Can he maintain the exemplary focus that’s been utilized at every race this season and bid for a second championship? The summer months are about to get interesting. Power was not going to be denied at Belle Isle, and thanks to his peerless drive the championship lead has returned to his hands. Graham Rahal’s weekend of misery was ended on lap 2 as he slammed the rear of his car into the Turn 2 wall and suffered too much damage to continue. Foyt Racing’s Kyle Kirkwood hit the wall on cold tires and retired on lap 49. Helio Castroneves had terminal electrical problems with his Meyer Shank Racing car that ruined a strong run after 21 laps, and after pitting from second, A.J. Where VeeKay fell from 10th to 16th with his crash on the closing lap, Penske’s Scott McLaughlin fell to last early in the race when he spun and lost a lap while trying to get the car turned around he’d finish 19th. Like Power’s big 15-place improvement, Ganassi’s Alex Palou jumped from 18th to sixth using the same strategy as Dixon, and from there, most of the field left Detroit feeling somewhat or completely disappointed in their days. Arrow McLaren SP’s Pato O’Ward was in a similar position after starting and finishing fifth. Team Penske polesitter Josef Newgarden was one who struggled a bit after expecting a caution to assist his day and finished fourth. “But kudos to Will he was aggressive at the start, jumped us, and he was on the same strategy. “Better than I thought being one of the lucky few that started on the, you could watch it play out,” Dixon said after recording his best finish of the season. 9 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda improved from a ninth-place start, but didn’t have the outright pace to keep up with Power or Rossi. The final member of the podium was Scott Dixon, who started on primaries like Power but went for alternates in the middle stint and closed on primaries. Yet again, we come here with an amazing car but can’t quite get the win, but it was a good recovery from yesterday. “That’s hard to do at the end to hang on.
“I think one more lap would have been really interesting, but you gotta give credit to the No. 27 Andretti Autosport Honda, and while he was disappointed to finish second, the effort moved him to seventh in the championship standings. The unrelenting pace - fastest in the history of the race - is what allowed Rossi to put in his most impressive drive in quite some time in the No.
It wasn’t the only adversity of the day, but none of the incidents required safety cars or stoppages. Nothing could derail Power as the race went green for all but a few final moments after he crossed the start/finish line, and well behind him Ed Carpenter Racing’s Rinus VeeKay clipped the wall and nosed into the tires at Turn 6. It was redemption for last year I was waiting for something to happen in the last 10 laps.” Really stoked to get the Chevy into victory lane. “I just drove it as straight as I could,” Power said after struggling on alternates to close the race. Only Rossi, who started on Firestone’s faster but less durable alternate tires and dove in almost immediately to take primaries and switch to a three-stop strategy, was able to make it work as he cut a 16.0s deficit down to 1.0027s at the checkered flag. The 16th-place starter had no problems on Sunday, as he and others who started deep in the pack used a two-stop strategy that began with using Firestone’s primary tires, and ended up being rewarded in the end. 12 Team Penske Chevy refused to fire on pit lane, who put on a masterclass in tire conservation. It was a race of strategies in which Power’s massive lead was cut to 1.0s at the checkered flag as Alexander Rossi did everything he could to earn his first win in nearly three years.īut it was Power, who was on the road to victory during last year’s Detroit Round 1 and lost the lead during a red flag when his No. “Redemption!” was Will Power’s exclamation over the radio as he won a tense thriller to claim the final Detroit Grand Prix on the streets of Belle Isle.
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