IndyCar: Team Power Rankings after 2018 Chevrolet Dual in Detroit Race #1
By Asher Fair
How do the 10 full-time IndyCar teams stack up against one another following the seventh race of the 2018 season, the first race of the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit?
Scott Dixon drove his #9 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda to a victory for the first time in the 2018 IndyCar season by winning the season’s seventh race, which was the first race of the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit.
Dixon led 39 of the race’s 70 laps around the 14-turn, 2.35-mile temporary street circuit on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan en route to winning the event, which made Chip Ganassi Racing the fourth different team to win a race so far this season.
Chip Ganassi Racing’s win was the first victory by a team not named Team Penske since the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, which took place in the middle of April and was won by Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi.
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Team Penske drivers had won three races in a row coming into the first race on the streets of Belle Isle, and they had four wins combined coming into the race. Aside of Team Penske, only two other teams had won a race so far this season before Dixon earned Chip Ganassi Racing their first win of the season on Belle Isle.
While Team Penske have four victories so far this season and the three other teams that have won a race have just one, Team Penske have really been the only bright spot for Chevrolet so far this season. However, in the first race of the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit, there were no bright spots for Chevrolet, as Honda drivers representing three different Honda teams swept the top six positions in the finishing order.
Only once has more than one Chevrolet driver finished a race in the top five so far this season. That race was the Indianapolis 500, when Team Penske’s Will Power won the race in his #12 Chevrolet and held off Ed Carpenter Racing’s Ed Carpenter in second place in his #20 Chevrolet. Honda drivers rounded out the rest of the top five.
How did Dixon’s win and the rest of the action from the first race of the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit affect the IndyCar Team Power Rankings? Here are the formulated IndyCar Team Power Rankings and the non-formulated IndyCar Team Power Rankings after the seventh race of the 2018 season.
To see how the formulated IndyCar Team Power Rankings are calculated, click here.
Formulated IndyCar Team Power Rankings
| Rank | Team | Manufacturer | Last Rank | Trend |
| 1 | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Andretti Autosport | Honda | 3 | +1 |
| 3 | Team Penske | Chevrolet | 2 | -1 |
| 4 | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | Honda | 4 | 0 |
| 5 | Dale Coyne Racing | Honda | 6 | +1 |
| 6 | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | Honda | 5 | -1 |
| 7 | Ed Carpenter Racing | Chevrolet | 8 | +1 |
| 8 | A.J. Foyt Enterprises | Chevrolet | 7 | -1 |
| 9 | Harding Racing | Chevrolet | 9 | 0 |
| 10 | Carlin Motorsport | Chevrolet | 10 | 0 |
Biggest Movers
Up: Andretti Autosport, Dale Coyne Racing, Ed Carpenter Racing (+1)
Down: Team Penske, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, A.J. Foyt Enterprises (-1)
Non-formulated IndyCar Team Power Rankings
| Rank | Team | Manufacturer | Last Rank | Trend |
| 1 | Andretti Autosport | Honda | 2 | +1 |
| 2 | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 3 | +1 |
| 3 | Team Penske | Chevrolet | 1 | -2 |
| 4 | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | Honda | 5 | +1 |
| 5 | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | Honda | 4 | -1 |
| 6 | Dale Coyne Racing | Honda | 6 | 0 |
| 7 | Ed Carpenter Racing | Chevrolet | 7 | 0 |
| 8 | A.J. Foyt Enterprises | Chevrolet | 8 | 0 |
| 9 | Harding Racing | Chevrolet | 9 | 0 |
| 10 | Carlin Motorsport | Chevrolet | 10 | 0 |
Biggest Movers
Up: Andretti Autosport, Chip Ganassi Racing, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports (+1)
Down: Team Penske (-2)
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The next IndyCar race is the second race of the 2018 Chevrolet Dual in Detroit, and it is scheduled to take place tomorrow. It is set to be broadcast live on ABC at 3:30 p.m. ET.