LEXINGTON, OH — Honda has had a great 2023 season so far. On Saturday they scored their 8th pole in 9 tries. They were hopeful Sunday would be their sixth win. Not only was it that, it was a 1-2 effort between Chip Ganassi Racing teammates of Alex Palou and Scott Dixon. It capped a great weekend that saw them lead 79 of 80 laps and backed up a front row sweep with a 1-2 sweep of the race.

In fact, the entire Fast Six on Saturday was swept by Honda’s and it’s big to do so in their self sponsored race – the Honda Indy 200.

“Honda is just better. It’s simple. They wake up in the morning and they piss excellence,” Colton Herta joked quoting a line from Talladega Nights

“No, it’s tough to say. It’s constantly changing, and I think we have weekends where we think we have better power down and they have weekends where they think they have better power down or straight-line speed, vice versa.

“It just felt good. Downshifts were clean, power was great.”

Graham Rahal agreed.

“I just think they’re doing a really good job right now of pushing the envelope again, you know, more,” he says. “And I thought that as Colton just said, there were times this year where we felt a little bit deficient, but the last couple of races I’ve felt like they’ve really started to push really hard again and try to find more and try to help us makes lives easier, and I think they’ve done a wonderful job. And clearly this race is as important for Honda as it is anybody and any other person here or any other company here. It’s good to see them lock out the top six.”

While they lost out on the Indy 500, they did win in Chevy’s backyard in Detroit. They’ve now won 5 of the last 7 races on the season and heading into another Honda sponsored event in two weeks at Toronto.