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Originally Posted by Por_sha911
Long Beach is regarded as the highest honor to win other than the Indy 500 but I don't enjoy tracks where passing is so limited.
Also, I think it is sickening to see IndyCar become a fuel economy contest instead of a speed contest. Dixon won fair and square based on the current rules but it is sad that the slower car wins. I want to see competition of driver skills and not mathematicians calculating fuel economy.
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From my perspective Dixon won with excellent strategy in that on the last lap his crew chief basically said stand on it. No one had gotten around him beforehand although it was possible Newgarden was going to be able to. But we'll never know as it might have been a close stand off of push-to-pass against each other and maybe Dixon would have run out of fuel. I doubt the Ganassi team is going to divulge how much fuel was in the tank.
I watched Dixon's line on the last few laps when the camera allowed. He was absolutely flawless. I wish I could have seen his hands.