The six-time IndyCar champion produced his 57th career win with another virtuoso drive at Long Beach that owed as much to his strategist Mike Hull as his sublime fuel-saving skills.
You can read all about the strategy here, with Hull revealing the lap that Dixon needed to get to in order to make his final pitstop and have enough fuel to reach the finish. Also, we should tip our hat to Honda, which again showed its economical prowess and swept the entire podium.
“But I knew they would burn their tires off pretty quickly with kind of 10-lap offset. I think they had to close a 10- or 12-second lap. The abuse was coming thick and fast. “I think we could have had the status quo there with Josef. We had over a hundred seconds of OT left. I think he was down to the 20s by the time he even got to me. “Even to get that out, they weren't trimmed out, we were trimmed , that would have made it difficult to pass. Josef, I think he burnt his tires up.
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