Nine of the 17 races on the 2018 IndyCar schedule are now in the books. How do the 20 full-time drivers in the sport stack up against one another?
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon won for the second time in the 2018 IndyCar season by winning the DXC Technology at Texas Motor Speedway. In fact, he won for the second time in the last three races, as he also won the first race of the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit.
By winning the ninth race of the 17-race 2018 season in his #9 Honda on the high banks of the four-turn, 1.44-mile Texas Motor Speedway oval in Fort Worth, Texas, Dixon became the third different driver who has won more than one race this season. He became the first Honda driver to pull it off.
The other two drivers who have won more than one race so far this season are Team Penske teammates Josef Newgarden and Will Power. Newgarden won at ISM Raceway and Barber Motorsports Park in his #1 Chevrolet, while Power won at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in the Indianapolis 500 in his #12 Chevrolet.
Newgarden and Power are the only two Chevrolet drivers who have even managed to win one race so far this season, and they have each won twice. Meanwhile, four Honda drivers have combined to win the other five races.
How did Dixon’s victory and everything else that happened in the 248-lap race at Texas Motor Speedway affect the IndyCar Driver Power Rankings? Here are the formulated IndyCar Driver Power Rankings and the non-formulated IndyCar Driver Power Rankings following the ninth of 17 races on the 2018 IndyCar schedule.
To see how the formulated IndyCar Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.