Nice One SCOTT DIXON

Armco Bender · 2 Mar 2003, 20:29 (Ref:522644)

Scott Dixon became just the third driver to win in his first IRL IndyCarTM Series start, holding off Gil de Ferran to capture the Toyota Indy 300 this afternoon at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Dixon edged a charging de Ferran by .5752 of a second for the victory in his No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Panoz G Force/Toyota/Firestone. Dixon led by more than two seconds with 18 laps remaining, but de Ferran put his No. 6 Marlboro Team Penske Dallara/Toyota/Firestone into overdrive in an effort to catch Dixon.
Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves finished third in his No. 3 Marlboro Team Penske Dallara/Toyota/Firestone. MBNA Pole winner Tony Kanaan was fourth in his No. 11 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone.

Great drive from the Kiwi,F1 here he comes

tanalised · 2 Mar 2003, 20:30 (Ref:522645)

Well done Scott on winning the first IRL race of the season

Pity no-one was on hand at Homestead to witness it!

Sato san · 2 Mar 2003, 20:50 (Ref:522672)

good stuff ............its good to get the season underway !

gttouring · 2 Mar 2003, 20:53 (Ref:522674)

sad but such is IRL-nice hob and he got passed readily by the Penske juggernaught- what happened to HORnISH?

Jay · 2 Mar 2003, 21:11 (Ref:522699)

Come on now, Criticise the IRL all you want, but the childish bashing is really pointless. This isn't 7th Gear.

tanalised · 2 Mar 2003, 21:35 (Ref:522733)

So Toyota start out with a clean sweep of the Podium.
1
2
3

Honda not far behind.
Ominous signs for the season

Snrub · 2 Mar 2003, 21:54 (Ref:522760)

Hornish is

, his car isn't fast enough.

jklein6419 · 2 Mar 2003, 22:00 (Ref:522771)

good to see an aussie winning

R · 2 Mar 2003, 22:13 (Ref:522794)

He's not an Aussie!

jklein6419 · 2 Mar 2003, 22:21 (Ref:522807)

hes from new zealand exuse me

Armco Bender · 2 Mar 2003, 22:29 (Ref:522817)

A Kiwi = a person from NZ
NZers are much better racing drivers than Aussies

Valve Bounce · 2 Mar 2003, 22:30 (Ref:522819)

For awhile, I thought Armco was talking about Chris Dixon

Armco Bender · 2 Mar 2003, 22:37 (Ref:522832)

His boat never sunk

The Snout · 2 Mar 2003, 22:40 (Ref:522838)

That's another area NZ can now share with Aussie's.

Matthopps · 2 Mar 2003, 22:42 (Ref:522841)

Well done Scott! and he's in my vrace.com team as well!

racer69 · 3 Mar 2003, 00:00 (Ref:522931)

Dixon was born in Australia though.

It was a great drive, and all in all a pretty good race.

fordtc87 · 3 Mar 2003, 01:02 (Ref:522992)

When real drivers defect, they do really well in the IRL? I wonder why that is??

fordtc87 · 3 Mar 2003, 01:04 (Ref:522994)

Never make it in F1. Ask Tomas Schekter about the IRL leading to F1. Not a good path to take.

power&glory · 3 Mar 2003, 01:19 (Ref:523017)

Quote:

Originally posted by Armco Bender
Great drive from the Kiwi,F1 here he comes

Formula One?? Do you honestly believe that there is that much of a lack of talent in the rest of the world's many many formulae that grand prix teams are going to look to an entirely oval based series for talent? You must be kidding? Scotty knows well that the only series in North America in which he could prove himself worthy of F1 is Champ Car! Why do you think he didn't even raise his arm out of the cockpit when he won, or celebrate with his crew and pump his fists and hug people? It's not just because he is quiet- natures, it's because he doesn't want to be in an all- oval series! That's why his dad and Pook tried so hard to get him out of that contract, because, although the other drivers may enjoy driving and having close competition with one another in the series and not have any higher aspirations, Scott Dixon knows that the IndyCar series is not the place for him to be at this point in his career. He's a damn good driver, so he'll win, but don't think he sees this as any sort of stepping stone.

marcus · 3 Mar 2003, 01:37 (Ref:523032)

great effort by Dixon , he drove fantastically and was there when it counted.

in fact a good effort by all I think , only 3 retirements in the race was a good start to the season and bodes well for the rest of the year.

camcartfan · 3 Mar 2003, 02:12 (Ref:523077)

Good post power&glory. Very very true.

tanalised · 3 Mar 2003, 04:51 (Ref:523161)

gotta agree with you Power and Glory. Still here he is for this year at least and he's started on the right note

moffman · 3 Mar 2003, 10:50 (Ref:523303)

Quote:

Originally posted by Armco Bender
A Kiwi = a person from NZ
NZers are much better racing drivers than Aussies

Surely you jest. Kiwis are better at nothing than Aussies.

downforce · 3 Mar 2003, 13:10 (Ref:523404)

First IRL race ive ever seen LIVE...quite interesting actually!

Gr8 drive by Dixon...was wondering if de Ferran would make use of Foyt Jr and get past him.

Please explain how they zoom images of the drivers onto the circuit?

Down F0rce · 3 Mar 2003, 13:13 (Ref:523407)

computers, probably. they would layer the image of the driver onto the live feed, or something along those lines.

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