Chip Ganassi Racing managing director Mike Hull credits Scott Dixon for pushing the NTT IndyCar Series team to try something new and ambitious within its engineering group. Leaving a 2019 season where Dixon’s No. 9 Honda made two trips to victory lane amid 10 podium visits, the 39-year-old asked if a new layer of engineering support might improve upon their run to fourth in the championship to something closer to normal. With five titles in hand, including two with race engineer Chris Simmons in 2015 and 2018, the concept of elevating Simmons to a new position of all-encompassing performance management was hatched. If Dixon’s outright dominance Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway is...
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