riley DP	Ford Ecoboost 3.5 L V6 Turbo	DAY 7				DET								29th	25
		GTLM	Ford GT	Ford 3.5 L EcoBoost V6		SEB 5	LBH	LGA		WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	COA	PET 7	21st	52
2017	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	GTLM	Ford GT	Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6	DAY 10	SEB 4	LBH	COA	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	LGA	PET 8		15th	73
2018	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	GTLM	Ford GT	Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6	DAY 1	SEB 4	LBH	MDO	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	LGA	PET 5		11th	89
2019	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	GTLM	Ford GT	Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6	DAY 4	SEB 6	LBH	MDO	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	LGA	PET 2		17th	85
2020	Konica Minolta Cadillac	DPi	Cadillac DPi-V.R	Cadillac 5.5 L V8	DAY 1	DAY	SEB	ELK	ATL	MDO	PET 1	LGA	SEB 7				16th	94
2021	Cadillac Chip Ganassi Racing	DPi	Cadillac DPi-V.R	Cadillac 5.5 L V8	DAY 5	SEB	MDO	DET	WGL	MOS	ELK	LGA	LBH	PET			6th*	284*

^* Season still in progress.

24 Hours of Daytona results

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2004	CGR Grand Am	Scott Pruett Max Papis Jimmy Morales	Riley Mk XI-Lexus	DP	502	10th	6th
2005	Target Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	Casey Mears Darren Manning	Riley Mk. XI-Lexus	DP	694	6th	6th
2006	Target Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	Dan Wheldon Casey Mears	Riley Mk. XI-Lexus	DP	734	1st	1st
2007	Target Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	Dan Wheldon Memo Rojas	Riley Mk. XI-Lexus	DP	538	DNF	DNF
2008	Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	Dan Wheldon Salvador Durán Alex Lloyd	Riley Mk. XI-Lexus	DP	515	DNF	DNF
2009	Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates	Dario Franchitti Alex Lloyd	Riley Mk. XI-Lexus	DP	731	5th	5th
2010	Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates	Juan Pablo Montoya Dario Franchitti Jamie McMurray	Riley Mk. XX-BMW	DP	249	DNF	DNF
2011	Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates	Juan Pablo Montoya Dario Franchitti Jamie McMurray	Riley Mk. XX-BMW	DP	721	2nd	2nd
2012	Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates	Juan Pablo Montoya Dario Franchitti Jamie McMurray	Riley Mk. XXVI-BMW	DP	760	4th	4th
2013	Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates	Dario Franchitti Jamie McMurray Joey Hand	Riley Mk. XXVI-BMW	DP	594	DNF	DNF
2014	Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates	Tony Kanaan Kyle Larson Marino Franchitti	Riley Mk. XXVI-Ford	P	667	DNF	DNF
2015	Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates	Tony Kanaan Kyle Larson Jamie McMurray	Riley Mk. XXVI-Ford	P	740	1st	1st
2016	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Tony Kanaan Kyle Larson Jamie McMurray	Riley Mk. XXVI-Ford	P	708	13th	7th
2017	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	Ford GT	GTLM	624	27th	10th
2018	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	Ford GT	GTLM	783	11th	1st
2019	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	Ford GT	GTLM	570	13th	4th
2020	Konica Minolta Cadillac	Ryan Briscoe Kamui Kobayashi Renger van der Zande	Cadillac DPi-V.R	DPi	833	1st	1st
2021	Cadillac Chip Ganassi Racing	Kevin Magnussen Renger van der Zande	Cadillac DPi-V.R	DPi	807	5th	5th

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2016	Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	Ford GT	GTE Pro	340	20th	3rd
2017	Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	Ford GT	GTE Pro	337	23rd	7th
2018	Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	Ford GT	GTE Pro	309	39th	14th
2019	Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	Ford GT	GTE Pro	341	24th	5th

12 Hours of Bathurst results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2020	Castrol Racing R-Motorsport	Jake Dennis Rick Kelly	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	GT3 Pro	308	16th	9th

V8 Supercar Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

V8 Supercar results
Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	Pos.	Pts
2010	Kelly Racing	Holden VE Commodore	YMC R1	YMC R2	BHR R3	BHR R4	ADE R5	ADE R6	HAM R7	HAM R8	QLD R9	QLD R10	WIN R11	WIN R12	HDV R13	HDV R14	TOW R15	TOW R16	PHI Q	PHI R17	BAT R18	SUR R19 20	SUR R20 Ret	SYM R21	SYM R22	SAN R23	SAN R24	SYD R25	SYD R26	NC	0†

† Not Eligible for points

International Race of Champions

(key) (Bold – Pole position. * – Most laps led.)

International Race of Champions results
Year	Make	1	2	3	4	Pos.	Pts	Ref
2004	Pontiac	DAY 8	TEX 9	RCH 9	ATL 8	10th	26	[26]

Personal life

Dixon married Emma Davies, a former Welsh and British 800 m champion, in February 2008.[27] They have two daughters, Poppy born in 2009 and Tilly born in 2011,[28] and a son Kit, born on 27 December 2019.[29]

Dixon has been a long-term resident of Indianapolis, Indiana, where the mayor declared 24 September 2018 "Scott Dixon Day" in the city following his fifth IndyCar title.[30]

In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Dixon was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to motorsport.[31] He had earlier been appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2009 New Year Honours.[32]

References

1. Brown, Nathan (6 June 2020). "Scott Dixon dominates at Texas Motor Speedway, wins IndyCar's return to action". IndyStar. Indianapolis Star. Retrieved 8 June 2020. The victory gave the 39-year-old New Zealander a win in 18 seasons, tying an all-time mark held by A.J. Foyt, while extending Dixon’s record of consecutive seasons with a victory to 16.
2. Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
3. Jim Clark Trophy Archived 1 May 2001 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Premier motorsport awards to Dixon, Lawson, Hunt and McKechnie". Motorsport NZ. Retrieved 27 May 2019. Dixon has been presented with the Jim Clark trophy three times previously (1999, 2001 and 2004).
5. Stanley, Ben (17 September 2017). "Scott Dixon's journey from his Nissan Sentra to motorsport legend". Stuff.
6. "Champcarworldseries_biography:Scott Dixon". Archived from the original on 6 September 2006.
7. Press Democrat Staff Writer Archived 7 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
8. Black Bullet Profile :Scott Dixon
9. This Is Your Life, TV1, 21 September 2008
10. NZ_Formula_First_Graduates_- _The_'International_Boys' Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
11. Stephan Johansson Driver Management
12. Dixon loses after running out of fuel Archived 18 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
13. "Six-time champion Scott Dixon driven by his IndyCar failures, not success". Stuff (website). 5 November 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
14. "Dixon relieved and ecstatic after title win". The New Zealand Herald. 8 September 2008. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
15. Dixon_standing_tall_after_second_title
16. Chip Ganassi Racing Review
17. "Dixon Snatches Detroit Indy Grand Prix Pole". Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
18. Panther Racing Signs Wheldon
19. Dario Franchitti heading back to IndyCar
20. "Vili wins supreme Halberg Award". Stuff.co.nz. 3 February 2009. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
21. NZ Post, Champions of World Motorsport Archived 3 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine
22. "IndyCar Driver Dixon Fined, Placed on Probation". Fox Sports. Associated Press. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
23. Marot, Michael (21 May 2017). "DIXON TAKES 3RD INDY POLE WITH FASTEST SPEEDS IN 21 YEARS". Associated Press Auto Racing. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
24. "Dixon Taken Out Again". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
25. Martin, Bruce (16 October 2020). "Dixon Eyeing rare Wire-to-Wire championship run". IndyCar.Com. IndyCar.Com News.
26. "Scott Dixon − 2004 IROC Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
27. "Emma Davies Dixon Pictures: Photos of Scott Dixon's Wife". Heavy.co. Sports. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
28. Baby Makes Three
29. "Scott Dixon casts a mythic shadow over the IndyCar series". NBC Sports. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
30. Malsher, David (24 September 2018). "Indianapolis mayor proclaims Scott Dixon Day in Indy". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
31. "Queen's Birthday Honours 2019". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
32. "New Year honours list 2009". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2017.

External links

• IndyCar Driver Page
• Scott Dixon Biography in US
• IRL Profile: Scott Dixon
• 2008 Stats
• An article about Graham Chronofighter Oversize Scott Dixon watch
• The Greatest 33
• The Greatest 33 Profile