---
title: "Sitting Down to Shoot the Bull with 5-Time IndyCar Champ Scott Dixon"
description: "Five championships, a new documentary, and a solid future with Ganassi Racing might even make us forget he washed out of \"American Ninja.\""
date: "2018-09-25"
modified: "2018-09-25"
authors:
  - name: "Mike Spinelli"
    job_title: "VP of Content"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/mike-spinelli"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/video/23831/sitting-down-to-shoot-the-bull-with-5-time-indycar-champ-scott-dixon"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Racing"
tags:
  - "indycar"
  - "Interview"
  - "racing"
  - "Scott Dixon"
---

# Sitting Down to Shoot the Bull with 5-Time IndyCar Champ Scott Dixon

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Scott Dixon may not be great at [concealing a laugh](<https://www.thedrive.com/video/23064/alexander-rossi-and-scott-dixon-prove-winning-at-indycar-is-hard-but-winning-a-joke-off-may-be-harder>), but he’s only the second driver in series history to score five IndyCar championships. (The first was the legendary A.J. Foyt, who went on to collect seven of his own.) The Australia-born New Zealander stopped by *The Drive* garage recently to talk about his latest winning IndyCar season, his team, Chip Ganassi Racing, how his driving style meshed with IndyCar's [newest chassis design](<https://www.thedrive.com/video/18826/heres-what-the-2018-indycar-body-kit-looks-like-up-close>), and his recent test of the new IndyCar prototype windscreen.

He also opened up about training for his appearance on the TV show *American Ninja Warrior*, and the filming of *Born Racer*, a new documentary that followed his 2017 IndyCar season, including a terrifying crash during the Indianapolis 500.

They may call Dixon “The Iceman” for his unflappably cool demeanor on track, but it’s always a good time when he stops by *The Drive*. Check out our interview with Dixon in the video above.

## Author
A sucker for Ford-era Jaguar XJs and glitchy, early-90s BMW V12s, Mike was the founding editor of car culture site Jalopnik, and a former editor-in-chief of 0-60. He's also a co-host of the TV show /DRIVE on NBC Sports, which can be seen from time to time on NBCSN, usually after midnight.

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