With Scott Dixon’s victory in the Honda Indy 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, the 2025 IndyCar season has 'finally' seen a third different race winner. With this win, Dixon extends his streak of consecutive seasons with at least one victory to 21! The thrilling final stages of the race also delivered the most exciting finish in nearly a year. What else stood out? We analyze the race weekend through a series of numbers.

445 – After yet another miserable race weekend for Team Penske, the team has dropped to fifth place in the OpenWheelWorld.net Team Championship. When only the best two finishes per team are counted, Meyer Shank Racing actually scored more points (476) than the outfit of Roger Penske.

113 – Even though Alex Palou failed to win the race due to his own mistake, he once again made big strides in the championship battle: with Kyle Kirkwood finishing no better than seventh, Palou's lead in the standings has grown to over 113 points — more than twice the maximum number of points available in a single race.

110 – A total of 110 on-track overtakes for position were recorded during the race. That’s significantly more than last year’s 78, although this year’s race was aided by one extra caution period and was ten laps longer.

66.5919 – Despite having a tough race, Scott McLaughlin set the fastest lap of the race. The Penske driver clocked a 1:06.5919 (or 66.5919 seconds) on lap 83. McLaughlin was helped by making an extra pit stop with 11 laps to go and switching to a set of soft tires, which he had only briefly used in qualifying.

58 – Dixon’s victory was the 58th of his career, keeping him firmly in second place on the all-time wins list. The top spot still belongs to AJ Foyt, with 67 victories.

26 – Even though he was nearly eight-tenths of a second quicker than teammate Jacob Abel, Rinus VeeKay had to start the race behind his teammate — in 26th place. This is a result of the qualifying format used at road and street circuits. For VeeKay, it was the first time in ten races that he had to start behind a teammate. The only driver this year who hasn’t started behind a teammate even once is Alex Palou, who has started ahead of Kyffin Simpson in every race.

23 – It was another disastrous weekend for Team Penske. None of the team’s cars qualified better than 18th and the race went even worse: Josef Newgarden crashed at the start and Will Power retired after 11 laps with an engine failure. Scott McLaughlin was the only Penske to reach the checkered flag, but due to extreme tire degradation, he had to make five pit stops — compared to just two for Scott Dixon, for example. As a result, McLaughlin was the only driver without technical issues who finished a lap down; he was classified 23rd.

21 – With his win at Mid-Ohio, Scott Dixon has now won at least one race in 21 consecutive seasons, further extending his own record. The streak began in 2005. In total, the Ganassi Racing driver has won races in 23 different seasons, also including 2001 and 2003.

20 – The second row of the starting grid at Mid-Ohio featured two very happy 20-year-old drivers: Kyffin Simpson and Nolan Siegel. It was the best IndyCar qualifying performance ever for both drivers. Simpson’s third place was a major improvement over his previous best (tenth earlier this year in both the Grand Prix of Alabama and the Grand Prix of Indianapolis). Siegel’s fourth place was a smaller improvement over his previous best of sixth, also in Alabama. They finished the race in the same order, separated by three-tenths of a second, in tenth and eleventh.

17 – Rinus VeeKay received the award for the most positions gained during the race. The Dale Coyne Racing driver started 26th and finished 9th — an impressive gain of 17 spots!

12 – Andretti Global’s decision to replace Marcus Ericsson’s engineer Olivier Boisson with Dave Seyffert seems to have had an immediate positive effect. In their first race weekend together, Ericsson qualified for the Fast 12 on a non-oval for the first time this year, placing eleventh. He held his position in the race and finished twelfth — his best result in the last seven events.

12 – Louis Foster was the highest-placed rookie, finishing in fourteenth. The 16 points this earned him moved the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver ahead of Robert Shwartzman in the Rookie of the Year standings.

8 – It’s becoming a trend: Louis Foster qualifies well, but drops off during the race. The Brit started sixth, but crossed the line in fourteenth, losing eight positions — more than any other driver in the field.

8 – The Honda engine was clearly the stronger power-unit at Mid-Ohio; eight of the top ten finishers were powered by Honda. To go even further: among the top fourteen, only four were Chevrolet drivers, while among the bottom thirteen, just three were driving Hondas.

7 – Scott Dixon truly is the king of the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course — this was his seventh win at the track! That makes him by far the most successful driver in the circuit’s history.

4 – Only four drivers led laps during the race: Alex Palou (75 laps), Scott Dixon (11 laps), Colton Herta (3 laps), and Kyffin Simpson (1 lap).

4 – Compared to previous races, race control had a relatively quiet day; only four penalties were handed out:

Will Power and Devlin DeFrancesco made emergency pit stops while the pits were closed and had to drop to the back of the field for the restart.

Santino Ferrucci was ordered to give up three positions for avoidable contact with Conor Daly’s car.

Kyffin Simpson received a drive-through penalty for colliding with a mechanic of Dale Coyne Racing.

4 – Only four drivers managed to complete the race with just two pit stops: Scott Dixon, Felix Rosenqvist, Rinus VeeKay, and Kyffin Simpson. It proved to be the right strategy, as all four finished in the top ten. Notably, all four were driving Honda-powered cars.

3 – With Scott Dixon winning at Mid-Ohio, we finally have a third different race winner this IndyCar season. The other wins were taken by Alex Palou (6) and Kyle Kirkwood (3).

0.42 – After a thrilling final stint, Scott Dixon won the race with a 0.42-second margin. This is the smallest margin between the race winner and second place this season and the closest since last year’s Toronto street race, when Colton Herta beat Kyle Kirkwood by 0.35 seconds.

0 – It’s been a painful season for Chevrolet, which has yet to win a single race after ten rounds. The American brand is trailing significantly in the engine championship, where Honda has scored 915 points compared to Chevrolet’s 701.