When a driver is so good at one particular track such as the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course that he has earned the nickname “Mr. Mid-Ohio,” anything short of a victory is unacceptable.

Scott Dixon entered Sunday’s Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio with five Verizon IndyCar Series wins in 10 races at the 13-turn, 2.258-mile road course nestled in Ohio’s Amish Country.

Shortly after the start of Sunday’s race, Dixon noticed something was wrong in his Honda machine that lined up sixth on the grid.

“I think something was broken,” Dixon told Autoweek. “The car was just so loose. We’ve never had the car like that. We didn’t change anything from the morning warmup. There was something wrong from the rear of the car. We had to take out a huge amount of front wing just to make it drivable.”

Dixon fought his way to a ninth-place finish and dropped out of the Verizon IndyCar Series points lead. He entered the contest with a three-point lead over Team Penske’s Helio Castroneves and is now third in the standings, eight points behind the new leader, Josef Newgarden, and one point behind second-place Castroneves.

“It’s one of those situations where we’ve had days like this before and we will have them again in the future,” Dixon said. “We have to keep after it, make sure we keep our head down and get the most out of it in the next races.

“You can’t rest on previous results at any track. You have to take each race as it comes and get the most out of it that you can.

“Overall, it just not our weekend. We held in there and fought, but need to regroup and get ready for Pocono in a few weeks. Points are really at a premium now with four to go."

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