Target Chip Ganassi's Scott "Iceman" Dixon sat patiently behind polesitter and dominant race leader Ryan Briscoe for all but the last 24 laps of this afternoon's ABC Supply/A.J. Foyt 225. On Lap 201 lapped traffic, which played a major role all day, allowed Dixon to take advantage and slingshot around Briscoe for the lead. Immediately pulling away to a gigantic lead, Dixon easily took the checkered flag, the first second time winner of 09, and jumped to top of the championship leaderboard.

"I was trying to get the flow of traffic the whole day," said Dixon, who won earlier this season on the 1.5-mile oval at Kansas Speedway. "I definitely think from the start our car was better. We could run quick times when we needed to, and we were good in traffic. We had many runs on (Ryan) Briscoe, and he kind of blocked a lot and that was kind of frustrating early on, but he definitely got caught up there with (Tomas) Scheckter trying to take him on the bottom, and I got a great run on the high side and it just lined up perfect."

The race started off in exciting fashion with Graham Rahal jumping around Briscoe right off the start, only to have Tony Kanaan thread the needle between the two of them to assume the lead on the first lap. By lap 18, the leaders began to come up upon and subsequently lap slower traffic, which separated the strong cars from the ill handling cars. One of those poorly handling cars would turn out to be race leader Kanaan who would give up the lead to the hard charging Briscoe on lap 26, followed immediately by Dixon & Rahal.

The race continued under green with several dicing battles throughout the pack. Briscoe, Dixon, Franchitti & Rahal battled up front for the lead, several cars battled midpack for position, including all four AGR cars, and Helio Castroneves did everything in his power to remain wide, so as not to be put a lap down by his teammate who was fighting for the win and the championship lead.

On lap 57 the first of only 2 cautions (a track record) came out when Dreyer and Reinbold driver Mike Conway was a little too generous with his track position while allowing Dan Wheldon to pass underneath him. Conway's car drifted up too high and found the wall, bringing the rookie's day to a premature end for the 4th time this season.

While the track underwent a lengthy clean up, everyone came into the pits for fuel and tires, and all exited cleanly except for Helio Castroneves who stalled in the pits, Paul Tracy, who had to return to the pits when it was discovered his crew had cranked his front wing in the wrong direction, and E.J. Viso, who spent several laps in the pits with gearbox issues. Despite getting back on track 12 laps down, Viso's day would come to a premature end on lap 191 when his car drifted up into the wall. He would make it back to the pits without a caution, where the team decided just call it a day and move on to Texas.

By lap 75 there were only 14 cars on the lead lap, and the leader board remained the same: Briscoe, Dixon, Franchitti, Rahal. By lap 128 the teams began to make green flag pit stops. On lap 135, Tony Kanaan's day went from bad to worse when a fire in his car forced the still injured Brazilian to be frantically hoisted from his car by his crewmen, ending his day on the spot.

When the pit stops cycled through (around lap 140) Dario Franchitti had assumed the lead, but he would not remain in the catbird seat very long as Briscoe would get back around for the lead on lap 154, followed immediately by Franchitti's teammate Dixon.

Lap 160 would see the second caution of the day, not for an incident, but rather for some mystery debris, allowing teams to make their final pit stops, and the track sweepers to make haste of the accumulating marbles on track.

The race would go back to green on lap 173, and would stay green for the remainder.

On lap 201, Ryan Briscoe would get caught in traffic alongside Tomas Scheckter, giving Dixon the opening he was looking for. Dixon would never look back, unchallenged by either Briscoe or the hard charging Franchitti, who couldn't find his way around Briscoe despite several attempts.

Dixon, despite his off kilter start to the 2009 season, assumes the championship lead heading into Texas. Briscoe and Franchitti are now tied for second, Patrick moves up to 4th and Castroneves, who's anticipated charge from the back never manifested itself today, drops to 5th in the standings.

Teams and drivers now head to the Texas Motor Speedway for round 6 of the 2009 IndyCar Series Championship.