The Grand Prix of Long Beach showcased a fierce strategic battle of two separate two-stop strategies, with six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon making an extended stint work to capture his 57th victory.
The second points-paying round of the 2024 season saw 85 laps run around the 11-turn, 2.968-mile temporary street circuit, with an early caution – the only one of the day – proving to be the pivotal moment that altered strategies. When the yellow flag came out on lap 15, it split the field in half with how to attack the remainder of the race. For Dixon, who started eighth on a set of harder primary tires, dove to pit lane on lap 17 and made the switch to the softer alternate rubber on his No.
He looks at it as an average, so if he's making sure that he can run a fast lap, he gives up the fuel, but the next lap he works hard to economize the effort to make that happen without losing a lot of time on the racetrack. Someday people will look back at Scott Dixon and realize how special he is.” Rob Edwards, the Chief Operating Officer of Andretti Global and race strategist for Herta, already had a plan in place that wasn’t going to be deviated from.
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