Look Out, A.J. Foyt; Scott Dixon Is Getting Larger In Your Rear-View Mirror

As hard as it may seem to believe, we’re already almost one-quarter of the way through the 2021 NTT IndyCar Series season schedule.

That’s right, four races down, just 13 to go.

While we’ve seen youngsters Alex Palou, Colton Herta and now Pato O’Ward reach victory lane, one driver in particular has stood out above all others.

And who it is is not a surprise by any stretch.

In the same season he potentially could tie the legendary A.J. Foyt for most Indy car championships (seven), New Zealander Scott Dixon is off to the best start of every IndyCar driver in 2021, period.

Dixon won Saturday’s front half of the weekend doubleheader at Texas Motor Speedway, his 51st career IndyCar win. Then on Sunday, he led a race-high 163 of 248 total laps around the 1.5-mile oval, before falling behind late in the race, yet still finished a very respectable fourth-place.

That’s a heck of a weekend in anybody’s race book.

Furthermore, Dixon is the only IndyCar driver who has not finished lower than fifth in any of the first four races this season. He was third in the 2021 season opener at Birmingham, fifth at St. Petersburg, won Saturday night at Texas and finished fourth in Sunday’s rodeo.

None of the other three winners to date this season come close to Dixon’s overall performance record thus far in 2021—with the possible exception of O’Ward:

Dixon: 3^rd, 5^th, 1^st and 4^th

Palou: 1^st, 17^th, 4^th and 7th