IndyCar: Will Will Power win a race in 2019?

With five races remaining on the 2019 IndyCar schedule, Will Power is still winless. Will he win a race before the season reaches its conclusion?

Entering any given IndyCar season, there are certain drivers who you almost take for granted as drivers who are going to find victory lane at least once, likely several times, throughout the season.

One of those drivers is naturally Team Penske’s Will Power, whose 31 wins since the start of the 2010 season make him the winningest driver of the decade. The 38-year-old Australian also won the 2014 championship and the 2018 Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

He entered the season having won at least one race in each of his 11 seasons of IndyCar competition going back to 2008, and he also won two races in the 2007 Champ Car season, effectively meaning he entered the year on a 12-year win streak.

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But with 12 of the 17 races on the 2019 IndyCar schedule having been contested, Power has not found victory lane. He is currently riding a 14-race win drought, as he last earned a victory in the race at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway.

Will he win a race before the 2019 season concludes?

Power has experienced a ton of misfortune this season, so the fact that he sits in fifth place in the championship standings with three podium finishes, including a season-high finish of second at Road America, is actually somewhat of a surprise, but it stands to reason considering the fact that his average starting position entering the season’s 13th race, today’s Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, is 6.83, which is the fourth best among all drivers. It isn’t like he has lacked speed.

In fact, this average starting position is set to officially be reduced to 6.38 later today, as he took the pole position for the Honda Indy 200. This pole position is his series-high third pole position of the season.

For that reason, it is easy to see him winning at least one of the season’s final five races. He has generally been fast at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course despite the fact that it is one of the few tracks at which he has never won, and he has won two of the last three races at Pocono Raceway, recording an average finish of 1.33 there in those three starts with no finishes outside of the top two.

As stated above, he won last year’s race at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway. He has only made one start at Portland International Raceway, which resulted in a disastrous result of 21st place after he took the pole position for the race, and he has never previously competed at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

As has previously been documented, we have seen Power go on lengthy win droughts before, even in the last few years. In fact, in the last seven years alone, he has gone on two win droughts of more than one year, so his current win drought should really not be all that alarming.

Expect Power’s win streak to become a 13-year win streak by the time the 2019 season comes to an end.

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Will Will Power get back to victory lane before the 2019 IndyCar season wraps up, or will this season end up being his first season without a victory in his career?