Will Power wins for t♒he first time in 2024 as he dominatedᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ the XPEL Grand Prix at Road America.
Power wiꦆll be joined by his two teammates on the podium as Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughꦛlin rounded out a Team Penske 1-2-3!
Will Power did not win last year. However, he looks set to take his 𝓀firs🧸t win of 2024 in four laps time, if nothing untoward happens.
1st. Will Power
2nd. Josef Newgarden
3rd. Scott McLaughlin
4th. Alex Palou
5th. Kyle Kirkwood
Despite being second on the timing screen Will Power has jumped Newgarden and McL꧅aughlin witꦓh an overcut and sits second on the timing screen, but will take the lead.
With ten laps to go it has been Team Penske domination all race and🍰 it all comes down to this between Josef Newgarden, Scott 🦹McLaughlin and Will power...
With 15 laps to go of this 55 Lap race, here is how tꩲhe top five looks:
1st. Josef Newgarden
2nd. Scott McLaughlin
3rd. Will Power
4th. Alex Palou
5th. Kyle Kirkwood
🧸After issues for McLaughlin the lead goes to Newgarden who is trying to🔜 break his team-mate, who now sits in second.
At over 180mph Josef Ne﷽wgarden touches the grass and nearly loses control of his car!
The🌃 two-time 🎃Indy500 Winner saves the car and continues to run in fourth.
30 Laps in of the 55 Lap r꧂ace and here is how the top five💦 stands:
1st. Scott McLaughlin
2nd. Josef Newgarden
3rd. Will Power
4th. Alex Palou
5th. Kyle Kirkwood
McLaughlin has chec🦋ked out at Road America⭕ as he has a 3 second lead on lap 28.
Scott Dixon is back in the pits after blistering his left rᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚear Firestone tyre and losing so much tim🍬e.
Herta pits from the lead and gi๊ves Rosenqvist the lead𒐪 of the race.
After pit stops have fi🤪ltered through here are the top five after 20 laps of racing:
1st. Colton Herta
2nd. Felix Rosenqvist
3rd. Linus Lundqvist
4th. Scott McLaughlin
5th. Josef Newgarden
After inheriting the lead from McLaughlin Newgarden now pits with⛎ Power, Dixon, O'Ward and Nolan Siegel.
On Lap 16 of 55 the leader McLaughlin pit as well a💖s Kirkwood, Rossi, Romain Grosjean and Rinus Veekay.
After 12ꦆ laps of racing here is how the🐭 top five looks:
1st. Scott McLaughlin
2nd. Kyle Kirkwood
3rd. Josef Newgarden
4th. Alexander Rossi
5th. Will Power
Once again McLaughlin steals the lead at the restart and begins stretchiℱng the field again꧒ from the third restart.
At turn 14 Simpson geꦜts punted off the track by Rasmussen and ends up in a concrete barrier. It appears the rookies race is over.
For the second restart the lead stayed the same as ⭕McLaughlin pulled away from Kirkwood. However, Josef Newgarden passed Alexander Ro♛ssi for third place.
Colton Herta takes to the rumble strips and ends up losing part of the undersid𝄹e of his car, the loose debris on the circuit ca💞used the caution.
As soon as the r🐎ace restarted McLaughl𒈔in was not hanging around as he jumped ahead of Kirkwood immediately.
After the mayhem at turn one Ky🌠le Kirkwood took the outside and grabbed the lead of t🦹he race. He will restart the race from the front.
As the 55 lap race gets underway🎶 there is drama on the exit🎀 of turn one.
The polesitter, Linus Lundqvist, gets spun out by his team-mate Marcus Armst💧rong and Colton Herta gets caught up in the mess as well.
