Once Scott Dixon nailed the first three wins of this strange season that would ultimately run from June through to late October, who would have thought he’d score just one more win? His was an odd-shaped results tally in a necessarily peculiarly-shaped season.

Yet no one, not even prime championship contender Josef Newgarden, truly expected a man who had won five titles before to relinquish all of the 117-point lead he’d built up after the first race of the Gateway double-header. That’s not Dixon’s way, it’s not Chip Ganassi Racing’s way.

David Malsher-Lopez

David Malsher-Lopez is Motorsport.com’s U.S. editor, covering the NTT IndyCar Series and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Since completing journalism college in 1994, he has worked for Autosport, TRMG, Motor Sport, Autosport (again) and Racer, before joining Motorsport.com in 2015… where he has found himself enjoying a third spell writing for Autosport. Over the course of those 27 years, he has served as a journalist, sub-editor, features editor, deputy editor and editor. In 2015, he also wrote Will Power’s biography. David lives with his wife Sophia in California and when not writing about racing, he will be found reading about planes and classic cars, attending airshows, listening to a wide variety of music or watching cop shows from the ’70s. He intends to one day own a grand piano, an Airedale terrier and a vintage Pontiac. He doesn’t do Facebook and doesn’t understand Instagram but can be found @DavidMalsher on Twitter.

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