Well, and in Indycar news had just come in that New Zealander Scott Dixon (The 40 year old experienced veteran originally from Auckland in New Zealand (Was born in Brisbane, Australia to Kiwi born parents) now currently based in Indianapolis, Indiana with his beautiful wife Emma Davies-Dixon (A former Welsh athletic runner) & his 3 kids (2 daughters & a son who was born just last year) but has just lived the American dream since Dixon (Who races with the very famous Chip Ganassi (Who was once an American racing car driver before his injuries in a serious crash at Michigan Motor Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan way back in 1984 which ended his racing career before becoming a team owner) Racing (He has been a loyal servant since joining that team in 2002 from the old PacWest team in Champ Cars a year before switching to the Indycar Series) 1st came here competing in the Indy Lights in 1999 & managed under former Swedish F1 & Indycar driver Stefan Johansson) has won his 6th Indycar series championship (Only 1 championship title behind AJ Foyt (The king of American open wheel racing & 4 time winner of the Indianapolis 500), but Dixon has 50 victories in American open wheel championship racing (2 behind famous Italian born American racer Mario Andretti (Father of former driver & team owner Michael & grandfather of Andretti Autosport driver Marco who Mario triumphed in the Indy 500 in 1969 & won his only Formula 1 World Championship crown in 1978) while topping the all time list is Foyt but Dixon's 1st Indycar series title was in 2003 followed by 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018 & now this year as well as his one & only success in the Indy 500 in 2008 (Same year that he won the title) but is now New Zealand's most successful racing car driver since the good old days of the late Denny Hulme (1967 Formula 1 World Champion & the only Kiwi to win the F1 crown) over in St Petersburg, Florida (In what would've been the 1st race of the 2020 Indycar season before COVID had happened & has been moved to the final round of the championship & will return hosting the season opener next year as Dixon will attempt to make history of tying the all time record set by the great AJ Foyt (Unlike in F1 this year that Lewis Hamilton (Currently driving for Mercedes which conquered the F1 world since 2014) is doing the same as he tries to tie Michael Schumacher's record for most number of F1 titles but now Hamilton has 92 victories in F1, eventually breaking the all time record set by Michael Schumacher (I was a huge Michael Schumacher fan way back 20 years ago but he made his F1 debut in 1991 with Jordan (His only race with the team was in Belgium before joining Benetton which he remained with the team until 1995) then he won the F1 World Championship 7 times in 1994 & 1995 in a Benetton & 2000 to 2004 in a Ferrari (The team that he used to race from 1996 until his 1st retirement in 2006 & his son Mick is part of the Ferrari driver academy because of his father & is a driver currently competing in F2) before his last race in F1 was in 2012 in Brazil in a Mercedes (He joined the team in 2010 before retiring from Formula 1 again in 2012 (Lewis Hamilton replaced him & is an integral member of the Mercedes AMG F1 Team ever since when he won 5 World Championships with the team in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 & last year as well as 2008 in which he won the F1 world championship crown with his 1st F1 team that he raced with which was McLaren (He raced from his debut in 2007 until he left in 2012 to join Mercedes for the 2013 season & has been there ever since & is on the verge of making history this year) a year before he had a serious skiing accident back in his home in Switzerland in which he was concussed (He had been wearing a helmet in which he survived) & has been out of the public eye since (His health status remains a mystery (And it's top secret which has been kept under wraps) as he finished 3rd (Behind Arrow McLaren SP driver Patricio 'Pato' O'Ward (The Indy Lights champion in 2018 (He only competed just the solitary Indycar race in Sonoma) then competed once in Formula 2 then in Super Formula last year after being signed by the Red Bull junior team before he decided to come back to America to compete in Indycars again this year) in the final round of the championship (His rival & defending champion at the time. Josef Newgarden won the race but a podium finish for Dixon (The man they always call him 'The Iceman' (Similar nickname to New Zealand rugby legend Sir Michael Jones (A Rugby World Cup winning player for the All Blacks in 1987 (He played for Auckland in the old National Provincial Championship or NPC (Before it became the Air New Zealand Cup in 2006 then the ITM Cup in 2010 & now the Mitre 10 Cup in 2016) & the Blues in the old Super 12 competition (That was before Super 14 in 2006 & Super Rugby (Which is now split into 3 competitions during the pandemic such as Super Rugby Aotearoa here in New Zealand then Super Rugby AU in Australia & now Super Rugby Unlocked in South Africa) in 2011) & one of the 3rd best All Black players of the 20th century behind the late Sir Colin Meads (Who never got to play at a Rugby World Cup before it was introduced in 1987) & fellow Rugby World Cup winning All Black, Sean Fitzpatrick (Jones's Auckland & Blues teammate back in the day) because of his ice cool attitude) is enough to seal the title (I mean what a driver, what an Indycar season that he is having but now we have just seen the New Zealand success of motorsport this year (We have once witnessed the golden generation of New Zealand motor racing with some of the great names with the likes of the late Chris Amon (Who once raced for Ferrari in F1 & is originally from Bulls because Pops once told me about it), the late Denny Hulme as I mentioned before & the late Bruce McLaren (Founder of the British sports car manufacturer McLaren) appearing in major motorsports such as F1 in the 1960's) such as Scott McLaughlin (Who made his Indycar debut (And is among the rookies lining up in 2021 along with 7 time NASCAR (Which is the main racing series in America (Where they have stock car racing there) compared to Indycar (America & Canada's answer to F1 (Which is held worldwide but the constructors are based in Europe (There's only one F1 constructor to be based in the United States of America which is Haas), F2 (F1's feeder series held throughout Europe & the Middle East) & Super Formula (Which is held in Japan only) which is the premier single seater racing series in the US) Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson & former F1 driver from France (Actually he was born in Switzerland but he was involved in a serious accident during the F1 race in Bahrain in which he suffered burns to his hands when his car caught on fire), Romain Grosjean) at this track in St Pete but his race was ended in disappointment as he retired from the race due to a collision with Dutch Indycar rookie of the year Rinus Veekay but is now competing full time next year in an Indycar) winning his 3rd straight Supercars Championship title as well as Shane Van Gisbergen winning the annual Bathurst 1000 race this year with Australian Garth Tander & now Dixon as I mentioned before due to his success in Indycar this year although the Dallara IR18 now has the aeroscreen (Which is Indycar's equivalent of the halo in Formula 1, Formula 2 & Super Formula) & is able to redeem himself after missing out last year to Newgarden & was back to his best (At the start of this year when Chip Ganassi Racing & their driver Scott Dixon were trying to change the team's fortunes around after Team Penske returned to power last year (Well, at least this year for Team Penske that they failed to remain in power (The Chip Ganassi Racing/Team Penske rivalry this year in Indycar is similar to the Mercedes/Red Bull rivalry in F1) when Josef Newgarden won his 2nd Indycar title at Laguna Seca & they succeeded) of regaining the Astor Cup (The trophy that awards the Indycar Series champion since 2011).
So that is my 369th blog of the year 2020 (MMXX) & my 29th of this year.
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