Kiwi racer Scott Dixon is using motivation from a disappointing 2021 season to propel him towards a record-equalling seventh Indycar crown.
The Manurewa product was in contention to win last season but had a number of strategy decisions from his usually accurate Chip Ganassi team prove the wrong decision.
All it has done is made the 41-year-old hungrier.
“I think when you’re in the team and you’re in the environment, you can clearly see some of the situations that you can do a better job at or try and find some fixes for it.” Dixon told Autosport.
“And sometimes it’s just not your year – whatever dice you roll, it doesn’t work out, and we had that definitely several times [in 2021] on strategy, where it looked pretty straightforward what we were doing, and ultimately whether a caution fell or whatever, it was the wrong thing to do.
“Not to take anything away from what other contenders did throughout the season, I think there’s always an easy way to look back on how you could have changed things slightly and had a much better season. But everybody has those stories.
“I think losing sometimes gives you that little bit more fight to try and turn that around, and that definitely hasn’t gone anywhere, that’s for sure.”
The 2022 Indycar Championship gets underway in a month.
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