INDIANAPOLIS — Long before Scott Dixon became one of the most successful racecar drivers in history, winning six IndyCar Series championships and 51 races in a span of nearly two decades, he relied on his natural talent to get ahead. Turbocharged reaction time. Willingness to drive on the itty-bitty edge that separates maintaining control from losing it. An instinct for how to adjust a car to make it go faster and for using a chess master's mind to predict how a race will unfold. And, of course, fearlessness — even at speeds around 240 miles per hour, which can make a car so ornery that a driver needs to wrestle the steering wheel to tame it. Even after losing close friends to crashes and serving as one of their pallbearers. Ask around the sport these days, though, and many people will explain that Dixon, 40, is within a win of tying Mario Andretti for the second-most American open-wheel car victories because he is a hard-working star with a secret weapon. That would be Emma Davies-Dixon, his wife. Davies-Dixon, 42, was a standout middle-distance runner who competed internationally for Britain. She knows what it takes to win. "I'm convinced more than… Read full this story
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