New Zealand race car driver Dixon calls robbery a big “contrast”
TORONTO — It was intended as a celebration but turned into a nightmare.
Two days after he was robbed at gunpoint, IndyCar driver Scott Dixon reflected on the harrowing experience that was a big “contrast coming from a country with no guns.”
The New Zealander and former IndyCar star Dario Franchitti were held up while in the drive-thru lineup at Taco Bell just before 10 p.m. Saturday in Indianapolis. Dixon had won the pole earlier in the day for next Sunday’s Indy 500, and he’d just wrapped up media interviews.
Because their first choice — an Italian restaurant in town — was closed, they decided on a Taco Bell run, since the fast food restaurant was just a mile down the road from the race track.