LEXINGTON, Ohio (AP) — There’s something about Mid-Ohio — and odd years on the calendar — that bring out the best in Scott Dixon.
The winner at Mid-Ohio in 2007 and 2009, Dixon had the fastest qualifying time Saturday to take the pole for Sunday’s IndyCar race at the road course.
Ryan Briscoe will start No. 2 on the grid, with defending champ and points leader Dario Franchitti third. Will Power is fourth, Ryan Hunter-Reay fifth and local favorite Graham Rahal sixth.
Dixon has finished second four times in a luckless year in IRL.
During qualifying, Justin Wilson spun off the course and hit a bump between Turns 1 and 2 in a single-car accident, sustaining a broken vertebra in his back. He was awake and alert but being held overnight at the hospital.
