If there was any doubt that Ganassi's Scott Dixon was the man to beat this weekend, he made it blindingly obviously with his pace in the third and final practice ahead of qualifying for the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio, the 14th round of the 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series. See full Saturday practice 3 times from Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Dixon improved his overnight speed by almost nine tenths of a second in the 45-minute session, recording a best lap of 1:05.1209s (124.826mph) on his final tour of the 13-turn, 2.258-mile road course before the chequered flag called time. That is already significantly faster than the existing official track qualifying record of 1:05.347s set by Dixon's former...
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