As expected, Ganassi's Scott Dixon shattered the existing 16-year-old track qualifying record at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday, on his way to picking up his 25th pole position in the Verizon IndyCar Series championship. CLICK: Full qualifying times for the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course The previous best time around the 13-turn, 2.258-mile road course had been set by Dixon's former team mate Dario Franchitti who had recorded a lap of 1:05.347s here in August 1999. The following year, Gil de Ferran had matched it but been unable to shave even a single thousandth of a second off to claim the record in his own right. But on Saturday in the final round of qualifying for...
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