Six-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion Scott Dixon is deeper in the standings than he’d like to be after four races. He’s 10th, which is to say he might have his competition right where he wants them.

Dixon is a notoriously slow starter, and this is about the time of the year when he typically accelerates. Take note of what’s ahead. Dixon surely has.

Beginning with next week’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, Dixon has series wins at each of the next seven venues, and he has won multiple races at several of them. He has two wins at Long Beach, two wins on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, a win in the Indianapolis 500, four wins in Detroit (three at Belle Isle Park, another on the current street circuit), a win at World Wide Technology Raceway, two wins at Road America, seven wins at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and three wins at Nashville Superspeedway.

Dixon’s marks at Mid-Ohio and Nashville are series records.

Another victory at any of these races – or any of the others remaining on the schedule -- will earn Dixon a remarkable status. He would join A.J. Foyt as the other drivers with at least 60 wins in a career. Foyt netted 67.

Another victory also will extend Dixon’s record of at least one win in 22 consecutive seasons, and it will give him 25 winning seasons, extending another record he owns. There are eight drivers in this year’s field who were not born when Dixon earned his first series victory May 6, 2001, at Nazareth Speedway.

Dixon extends his ironman mark with each race. He has competed in 423 series events, which is 100 more than the driver who is No. 2 among full-time drivers (Will Power).

Scott Dixon

Dixon’s 2026 season has been plagued by subpar qualifying efforts. His average starting position through the first four races is 16.0, which is where he started for the season-opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. He took the green flag for the Good Ranchers 250 at Phoenix Raceway from the 15th position, and he was a season-low 20th for the Java House Grand Prix of Arlington. His best qualifying performance was 13th in the most recent race, the Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix powered by AmFirst.

A pit stop issue in the St. Petersburg race led to Dixon finishing 23rd. Since then, he has finished in the top eight in each of the past three races. He delivered the fastest lap of the Arlington race, and he had the fourth-fastest lap at Phoenix.

“There have been things out of our control and some in my control,” Dixon said at Barber Motorsports Park. “I just haven’t executed well (in qualifying).”

But at age 45, the series’ oldest full-time driver is still talented enough and certainly has the experience to win any race. Any of the next seven races could be just the place for No. 60.