With only one race remaining on the 2018 IndyCar schedule, how do the sport’s 20 full-time drivers rank against one another?
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Takuma Sato earned his first victory of the 17-race IndyCar season in the season’s 16th and penultimate race, the Grand Prix of Portland, at Portland International Raceway.
Sato won the 105-lap race around the 12-turn, 1.967-mile (3.166-kilometer) Portland International Raceway road course in Portland, Oregon after on the outside of the 10th of 13 rows on the starting grid.
Sato started the race in 20th place out of 25 drivers before going on to win it. No driver had won an IndyCar race since starting that far back in the field since Sebastien Bourdais won the 2017 season opener on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida after starting in 21st (last).
After winning just one race, the 2013 race on the streets of Long Beach, California, in his first seven seasons as a full-time IndyCar driver, Sato has now earned one victory in each of the last two seasons.
Last year, Sato broke a win drought of over four full seasons (71 races) by winning the 101st running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. His victory in the Grand Prix of Portland ended the 26-race win drought that he had been on since then.
How did Sato’s first victory since last year’s Indy 500 affect the IndyCar Driver Power Rankings? Here are the formulated IndyCar Driver Power Rankings and the non-formulated IndyCar Driver Power Rankings with 16 of the 17 races on this year’s schedule having been completed.
To see how the formulated IndyCar Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.