Dixon extends his lead – and closes on Mario Andretti

Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s flat 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course and Texas Motor Speedway’s banked 1.5-mile oval are about as different as two tracks can get. Yet these venues, which have hosted the opening two races of the hugely delayed, disrupted and shuffled 2020 IndyCar calendar, have seen Scott Dixon and his Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara-Honda in imperious form on race day. Consequently, for the first time in his 20-year IndyCar career, the five-time champion has opened his campaign with back-to-back wins.

While Dixon’s Grand Prix of Indianapolis triumph, which broke the Simon Pagenaud/Will Power stranglehold on this event since its inception in 2014, was not quite so dauntingly dominant as his Texas success, the few (maybe only two) drivers who might have stopped him had their dreams dismantled by misfortune.

Early in the race, Team Penske’s Chevrolet-powered polesitter Power led from Meyer Shank Racing’s Jack Harvey, who had excelled in qualifying at the track where he and the team had scored their first podium in the wet 14 months earlier. They were tracked by Graham Rahal’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Dallara-Honda, which had beaten the fastest