Autosport – 22 August 2019

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Will Power collected his

first winner’s trophy

of the season

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POWERED BY

RESULTS ROUND 13/16, POCONO (USA), 18 AUGUST (128 LAPS – 320.000 MILES)

GRID (set according to championship positions)

1 Newgarden; 2 Rossi; 3 Pagenaud; 4 Dixon; 5 Power;

6 Hunter-Reay; 7 Sato; 8 Rahal; 9 Rosenqvist;

10 Hinchcliffe; 11 Bourdais; 12 Pigot; 13 Ferrucci;

14 Herta; 15 Carpenter; 16 Ericsson; 17 Andretti;

18 Veach; 19 Kanaan; 20 Leist; 21 Kimball; 22 Daly.

CHAMPIONSHIP

1 Newgarden 535; 2 Rossi 500; 3 Pagenaud 495; 4 Dixon

483; 5 Power 407; 6 Hunter-Reay 344; 7 Rahal 334; 8 Sato

331; 9 Rosenqvist 304; 10 Bourdais 300.

POS DRIVER TEAM / CAR TIME

1 Will Power (AUS) Team Penske / Dallara-Chevrolet 1h53m45.8296s

2 Scott Dixon (NZL) Chip Ganassi Racing / Dallara-Honda +5.4688s

3 Simon Pagenaud (FRA) Team Penske / Dallara-Chevrolet +7.0950s

4 Santino Ferrucci (USA) Dale Coyne Racing / Dallara-Honda +9.4697s

5 Josef Newgarden (USA) Team Penske / Dallara-Chevrolet +10.1771s

6 Ed Carpenter (USA) Ed Carpenter Racing / Dallara-Chevrolet +15.4239s

7 Sebastien Bourdais (FRA) Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser Sullivan / Dallara-Honda +19.1641s

8 Tony Kanaan (BRA) AJ Foyt Enterprises / Dallara-Chevrolet +23.3941s

9 Graham Rahal (USA) Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing / Dallara-Honda +25.2060s

10 Charlie Kimball (USA) Carlin / Dallara-Chevrolet +27.4361s

11 Conor Daly (USA) Carlin / Dallara-Chevrolet +29.2835s

12 Marcus Ericsson (SWE) Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports / Dallara-Honda +32.6051s

13 Zach Veach (USA) Andretti Autosport / Dallara-Honda -1 lap

14 Matheus Leist (BRA) AJ Foyt Enterprises / Dallara-Chevrolet -1 lap

15 Marco Andretti (USA) Andretti Herta Autosport / Dallara-Honda -2 laps

16 Colton Herta (USA) Harding Steinbrenner Racing / Dallara-Honda 72 laps-accident

17 Spencer Pigot (USA) Ed Carpenter Racing / Dallara-Chevrolet 39 laps- accident

18 Alexander Rossi (USA) Andretti Autosport / Dallara-Honda -89 laps

19 Ryan Hunter-Reay (USA) Andretti Autosport / Dallara-Honda 25 laps- accident

20 James Hinchcliffe (CAN) Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports / Dallara-Honda 19 laps- accident

21 Takuma Sato (JPN) Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing / Dallara-Honda 0 laps- accident

22 Felix Rosenqvist (SWE) Chip Ganassi Racing / Dallara-Honda 0 laps- accident

Winner’s average speed 168.771mph. Fastest lap Power 41.7287s, 215.679mph.

to hospital but later cleared and released.
The race was red-flagged but, under
yellow before the restart, Power picked up
debris, giving him a slow puncture that sent
him to the pits and dropped him towards
the rear of the now 17-car field. He worked
his way up to 12th in the first stint, while
Pagenaud and Dixon pulled away from
Newgarden, but Power went longer than
his rivals, yet pitted just in time before the
pitlane closed due to Spencer Pigot hitting
the Turn 1 wall. With the field at reduced
pace, Power was able to emerge second,
behind Pagenaud, and went with him at
the restart, briefly taking the lead and
then settling in behind him to save fuel.
Towards the end of that second stint,
Power got around Pagenaud, who was briefly
held up by the repaired but many-laps-
down car of Hinchcliffe, but running longer
on this occasion cost him: Colton Herta had
shunted at Turn 2, and the pits were closed
before Power – and other long-runners
Tony Kanaan, Charlie Kimball and Conor
Daly – were able to stop.
When the pits opened, they all stopped
and Power only dropped to seventh. At the
restart he and Ed Carpenter swiftly demoted
Sebastien Bourdais and Newgarden, before
Power also got around Carpenter.
That left Power in fourth for what would
prove to be the penultimate stint, just
before he put on his decisive race-winning
clinic over the final 15 laps. He was able to
lead home Dixon, Pagenaud, Ferrucci and
series leader Newgarden.
DAVID MALSHER

ALL PHOTOGRAPHY

Power led

last 15 laps of

incident-packed

event before

lightning and rain

stopped race