Having started 14th, Dixon climbed to 11th. Under the second caution of the day he and most of his rivals pitted, but an air-jack failure dropped him to the back of the field.
Then, after Graham Rahal knocked Pato O’Ward into Will Power, bringing both the Rahal Letterman Lanigan and Arrow McLaren SP cars to a halt at Turns 7 and 6 respectively, it naturally caused congestion and abrupt slowing in the area, causing Dalton Kellett to ram into Dixon’s car.
