IndyCar Team Power Rankings after 2019 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Race 1

How do the IndyCar Team Power Rankings look following the 2019 season’s seventh race, Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Race 1, at the Raceway on Belle Isle?

After four different teams won the first four races of the 17-race 2019 IndyCar season, Team Penske have been the only team to visit victory lane in any of the three races that have been contested since then.

After Simon Pagenaud won the two races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the IndyCar Grand Prix on the track’s road course and the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 on the track’s oval, Josef Newgarden earned his second victory of the season by winning the season’s seventh race, Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Race 1, at the Raceway on Belle Isle.

Newgarden’s victory in this 43-lap race, which was originally scheduled to be a 70-lap race but became a 75-minute race as a result of rain, around the 14-turn, 2.35-mile (3.782-kilometer) Raceway on Belle Isle temporary street circuit on the streets of Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan was Team Penske’s fourth victory of the season.

Newgarden earned his first victory of the season by winning the season opener on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida.

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With three consecutive victories, Team Penske now sit three victories clear ahead of the other three teams that have been victorious this season. These three teams, Harding Steinbrenner Racing, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing and Andretti Autosport, have each won one race so far this season and are tied for second place on the wins list behind Team Penske as a result of it.

Team Penske have now been responsible for each of the last 21 victories that have been earned by Chevrolet. The last time a non-Team Penske Chevrolet team won a race was late in the 2016 season when Scott Dixon won the race at Watkins Glen International driving for Chip Ganassi Racing, then a Chevrolet team. The last time a non-Team Penske Chevrolet team that are still a Chevrolet team won a race was in the 2016 season when Newgarden won the race at Iowa Speedway driving for Ed Carpenter Racing.

How did Team Penske’s third consecutive victory and their fourth overall victory of the 2019 season affect the IndyCar Team Power Rankings? Here are the formulated IndyCar Team Power Rankings and the non-formulated IndyCar Team Power Rankings following Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Race 1.

To see how the formulated IndyCar Team Power Rankings are calculated, click here.

Formulated IndyCar Team Power Rankings

Rank – Team, Manufacturer – [Last Rank (Trend)]
1st – Team Penske, Chevrolet – [1st (0)]
2nd – Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda – [3rd (+1)]
3rd – Andretti Autosport, Honda – [4th (+1)]
4th – Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda – [2nd (-2)]
5th – Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet – [5th (0)]
6th – Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda – [7th (+1)]
7th – Dale Coyne Racing, Honda – [6th (-1)]
8th – A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet – [8th (0)]
9th – Harding Steinbrenner Racing, Honda – [9th (0)]
10th – Carlin, Chevrolet – [10th (0)]

Biggest Movers
Up: Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Andretti Autosport, Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports (+1)
Down: Chip Ganassi Racing (-2)

Non-formulated IndyCar Team Power Rankings

Rank – Team, Manufacturer – [Last Rank (Trend)]
1st – Team Penske, Chevrolet – [1st (0)]
2nd – Andretti Autosport, Honda – [2nd (0)]
3rd – Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda – [3rd (0)]
4th – Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda – [4th (0)]
5th – Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda – [7th (+2)]
6th – Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet – [6th (0)]
7th – Dale Coyne Racing, Honda – [5th (-2)]
8th – Harding Steinbrenner Racing, Honda – [9th (+1)]
9th – A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet – [8th (-1)]
10th – Carlin, Chevrolet – [10th (0)]

Biggest Movers
Up: Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports (+2)
Down: Dale Coyne Racing (-2)

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The Raceway on Belle Isle is scheduled to host the next race on the 2019 IndyCar schedule as well. This race, Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Race 2, is set to be broadcast live on NBC beginning at 3:00 p.m. ET, and it is scheduled to get underway at 3:50 p.m. ET.