Going back to last June, Will Power has won the last three IndyCar superspeedway races. Will he win his fourth in a row this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway?
The last IndyCar superspeedway race that was not won by Team Penske’s Will Power was the 2017 Indianapolis 500, which took place more than one year ago now and was won by Takuma Sato. Since the 2017 Indy 500, there have been three more IndyCar superspeedway races at three different superspeedways, and Power has been victorious in each of them.
Heading into last year’s race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas in June, the race that was the first superspeedway race following the 2017 Indy 500, only four of Power’s career IndyCar victories, of which he had 30 at the time, had come in oval races.
Of Power’s four victories in oval races at that time, three had come in superspeedway races. Of those three victories, two had come in full-length superspeedway races, as his first career superspeedway race win (and oval win) came in a half-distance race at Texas back in the 2011 season.
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Power’s only other three career oval race victories that he had at that time came at Auto Club Speedway, a superspeedway in Fontana, California, in the 2013 season, the Milwaukee Mile, a short oval track in West Allis, Wisconsin, in the 2014 season, and Pocono Raceway, another superspeedway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, in the 2016 season.
Power went on to win last year’s superspeedway race at the four-turn, 1.44-mile Texas Motor Speedway oval after leading 180 of its 248 laps. He then won last year’s superspeedway race at the three-turn, 2.5-mile Pocono Raceway triangle in August after leading 34 of its 200 laps for his second consecutive superspeedway race victory.
Most recently, Power won his first Indy 500 in his 11th attempt after leading 59 of the race’s 200 laps around the four-turn, 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in Speedway, Indiana not even two weeks ago to claim his third consecutive superspeedway race victory.
There are several other drivers in the field who are fully capable of winning this Saturday night’s race at Texas Motor Speedway. But with Power having led 180 of the last 248 laps (72.58%) at Texas, 273 of the last 648 laps (42.13%) in superspeedway races and the final lap of the last three superspeedway races, he is the clear favorite to get to victory lane this weekend, which would give him his fourth consecutive win in a superspeedway race.
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Will Will Power win his fourth consecutive IndyCar superspeedway race this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway? Find out by tuning in to NBC Sports Network at 8:00 p.m. ET this Saturday, June 9 for the live broadcast of the 2018 DXC Technology 600.