IndyCar: Will Power dominates 2019 Grand Prix of Portland

Will Power dominated the 2019 IndyCar season’s penultimate race at Portland International Raceway, the Grand Prix of Portland.

After starting the 2019 IndyCar season with no victories in the first 13 races, Team Penske’s Will Power has now collected two victories in the last three races.

After winning the race at Pocono Raceway but crashing out of the race at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, Power took the checkered flag to win the season’s penultimate race, the Grand Prix of Portland, at Portland International Raceway.

This victory is the 37th victory of Power’s career, tying him for sixth place on the all-time wins list with Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan’s Sebastien Bourdais.

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Power started this 105-lap race around the 12-turn, 1.945-mile (3.130-kilometer) Portland International Raceway natural terrain road course in Portland, Oregon in place in second place in his #12 Chevrolet, and he won it by 2.7885 seconds over in Chip Ganassi Racing rookie Felix Rosenqvist in second in his #10 Honda.

Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi was the highest finishing driver of the championship contenders in third place in his #27 Honda. Harding Steinbrenner Racing rookie Colton Herta finished in fourth in his #88 Honda after starting from the pole position.

Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden, the leader of the championship standings, extended his lead in the standings by finishing in fifth place in his #2 Chevrolet.

Ed Carpenter Racing’s Spencer Pigot, Team Penske’s Simon Pagenaud, A.J. Foyt Enterprises’ Matheus Leist, Bourdais and Carlin’s Charlie Kimball rounded out the top 10 by finishing in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #21 Chevrolet, #22 Chevrolet, #4 Chevrolet, #18 Honda and #23 Chevrolet, respectively.

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon appeared to have the best chance to win this race after taking the lead from Herta on lap 37 and leading 11 laps, but a mechanical failure prevented him from launching himself back into contention for the race victory…and for the championship. He ended up finishing three laps off the lead lap in 16th place in his #9 Honda.

Power led more laps than anybody else in the field with 52 laps led. aside of Power, Herta and Dixon, two other drivers, Rosenqvist and Bourdais, led at least one lap of the race. These five drivers exchanged the lead seven times.

The race featured three caution flag periods, and the first two arrived early on. A multi-car wreck in the first turn on the first lap caused a lengthy caution flag period before a two-car wreck took place in the same location shortly after the ensuing restart.

The final caution flag period of the race took place late when Dale Coyne Racing rookie Santino Ferrucci slowed to a stop on the front straightaway with a mechanical issue.

All nine drivers whose cars were directly involved in some kind of incident today were Honda drivers. The lowest finishing Chevrolet driver, Ed Carpenter Racing Scuderia Corsa’s Ed Jones, finished in 14th place in his #20 Chevrolet. Of the 23 drivers who started the race, 16 finished it and 10 finished on the lead lap.

Here are the full race results of the 2019 Grand Prix of Portland at Portland International Raceway.

Race Results
1st – Will Power
2nd – Felix Rosenqvist
3rd – Alexander Rossi
4th – Colton Herta
5th – Josef Newgarden
6th – Spencer Pigot
7th – Simon Pagenaud
8th – Matheus Leist
9th – Sebastien Bourdais
10th – Charlie Kimball
11th – Max Chilton
12th – Tony Kanaan
13th – Marco Andretti
14th – Ed Jones
15th – Takuma Sato
16th – Scott Dixon
17th – Santino Ferrucci
18th – Ryan Hunter-Reay
19th – Jack Harvey
20th – James Hinchcliffe
21st – Conor Daly
22nd – Zach Veach
23rd – Graham Rahal

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Only the Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey remains on the 2019 IndyCar schedule, and this race is not scheduled to take place for another three weeks. NBC is set to broadcast the season finale live from WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, September 22, and the race is scheduled to get underway shortly thereafter at 3:00 p.m. ET.