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Tackling the Detroit grind: Scott Dixon, Alex Palou on this grueling post-500 street race

It’s good to be a motorsport fan in the American Midwest this time of year. The end of May brings one of the biggest races in world to the forefront of the motorsport season — the Indianapolis 500 — and just 300 miles northeast, and a few days later, IndyCar arrives in Detroit for the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix weekend.

“All the drivers coming here [know it] is definitely a different animal. You know, it's quite a small track,” Scott Dixon tells Motorsport.com. “It's quite tight. You've got the big straight, which is very inviting into the hip. And so, I guess it's, you know, probably the motto for here is trying to stay out of trouble. I think it's very inviting to get yourself into a situation.

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