FORT WORTH, Texas -- Scott Dixon, Alexander Rossi and the rest of the IndyCar drivers were in sunny Florida around spring break ready to start the season.
"We geared up, we had the offseason, we had done all the preseason testing ... you kind of had all that pent-up tension to get going," five-time IndyCar champion Dixon said this week.
Nearly three months later, they are finally set to run their first competitive laps of the season. Then they will wait another four weeks to race again.
"It's all not gone according to plan by any stretch of the imagination.