Power wins at Portland with defensive masterclass<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe 44-year-old two-time series winner affirmed his view that he is at the peak of his powers.<\/p>\n
With victory, Power is the only Team Penske driver this year to win a race.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s what we expect at that team,\u201d Power explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me it was business as normal, honestly. I\u2019ve been in that position so many times in my career.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike I said, I\u2019m driving the best I ever have. Simple as that. I\u2019m not slowing down. I am not slower, I am faster. My toolbox is still big as far as understanding the cars, race craft, all that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s me. I guess I\u2019m different to some people. I never stop working at it. It\u2019s a passion. I love it. That\u2019s why I\u2019m still winning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Power said it is \u201cfunny\u201d that a win would come at such an important time of his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be interesting, man,\u201d he smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously I don\u2019t know what the future holds. I think it was just very nice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel good for the whole team, I really do. Where we stand in the championship really isn\u2019t indicative of our true potential.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just been a rough year. Feel good for Chevy, as well. I think on that front they\u2019ve had a pretty bad year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole team, I can tell they\u2019re so very happy and relieved that we\u2019ve got a win on the table now.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started out pretty rough in practice, made a lot of changes, got a car that was probably not good enough for pole, but right there in that top four.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a good weekend, man.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Will Power during the Grand Prix of Portland. Image: Chris Owens<\/p>\n
When asked if the decision was in someone else\u2019s hands, Power replied, \u201cMaybe it\u2019s my decision\u201d, and said teams shouldn\u2019t have to look far to see he is one of the sport\u2019s best.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s probably good on both fronts,\u201d said Power.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won three races last year. If you\u2019re a team, if you\u2019re waiting on me to know if I\u2019m good enough, I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re thinking.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re actually waiting, I\u2019m not sure if this guy is good enough, just go back to last year and you\u2019ll f***ing know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Power was joined in the post-race press conference by Team Penske\u2019s president, Jonathan Diuguid.<\/p>\n
He stopped short of confirming Power\u2019s place at Team Penske but offered an interesting response to questions about his future at the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill\u2019s future is about 30 minutes old from winning a race,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis future\u2019s definitely bright. He did an amazing job today. Looking forward to the last two races of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
IndyCar continues on August 25 (AEST) at the Milwaukee Mile before ending at Nashville Superspeedway on September 1 (AEST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Power celebrates winning at Portland. Image: James Black Had he proved something to Roger Penske? Would the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85,48760,25988],"class_list":["post-59913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-team-penske","tag-will-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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