IndyCar: Will Scott Dixon win his sixth Honda Indy 200 in 2019?

By Asher Fair | Jul 24, 2019

LEXINGTON, OH - AUGUST 03: Scott Dixon of New Zealand drives the #9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara Chevrolet during the Verizon IndyCar Series Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on August 3, 2014 in Lexington, Ohio. (Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty Images) /

Scott Dixon has failed in each of his four attempts to become a six-time winner of the annual IndyCar race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, the Honda Indy 200. Will he succeed in his fifth attempt this Sunday?

Not including the CART and Champ Car races at the track, a total of 12 IndyCar races have been held at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The track was added to the schedule in the 2007 season, and it has hosted one race, the Honda Indy 200, in each season that has taken place since then.

Only one driver has won more than one IndyCar race at the track. That lone driver, Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon, has won five races at the track. In fact, this has been the case for five years now.

Dixon won five of the first eight races at the 13-turn, 2.258-mile (3.634-kilometer) Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. He won the inaugural IndyCar race at the track in the 2007 season, and it appeared that he could not lose at the track in odd years after going on to win there in the 2009 and 2011 seasons as well.

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Dixon then secured his fourth career victory at the track in the 2012 season before earning one of the most impressive victories if not the most impressive victory of his entire IndyCar career there in the 2014 season after starting in 22nd (last) place.

Yet in each of his first four attempts to become a six-time Honda Indy 200 winner, the 39-year-old New Zealander has failed.

When Dixon last won the Honda Indy 200, only four drivers had ever won it. The other three drivers who had won it at that time were Ryan Briscoe, who won it in the 2008 season, Dario Franchitti, who won it in the 2010 season, and Charlie Kimball, who won it in the 2013 season.

Four different drivers have now won it since Dixon last did so. Graham Rahal won it in the 2015 season while Dixon finished in fourth place before Simon Pagenaud won it in the 2016 season while Dixon crashed out and finished in 22nd. Josef Newgarden then won it in the 2017 season while Dixon finished in ninth, and Alexander Rossi won it in the 2018 season while Dixon finished in fifth.

So despite the fact that Dixon has tried and failed to become a six-time Honda Indy 200 winner on four different occasions already, there is no other driver who has even managed to win the race twice yet.

Will Dixon become a six-time Honda Indy 200 this Sunday?

There is no doubt that Dixon is the favorite to win the Honda Indy 200 whenever IndyCar visits Mid-Ohio Sports Course. This has been the case for at least the last decade, and it always will be as long as Dixon is driving.

In 12 career Honda Indy 200 starts, Dixon has earned five victories, six podium finishes, nine top five finishes and 11 top nine finishes. He also finished in 12th place in the race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the 2001 CART season, and he finished in fifth in the race at the track in the 2002 CART season.

Expect Dixon to finish somewhere in the top five and to be a serious factor in the mix for the race victory as the laps wind down in this Sunday’s race and he makes his fifth career attempt to become the first six-time Honda Indy 200 winner while every other driver in the field strives to become either the ninth Honda Indy 200 winner or just the second two-time Honda Indy 200 winner.

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Will Scott Dixon become a six-time Honda Indy 200 winner this weekend? The race, which is the 13th of 17 races on the 2019 IndyCar schedule, is scheduled to take place this Sunday, July 28, and it is set to be broadcast live on NBC beginning at 4:00 p.m. ET, so be sure not to miss it.