Nashville winner Dixon feared his race was ruined by shunt

In a race when 36 of the 80 laps were run under caution, Dixon’s #9 Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda was one of the early victims. Having started 14^th and climbing to 11^th, 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 to a halt at Turns 7 and 6 respectively, it naturally caused congestion and abrupt slowing in the area, causing Dalton Kellett’s AJ Foyt Racing-Chevy to ram into Dixon’s car.