On the eve of the 16-race 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series championship, David Malsher studies the form guide for the teams contesting the full season. This is the year of the 100th Indianapolis 500, and the iconic and beautiful Borg Warner Trophy will doubtless cast a long shadow across the first third of the season. And so it should. But the five races that precede the Indy 500 will prove the foundation of a championship campaign. Champions like Scott Dixon, Will Power and Ryan Hunter-Reay can all tell you of years in which they stumbled through the first half of the season, leaving them with too much to do in the second half, even once they and their teams started getting the results they...
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