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Indy 500 Pole Sitter And Retired Champion Robbed At Gunpoint At Indianapolis Taco Bell: Police
Indy 500 Pole Sitter And Retired Champion Robbed At Gunpoint At Indianapolis Taco Bell: Police-April 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:22

Just hours after qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti were robbed at gunpoint at an Indianapolis Taco Bell, . What two of the world’s top drivers were doing at a Taco Bell is unclear.

An Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department report cited by local stations and claims that two teenagers robbed Franchitti, Dixon and wife Emma Davies Dixon at around 10 p.m. Sunday. Jalopnik could not find the cited report in a search of the department’s .

The stations cite the report as saying Dixon, an IndyCar driver for Chip Ganassi Racing, was driving a company-owned Honda at the time of the robbery. The suspects, listed as 14 and 15 years old by the cited police report, allegedly robbed the group before fleeing on foot.

Neither of the outlets reported what the teenagers might have taken from the group, but both said that the suspects were later arrested.

A day later, Dixon about “what an intense day” Sunday was on Monday morning, though the photo accompanying it makes it seem like he was talking about the pole—not the robbery.

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