New Zealander wins minor U.S. race

If you were as absorbed as us in Sunday’s Monaco GP, then you might have missed the result of some smallsville hick race in Indianapolis on the same weekend.

Scott Dixon, pictured above with his huge winner’s trophy (looks a bit like an upside-down Dalek, no?), took the chequered flag, thereby making good on his pole position, which he secured more than one week ago - being Yanks, they stretch out the race weekend to almost one month.

Dixon is the first New Zealander to win America’s most famous race. He joins the short list of Great Kiwis, which now reads as follows: Edmund Hillary, Peter Jackson, Jonah Lomu, Tiger Woods’ caddy… and Scott Dixon.

The Kiwi media seemed rather pissed off that several reports of Dixon’s win referred to the New Zealander as “Brisbane-born”. Dixon was indeed born in Australia (or “across the ditch”, as Kiwis say), but he moved to NZ at a very young age.

Anyhow, what happened in the race? Well, lots of shiny bright cars drove round and round really fast until the finish. What else do you want to know?

The most exciting thing that happened was Danica Patrick getting her knickers in a twist, after her car was clipped by Ryan Briscoe’s Penske in the pit lane. Look how mad she was:

Scary face.