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Scott Dixon was born to be a racecar driver. The son of two “Kiwi” dirt-track racers, Dixon climbed behind the wheel of a car for the first time when he was 13 and set off immediately winning the championship in the New Zealand Formula Vee after being granted a special license to compete. Dixon became the then-youngest major open-wheel winner 2002 at Nazareth. The following year he showed that it was not a fluke by winning the 2003 IndyCar Series Championship with Target Chip Ganassi Racing.

During his career in IndyCar the New Zelander has won 11 races and captured 9 pole positions. During the 2007 season Dixon came close to winning his second IndyCar title, but in a drama filled race at Chicagoland Speedway a gamble with fuel strategy dropped him into second in the points standings. In 2008 Dixon is on a mission to get that title that slipped away at the last minute.