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The Marshall Pruett Podcast

MP 1106: The Day At Indy, May 24, with Scott Dixon

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

Marshall Pruett

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

It's the short-form Day At Indy show where we catch up someone from the Indy 500. Our guest is polesitter Scott Dixon from Chip Ganassi Racing who, while sounding like soul singer Barry White, takes us inside his crazy run to pole, the mental aspect of how the performance came together, how some of the biggest teams can struggle at Indy, and what fans can look forward to on Sunday's big race.  Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast

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0:00.0

Scott Dixon, good Lord, man who, I don't know, ripped the heart out of Colton Hardy yesterday,

0:10.3

as I wrote, and Reina's V.K. might have been a little bit grumpy, but the two of you took

0:15.2

something, quote, took something from him. How are you feeling other than having some sort of nasally something that's come along?

0:23.2

How are you feeling the next morning knowing that, yeah, all right, this Chip Canassie team,

0:27.7

we're showing that we got some speed. Yeah, it was definitely cool, man. You know, obviously,

0:34.7

the goal of last week was to try and get all of the cars into the fast line.

0:39.5

And, you know, the team did a tremendous job to pull that off, you know, and that's every team's dream, you know, for all those with Ganesi cars.

0:46.9

So I think Chip was actually finally happy for a change, which was good to see.

0:51.5

But, you know, it was definitely tense, you know, the first day going out first,

0:55.7

something I don't think I've done from, from memory, but, you know, to do that as well,

1:02.3

and especially with the current kind of formula of car where, you know, you don't want to rewrite,

1:07.0

you kind of want the car to be cold, at least from our team's standpoint, you know, so, you know, it takes a while to get ready to go back out again. You've got to nail that first one, and conditions were definitely ideal. So definitely a lot of stress, and then to go out last for the fast nine after seeing, I was pretty relaxed, actually, until I saw, you know, the ECR cars run, and then once I so finally heard as one. I was like, wow, I'm not ECR cars run and then once I saw finally

1:28.3

Hurdus one I was like wow I'm not sure we're going to really have enough and then once I saw

1:33.3

that first big number on the dash I was like oh we're within a fight here you know and now

1:37.3

it was just trying to keep the thing on the track and my god it was definitely loose and it was

1:43.3

low on down force but you, you know, Canon and everybody

1:45.8

on the team did a tremendous job.

1:48.0

One of the notes that folks have asked about and inquired about was, I guess, maybe a

1:53.7

radio exchange of Cannon, maybe, Michael Cannon, your race engineer trying to keep you

1:58.7

updated as to what was going on with some of the other cars, Carpenter included, and it may be any wing angle adjustments, and you basically waving that off, or, you know, not wanting to have all that information poured into your ears.

2:11.0

As if going out and doing laps at 232 miles an hour around an oval isn't a strange enough occupation the average

2:20.2

person cannot grasp maybe share some insights dixie on the information management side right maybe

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