IndyCar: Driver Power Rankings after 2018 Kohler Grand Prix
By Asher Fair
How do the 20 full-time IndyCar drivers stack up against one another following the 10th race of the 2018 season, the Kohler Grand Prix, at Road America?
Road America played host to the 10th of 17 races on the 2018 IndyCar schedule last Sunday, and that race was won by Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden. Newgarden now has three victories so far this season in his #1 Chevrolet.
Newgarden dominated the 55-lap race around the 14-turn, 4.048-mile (6.515-kilometer) Road America road course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The only two laps of the race that he did not lead were the two laps following his first pit stop, as Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon stayed out two laps longer in his #9 Honda than Newgarden did.
Through 10 races so far this season, six different drivers have won at least one race. Three drivers entered the Kohler Grand Prix having won more than one race so far this season, with all three of those drivers, who were Newgarden, Dixon and Team Penske’s Will Power, having won two of the season’s first nine races.
Newgarden became the first driver to reach three victories in the 2018 season thanks to his dominant performance at Road America. He also won the race at ISM Raceway earlier this season after holding off Schmidt Peterson Motorsports rookie Robert Wickens in a thrilling finish, and he won the race at Barber Motorsports earlier this season in dominant fashion as well.
The race at Barber Motorsports Park was similar to the race at Road America in that the only times during which Newgarden was passed in that race were when he was in the pits.
How did the action from the race at Road America affect the IndyCar Driver Power Rankings? Here are the formulated IndyCar Driver Power Rankings and the non-formulated IndyCar Driver Power Rankings after Newgarden’s third victory of the 2018 season.
To see how the formulated IndyCar Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.