The polesitter and the man who missed by 0.035sec were inevitably left with contrasting emotions after the session but shared optimism for tomorrow. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon scored the 24th pole position of his career with a run that eclipsed Team Penske’s pacesetter Helio Castroneves by just 0.035sec. He said: “I think it started with the first few laps.  I was all down and out.  I’m like ‘oh that doesn’t look so good.’  I couldn’t get my splits to go negative [signifying an improvement on pole time] and then we just crossed the line to get another lap.  The team were like ‘keep going, keep going’.  “We just gave it our all and the car just kept getting...
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