LONG BEACH, Calif. — Scott Dixon moved nearer to A.J. Foyt on IndyCar’s all-time win listing by selecting up his 57th profession victory Sunday on the downtown streets of Lengthy Seashore.

Foyt is IndyCar’s winningest driver with 67 victories.

Dixon’s win is his second in probably the most prestigious avenue course race in america and gave Chip Ganassi Racing a sweep of the weekend. Ganassi’s sports activities automobile group of Renger van der Zande and Sebastian Bourdais gained the IMSA race on Saturday.

The victory additionally makes it two straight for Ganassi in IndyCar as reigning sequence champion Alex Palou gained the exhibition race final month in California.

Dixon used masterful fuel-saving technique and was being chased over the ultimate 20 laps by Workforce Penske driver Josef Newgarden, who appeared to have the pace to run Dixon down for the victory. However the race modified when Colton Herta bumped into the again of Newgarden as all of them slowed by way of the hairpin with lapped site visitors forward.

It knocked Newgarden out of the way in which as each Herta and Alex Palou handed him.

“He simply stopped in the midst of the nook,” Herta complained of Newgarden. Herta completed 0.9798 seconds behind Dixon for Andretti World.

Newgarden, who fell to fourth, had a dialog with Herta on pit street after the race and the drivers had differing opinions — primarily with Newgarden upset Herta did not get a penalty.

“I am undecided how lifting somebody two toes within the air is not a penalty,” stated Newgarden, who stated he wasn’t positive he’d have been capable of catch Dixon, anyway.

As Dixon celebrated, his rivals questioned how the Kiwi had sufficient gas to not solely make it to the end but additionally have fun with burnouts and drive the automobile to victory lane.

“Josef was coming sturdy, however Chip got here on [the radio] and stated, ‘Simply go for it, man,'” Dixon stated.

Ganassi stated Dixon had been saving gas for practically 50 of the 85 laps and “completely” didn’t assume Dixon was going to make it. “I stated he was going to expire on the final lap.”

Dixon devoted the win to Sir Colin Giltrap, a New Zealand motorsports benefactor who died Wednesday and was instrumental in Dixon’s profession, in addition to most of the prime Kiwis racing all over the world.

Palou completed third, making it a Honda sweep in a race sponsored by its Acura model. Newgarden in fourth was the best ending Chevrolet driver.

Felix Rosenqvist began on the pole — the primary in IndyCar for Meyer Shank Racing — however Will Energy on alternate tires wasted no time in blowing previous Rosenqvist by way of the primary flip. Rosenqvist was a rock from there as rivals started to choose off the pole-sitter one after the other and he was all the way down to sixth by the eighth lap.

He completed ninth.

The race modified for Energy — and Dixon — when rookie Christian Rasmussen spun and crashed arduous into the wall. Jack Harvey’s automobile was broken as he could not keep away from Rasmussen ramming into him.

The following warning led Energy to make a pit cease and Dixon adopted. It gave Newgarden the lead on the 18th lap and Dixon and Energy have been in full fuel-saving mode for the rest of the race. Energy restarted twelfth however was ultimately handed by Dixon, who then labored his method by way of the sector.

Energy completed sixth, proper behind Marcus Ericsson in his greatest end up to now together with his new Andretti group.

The race was weird for Arrow McLaren from the beginning when Pato O’Ward bumped into the again of teammate Alexander Rossi. O’Ward acquired a drive-thru penalty for avoidable contact, however Rossi needed to pit to restore his automobile and dropped to final within the area.

“Sorry about Rossi,” O’Ward stated on his radio. “That was utterly my fault.”

Rossi rallied to complete tenth, one spot forward of F2 champion Theo Pourchaire, who made his IndyCar debut because the substitute for injured McLaren driver David Malukas. Pourchaire had by no means pushed an Indy automobile previous to Friday’s first follow session.

O’Ward wound up sixteenth in what has turn into his pseudo residence race. The Mexican driver has throngs of followers who flip up at Lengthy Seashore waving the Mexican flag and sporting sombreros as his line within the autograph session dwarfs the remainder of the sector.

UP NEXT: IndyCar races subsequent Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama. Scott McLaughlin is the defending race winner. After practically a five-week break, IndyCar is now on monitor seven of the subsequent eight weekends.