Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s six-time IndyCar champion and 2008 Indy 500 winner delivered two laps over 234mph and even his fourth and slowest lap was faster than most drivers’ fastest efforts, and broke a four-way tie for second most Indy poles in history. He now lies only one behind record holder Rick Mears.
His effort also leaves him with the second fastest qualifying run of all time at Indy, behind only Arie Luyendyk’s run in 1996, although because that was not set on Pole Day, it earned Luyendyk only 21st on the grid. Therefore Dixon today became the fastest pole-winner in Indy history.
