IndyCar: Oval Track Standings After Pocono

The fifth oval track race of the 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series season is officially in the books. With just one of the six oval track races remaining, how are the oval track championship standings shaping out?

Coming off of the fifth oval track race of the 2017 IndyCar season at Pocono, Will Power is now on top of the oval track championship standings. Power drives for Team Penske, which is one of only three teams represented in the top 5. Chip Ganassi Racing and Andretti Autosport are the other two.

Driver Standings

Will Power, #12, Team Penske, Chevrolet – 220 points (-)

Helio Castroneves, #3, Team Penske, Chevrolet – 219 points (-1)

Tony Kanaan, #10, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda – 213 points (-7)

Takuma Sato, #26, Andretti Autosport, Honda – 203 points (-17)

Simon Pagenaud, #1, Team Penske, Chevrolet – 190 points (-30)

Alexander Rossi, #98, Andretti Herta Autosport, Honda – 169 points (-651)

JR Hildebrand, #21, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet – 167 points (-53)

Scott Dixon, #9, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda – 161 points (-59)

Ed Carpenter, #20, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet – 160 points (-60)

Graham Rahal, #15, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda – 151 points (-69)

Max Chilton, #8, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda – 150 points (-70)

Ed Jones (R), #19, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda – 150 points (-70)

Marco Andretti, #27, Andretti Autosport, Honda – 150 points (-70)

Josef Newgarden, #2, Team Penske, Chevrolet – 145 points (-75)

Ryan Hunter-Reay, #28, Andretti Autosport, Honda – 123 points (-97)

Carlos Munoz, #14, AJ Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet – 112 points (-108)

James Hinchcliffe, #5, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda – 98 points (-122)

Gabby Chaves

, #88, Harding Racing, Chevrolet –

98 points (-122)

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Charlie Kimball, #83, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda – 94 points (-126)

Mikhail Aleshin, #7, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda – 92 points (-128)

Conor Daly, #4, AJ Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet – 87 points (-133)

Juan Pablo Montoya, #22, Team Penske, Chevrolet – 73 points (-147)

Fernando Alonso (R), #29, Andretti Autosport, Honda – 47 points (-173)

Sebastian Saavedra, #17, Juncos Racing, Chevrolet – 42 points (-178)

Oriol Servia, #16, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda – 40 points (-180)

Pippa Mann, #63, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda – 32 points (-188)

Spencer Pigot, #20, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet – 29 points (-191)

Esteban Gutierrez, #18, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda – 25 points (-195)

Jay Howard, #77, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda – 24 points (-196)

Sage Karam, #24, Dreyer and Reinbold Racing, Chevrolet – 23 points (-197)

James Davison, #18, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda – 21 points (-199)

Jack Harvey (R), #50, Andretti Autosport, Honda – 17 points (-203)

Tristan Vautier, #18, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda – 15 points (-205)

Buddy Lazier, #44, Lazier Partners Racing, Chevrolet – 14 points (-206)

Zach Veach, #40, AJ Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet – 12 points (-208)

Sebastien Bourdais, #18, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda – 11 points (-209)

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The next IndyCar oval track race is at Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Illinois. That race takes place on Saturday, August 26th, 2017 at 9:40 PM ET and will be broadcast live on NBC Sports Network starting 9:00 PM ET.

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