Stefan Johansson Driver Management
Scott Dixon
Hometown: Auckland, New Zealand
Residence: Indianapolis
Height/weight: 5-10/150
Scott Dixon has spent most of his life behind the wheel of a race car.
The son of two dirt-track racers, Dixon climbed behind the wheel of a car for the first time when he was 13 and won the championship in the New Zealand Formula Vee after being granted a special license to compete.
He was the then-youngest winner of a major open-wheel event (Nazareth in 2002) and won the 2003 IndyCar Series championship with Target Chip Ganassi Racing. Dixon was born in Australia but is a New Zealand citizen.
Away from the car, Dixon likes to spend time at his Indianapolis home or on the nearby Geist Reservoir on his boat. He also has a weakness for gadgets.
Indycar Series HighlightsFirst start: March 2, 2003 (Homestead-Miami Speedway)
First victory: March 2, 2003 (Homestead-Miami Speedway)
First pole: April 13, 2003 (Twin Ring Motegi)
2007
• Winning four races. Second in the IndyCar Series Championship.
2006
• Won at Watkins Glen International for the second year in a row and at the 1.33-mile Nashville Superspeedway.
• Finished fourth in the standings for Target Chip Ganassi Racing, 15 points behind champion Sam Hornish Jr.
• Was only IndyCar Series driver to be running at the finish in all 14 events.
• Completed a series-high 2,504 of a possible 2,510 laps. Led nine races.
2005
• Finished 13th in standings with one victory (Watkins Glen) four other top-10 finishes.
• Started 13th and finished 24th at 89th Indianapolis 500.
2004
• Finished 10th in standings with best finish of second at Phoenix. Scored two top-five finishes and 10 top-10 finishes in 15 starts.
• Earned two Formula 1 tests with Williams-BMW.
2003
• Clinched the IndyCar Series championship for Target Chip Ganassi Racing with three victories (Homestead-Miami Speedway, his first IndyCar Series start, Pikes Peak and Richmond).
• Earned five pole positions (Japan, Richmond, Kansas, Nashville, Nazareth).
• Became the first driver in IndyCar Series history to lead consecutive laps over the course of three races.Led the final 84 laps en route to a victory at Pikes Peak and led all 206 laps of the rain-shortened event Richmond. Led the first 53 laps at Kansas for a total of 343 consecutive laps led.
2002
• Finished 13th in CART point standings, scoring three top-five finishes, including a second place at Denver.
• Began the season with PacWest Racing, moved to Target Chip Ganassi Racing before Milwaukee and finished season with team.
• Announced Oct. 23 he would compete in IndyCar Series for Target Chip Ganassi Racing in 2003.
2001
• Won CART Jim Trueman Rookie of the Year Award and finished eighth in CART point standings with victory at Nazareth.
• Youngest driver to win in any major open-wheel series with victory in 2001 at Nazareth at age 20 years, 9 months, 14 days.
• Scored six top-five finishes and completed a series-high 2,521 of a possible 2,610 laps.
2000
• Won Dayton Indy Lights championship, winning six of 12 races driving for PacWest Lights team.
• Led series-high 228 laps.
1999
• Competed in first season of North American competition with Johansson Motorsports in Dayton Indy Lights series, winning at Chicago, where he led every lap from the pole.
• Finished fifth in championship and finished second in the Rookie of the Year standings, one point behind Jonny Kane.
Early Career
• Competed in Formula Vee, Formula Ford and Formula Holden in New Zealand and Australia.Won Australian-based Formula Holden championship for Formula 3000, New Zealand Formula Ford Class I championship, New Zealand Formula Ford Class II championship and New Zealand Formula Vee championship (age 13).
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