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Dixon surges from 13th to fifth, McLaughlin P6

by Zane Shackleton
May 2, 2022
in IndyCar, International, News
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A clever strategy call played into Scott Dixon’s hands as the Kiwi climbed from 13th to finish the IndyCar Grand Prix of Alabama in fifth.

Dixon ran the faster alternative tyres during the middle stanza of the race. By overcutting the field at the second stop, he consolidated his second top-five result of the season.

“I think if we start a bit further up it would make our days a whole lot easier,” he said.

“These mistakes that we are making in qualifying are just not acceptable and it is making race days much harder,”

Scott McLaughlin was sixth at the chequered flag, losing a spot to Dixon after a costly lock-up.

“I thought it was pretty solid,” McLaughlin said. “Our goal all year is to keep getting in the top seven.

“We are up with the big guys up the front.”

Pato O’Ward earned his third IndyCar race win. The McLaren driver pulled off a daring overtake on Rinus Veekay in the final stint to move into the lead; a position he would not relinquish.

“I knew if I had the opportunity, it would have been right then and there,” O’Ward said.

O’Ward is currently going through some inter-team bitterness as he works out a contract extension to stay with McLaren.

“It just sucks to have to go to war,” he said.

Alex Palou put himself between O’Ward and Veekay after the final round of pitstops. He held onto finish P2, making him the new championship leader.

McLaughlin is three points behind Palou in second, while Dixon is 31 points adrift in sixth.

IndyCar now enters its biggest month of the year: May.

The series heads to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for two races, including the hallowed Indy 500 towards the end of the month.

PosNameGap
1Pato O’Ward
2Alex Palou+0.98s
3Rinus VeeKay+12.482s
4Will Power+15.262s
5Scott Dixon+22.83s
6Scott McLaughlin+24.065s
7Romain Grosjean+24.516s
8Graham Rahal+31.918s
9Alexander Rossi+33.25s
10Colton Herta+33.511s
11Simon Pagenaud+33.742s
12Marcus Ericsson+34.474s
13Takuma Sato+34.914s
14Josef Newgarden+35.681s
15Christian Lundgaard+37.042s
16Felix Rosenqvist+41.615s
17Devlin DeFrancesco+42.451s
18Jack Harvey+1m02.327s
19Conor Daly+1m03.295s
20David Malukas+1m03.744s
21Hélio Castroneves+1m04.533s
22Kyle Kirkwood+1 lap
23Dalton Kellett+1 lap
24Jimmie Johnson+1 lap
25Callum Ilott+2 laps
26Tatiana Calderón+2 laps

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