IndyCar: Oval Track Standings After Gateway
By Asher Fair
The sixth and final oval track race of the 2017 IndyCar season is officially in the books. How do the final oval track championship standings look?
Coming off of the sixth and final oval track race of the 2017 IndyCar season at Gateway, Helio Castroneves is the 2017 champion of the oval track championship standings.
Castroneves 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.
He took the oval track championship from Will Power in the final oval race of the 2017 season, the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Illinois.
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He did so by finishing the race in 4th place after leading a bunch of laps, while Will Power crashed on the initial start of the race after he rolled off in the pole position.
Josef Newgarden ended up winning the race, which gave him a major boost in the oval track standings to end the season.
Which other drivers jumped in the final oval track standings this season, and who fell down a few spots?
Have a look below at the final oval track standings of the 2017 IndyCar season.
IndyCar Oval Standings
| Rank | Driver | Car, Team, Engine/Aero Kit | Points | Behind |
| 1 | Helio Castroneves | #3, Team Penske, Chevrolet | 252 | – |
| 2 | Will Power | #12, Team Penske, Chevrolet | 232 | -20 |
| 3 | Tony Kanaan | #10, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda | 227 | -25 |
| 4 | Simon Pagenaud | #1, Team Penske, Chevrolet | 226 | -26 |
| 5 | Takuma Sato | #26, Andretti Autosport, Honda | 214 | -38 |
| 6 | Scott Dixon | #9, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda | 201 | -51 |
| 7 | Josef Newgarden | #2, Team Penske, Chevrolet | 198 | -54 |
| 8 | Alexander Rossi | #98, Andretti Herta Autosport, Honda | 197 | -55 |
| 9 | JR Hildebrand | #21, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet | 179 | -73 |
| 10 | Ed Carpenter | #20, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet | 169 | -83 |
| 11 | Graham Rahal | #15, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda | 169 | -83 |
| 12 | Ed Jones | #19, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda | 167 | -85 |
| 13 | Marco Andretti | #27, Andretti Autosport, Honda | 166 | -86 |
| 14 | Max Chilton | #8, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda | 164 | -88 |
| 15 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | #28, Andretti Autosport, Honda | 138 | -114 |
| 16 | Carlos Munoz | #14, AJ Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet | 134 | -118 |
| 17 | James Hinchcliffe | #5, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda | 122 | -130 |
| 18 | Charlie Kimball | #83, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda | 120 | -132 |
| 19 | Conor Daly | #4, AJ Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet | 117 | -135 |
| 20 | Gabby Chaves | #88, Harding Racing, Chevrolet | 98 | -154 |
| 21 | Mikhail Aleshin | #7, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda | 92 | -160 |
| 22 | Juan Pablo Montoya | #22, Team Penske, Chevrolet | 73 | -179 |
| 23 | Sebastian Saavedra | #7, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda | 61 | -191 |
| 24 | Fernando Alonso | #29, Andretti Autosport, Honda | 47 | -205 |
| 25 | Oriol Servia | #16, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda | 40 | -212 |
| 26 | Pippa Mann | #63, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda | 32 | -220 |
| 27 | Spencer Pigot | #20, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet | 29 | -223 |
| 28 | Esteban Gutierrez | #18, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda | 25 | -227 |
| 29 | Jay Howard | #77, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda | 24 | -228 |
| 30 | Sage Karam | #24, Dreyer and Reinbold Racing, Chevrolet | 23 | -229 |
| 31 | James Davison | #18, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda | 21 | -231 |
| 32 | Jack Harvey | #7, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda | 17 | -235 |
| 33 | Tristan Vautier | #18, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda | 15 | -237 |
| 34 | Buddy Lazier | #44, Lazier Partners Racing, Chevrolet | 14 | -238 |
| 35 | Zach Veach | #40, AJ Foyt Enterprises, Chevolet | 12 | -240 |
| 36 | Sebastien Bourdais | #18, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda | 11 | -241 |
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