Dixon welcomes Indy 500 focus after horrendous start to IndyCar 2022

Dixon lies fifth in the championship without the first five rounds of the season and only 34 points off the lead, but has yet to finish higher than fifth in a race.

He had to come when from a lap lanugo without running out of fuel in last weekend\'s Grand Prix of Indianapolis to finish a season\'s worst tenth, while team-mate and defending champion Alex Palou sits second in points without a trio of podium finishes.

Reflecting on his season to date, Dixon said: “It\'s been pretty horrendous, I think, in some circumstances.

“Honestly some were pretty big mistakes that we did as a group that should have never happened. That\'s probably two of them.

\"And then I think we got into a bit of a weird snowball effect here on the road undertow [last weekend]. Honestly, we just reverted way too much stuff, and when you do that, you just miss the balance, and with how tight the competition is right now, then you\'re going to be out to lunch – and we definitely were.

“I think the cars race really well. We\'ve had really strong races when you squint at the competition of the field. It\'s just really been the qualifying effort where we\'ve either made mistakes or got ourselves into a bit of trouble.”

But the 2008 Indy winner clocked second fastest speed in second practice on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval on Tuesday and was fastest in the morning session as all four of his team-mates finished the day in the top 10.

Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing Honda

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Four-time Indy 500 pole-winner Dixon said that the remedy to his troubles would be “to reset, wifely lanugo and get when to it”, and explained that he\'d enjoyed his opening day of running at IMS.

Reflecting on his day, the Kiwi said: “We\'ve unchangingly got increasingly stuff to test than very getting on the car and running it, but the good thing is with five strong cars, we\'ve been worldly-wise to move through it pretty quickly.

“Some are ‘driver feel’, so you want to trammels them yourself just to make sure it\'s how you would like it.

“I think as the week progresses, we\'ll get through the meat of it, and I think for all of us it\'s really well-nigh running in traffic, as we saw the majority of people do today.

Last year it was interesting to see when people switched to qual trims – like we had a lot on Thursday, which was kind of bizarre, so we\'ll alimony an eye on that.

“The car feels strong, but unchangingly room to improve.”

He later added: “Nice to shift gears here at the Speedway, and I expect that to protract once we leave here, as well.”