IndyCar: Will Will Power win his third consecutive Grand Prix of Indianapolis?

By Asher Fair | May 7, 2019

SONOMA, CA - SEPTEMBER 14: Will Power of Australia driver of the #12 Team Penske Chevrolet during practice for the Verizon IndyCar Series Sonoma Grand Prix at Sonoma Raceway on September 14, 2018 in Sonoma, California. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images) /

Will Power has won both of the last two IndyCar races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. Will he make it three in a row this weekend?

Team Penske’s Will Power has won both of the last two IndyCar races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, meaning that he is set to go for his third consecutive victory at the track in this Saturday’s race, the IndyCar Grand Prix.

The last race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course that was won by a driver other than Power was held in May of 2016. Team Penske’s Simon Pagenaud won this race. Power, meanwhile, finished it in 10th place in his #12 Chevrolet.

Power also won the race at the 13-turn, 2.439-mile (3.925-kilometer) Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course in Speedway, Indiana in the 2015 season, meaning that he has earned victories in three of the last four races at the track and it set to go for his fourth victory in the last five races there in this Saturday’s race.

In the 2017 race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, the Grand Prix of Indianapolis, Power started from the pole position and was one of only two drivers to lead the race at any point.

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Power led 61 of the race’s 85 laps while teammate Helio Castroneves led the other 24 laps. Power’s pit strategy prevailed while Castroneves’s did not, relegating him to a fifth place finish. The race featured a total of four lead changes.

Power ended up winning the race by 5.283 seconds over Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon in second place. Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay and Team Penske’s Simon Pagenaud also finished ahead of Castroneves by finishing in third and fourth, respectively.

In the 2018 race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the IndyCar Grand Prix, Power once again started from the pole position and led the majority of the race’s 85 laps, this time by leading 56 of them. Power won the race by 2.244 seconds over Dixon in second. This race, however, featured a total of nine lead changes, and six drivers aside of Power led at least one lap of the race. Dixon was not one of them.

Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ Robert Wickens led 20 laps while Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Graham Rahal led three laps, Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi and Juncos Racing’s Kyle Kaiser each led two laps and Dale Coyne Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais and Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden each led one lap.

Will Power earn his third consecutive victory at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course in this Saturday’s race, or will a driver other than Power find victory lane at the track for the first time since Pagenaud did so in May of 2016 in his #22 Chevrolet?

Only two drivers, Power and Pagenaud, have ever been victorious in any of the five races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. Considering the fact that Power has not only won but dominated the last two and three of the last four races at the track, he should be considered the favorite to get the job done once again this Saturday.

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Will Will Power earn his third consecutive victory in an IndyCar race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course by winning this weekend’s race? This race, the IndyCar Grand Prix, is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 11, and it is set to be broadcast live on NBC beginning at 3:00 p.m. ET.