Scott Dixon

Scott Dixon (born July 22, 1980) is from New Zealand. He drives for Ganassi and is the 2008 Indy 500 winner

CART
Dixon began his CART career driving for PacWest Racing in 2001. Dixon won in only his 3rd start at Nazareth Speedway. It was his first oval start in the CART series. He also became the youngest winner in the history of American open wheel racing at 20 years, 9 months, and 14 days old. He finished 8th in points and won the Rookie of the Year. The team ran out of cash in the middle of the 2002 season and Ganassi took him on as a third car. Dixon struggled the remainder of the season with Ganassi.

IRL
In 2003 Ganassi went to the IRL with Penske and Andretti-Green. Dixon won in his first career start in the IRL at Homestead. Dixon won 2 more races in 2003 and went on to win a heavily contested championship battle. Unfortiniately Dixon was unable to celebrate following a savage crash in the season finale by Kenny Brack the celebration was muted. The next week Dixon's team mate Tony Renna was killed in a testing crash at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway right after Dixon finished testing the car.

Dixon went all of 2004 and most of 2005 winless until his win at Watkins Glen the second to the last race of the season in 2005. Dixon took 6 victories the next 2 seasons.but finished 2nd in a thrilling points battle in 2007.

IndyCar Series
With the unified series in 2008 competition was much greater but Dixon won a series high 6 races including a dominating win from the pole at Inianapolis. Following the 2008 season Dan Wheldon was removed as his team mate and his new team mate was returning Dario Franchitti. In 2009 Dixon won 5 races but struggled in the first few races which costed him from beating Franchitti.

Dixon finished in third place in the season standings the next two seasons winning 3 races in 2010 and two races in 2011. Dixon will return to Ganassi for his 11th season with the team in 2012.

Dixon has 1 CART win, 10 IRL wins, and 16 Indycar Series wins.