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Scott Dixon was fully reclined, quietly watching NASCAR on television with friends, as the clock inched toward the IndyCar season finale. A fifth championship was one steady Sunday drive away and Dixon wasn’t the least bit stressed.

You don’t win 11 IndyCar championships without learning a few lessons along the way.

In Saturday’s DC Solar 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, his second trip in Ganassi’s car, Chastain closed the deal, surviving three restarts in the final 20 laps to earn his first NASCAR Xfinity Series victory in his 132nd start.

It is a paradox of auto racing that the faster the speed, the slower time unfolds. Even at 230 mph, expert drivers perceive all that rushes toward them — the track’s turns and banking, the cars ahead and even grandstands on either side — as a slow-motion ballet.

The last test of the 2018 IndyCar season was completed under warm and windy skies on Thursday at Sonoma Raceway.

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Foyt. Andretti. Unser. Mears. Dixon. There’s no question that Scott Robert Dixon is also rightly included in that select group of the greatest race car drivers that the Indy car world has ever known.