Race Control – May 2019

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204th win all time by the Indy Car team, the most in the sport, and returned
Chevrolet to that top step of the podium after the engine supplier went

winless on temporary street circuits last season.
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P1 Award pole sitter Will Power. Content to run in the top three early on,
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lay down key quicker laps on an open track, so that when he pitted for fuel
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a new set of Firestone alternate tires while his nearest competitors were on
the harder primary tires.

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the advantage to more than seven seconds before Dixon trimmed the gap

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