Gallery: The 2018 IndyCar season review in photos

It was another thrilling year for the Verizon IndyCar Series which delivered drama, spills and thrills on-track as eight different winners took the checkered flag in 2018, which ended in a last-race shoot-out for the title which eventually went to Scott Dixon, who trumped Alexander Rossi by 57 points.

The green flag drops on the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series season opener at St Pete Robert Wickens stormed to his debut pole position Only for it all to end in the wall from the lead with 3 laps to go after a tap from Alexander Rossi Josef Newgarden claimed victory at the final race in Phoenix Alexander Rossi was completely unstoppable in Long Beach Sunday's race in Alabama had to be postponed until the next day as conditions were so sodden Josef Newgarden gambled with the rain again on Monday to claim another win in 2018 Scott Dixon and Robert Wickens couldn't do anything about the pace of Will Power in the Indy GP James Hinchcliffe cut a dejected figure in the paddock after failing to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 A packed grid ahead of the 102nd running of the Indianapolis 500 Ed Carpenter took pole and lead the field away for the opening exchanges of the famous race Danica Patrick's final race of her career ended in the wall of Turn 2 Will Power lets his emotions fly after finally claiming victory at the Indianapolis 500 Scott Dixon finally gets his first win of 2018 in Detroit Race 1 Ryan Hunter-Reay takes a swig and swim after claiming his first win since Pocono 2015 in Detroit Race 2 Scott Dixon heads Simon Pagenaud en route to victory at Texas Motor Speedway Josef Newgarden leads the field away as the second half of season got underway at Road America Josef Newgarden led all but two laps en route to his third and final win of 2018 James Hinchcliffe eased the pain of missing out on the Indy 500 with a win in Iowa Heavy amounts of tyre marbles on the final corner at Toronto would play a huge role in the race and championship Josef Newgarden hit the tyre marbles on the final corner during a restart damaging his car, allowing Scott Dixon to take the lead Scott Dixon went on to win the race and left Exhibition Place with a 62 point lead in the Championship Alexander Rossi led the field away with a contentious race start at Mid-Ohio Alexander Rossi dominated Mid-Ohio with a two-stop strategy as others tried and failed to follow suit The last shot of Robert Wickens before his sickening accident in Turn 2 at Pocono Repairs to the Turn 2 fencing took nearly two hours before the race was resumed A late-season fightback by Alexander Rossi continued as he dominated in Pocono Will Power won in Gateway with a charge back through the field with a late pit call as others tried to manage fuel to the end No one was injured in the first lap pile-up at PIR as Marco Andretti rolls his #98 car Scott Dixon was caught up in the first lap melee and his car was left battle-scarred as he came back to finish fifth Takuma Sato clinched a superb win at PIR with a strategy gamble to hold off Ryan Hunter-Reay and Sebastien Bourdais Moments after the green flag fell in Sonoma, Alexander Rossi hit Marco Andretti and fell to the back after fitting a new front wing Ryan Hunter-Reay won in Sonoma, but it was Scott Dixon who claimed second to win a fifth IndyCar title

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