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After four races in 2023, defending Indycar champion Will Power has just one podium—this past weekend at Barber—and sits seventh in points. While he hasn’t won a race since last year at Detroit, after the last race Power stated he was pleased and optimistic about his season, both now and going forward.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a bad start of the season at all. I’ve been happy with all the results except for one, which was Texas. You can’t win ’em all. In fact, it’s very difficult to win one or two in a season. You just have to keep racking up good finishes.”
With this past weekend in the books, Power has three top-tens from four races heading into the Month of May, and good momentum for the GMR Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500.
While Power has two wins and four podium finishes in the last six races on the road course, the 2018 winner hasn’t finished in the top ten at the 500 since 2019, and his lone finish outside the top ten this season was 16th at Texas, the only other superspeedway on the calendar.
“Indy is a very, very different animal in terms of the 500. Obviously you have the Grand Prix before that. But, yeah, the 500 is a very standalone, tough, unique event. Yeah, we’re hoping to be in the game this year. We’ve been pretty disappointed with the performance the last few years.”
Power and Team Penske will be working to get their form back up when the green flag flies on Memorial Day weekend.
“We’ve done a lot of work.[…] I’ve just got a good group around me making the right decisions in the race. It is a real process to put a whole race weekend together without mistakes. That’s what I’ve worked very hard on over the last couple years.”
