The second race this Sunday at the oval Milwaukeewon by Scott McLaughlin (Penske)it was a rollercoaster of emotions for the two main candidates for the IndyCar title. And although out of luck Alex Palou At first, things don’t end badly from then on He will enter the final race as the leader and the great favorite to reclaim the Indycar championship and add his third title.
This, because the Spanish car Alex Palou (Chip Ganassi) did not start on time due to some technical problems and started on 28 laps downand also the Australian Will Power (Penske) was the virtual leader, but lost all his advantage after that.
McLaughlin crossed the finish line first Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi) and Colton Herta (Andretti), who completed the podium.
At eleven laps, the green flag was shown and the New Zealander retained his first place. It was their third win of the season after Alabama and Iowa.
Power finished tenth and accumulated 20 pointswhile Palou managed to finish nineteenth and scratch 11 almost heroic.
The title will be decided in two weeks, at the Nashville oval, with Palou as favorite. Leader came along 525 points, 33 more than Power and 50 units over McLaughlin that with his success in Milwaukee he keeps the mathematical options but very far.
“I’m a little sad and angry right now. We couldn’t help but lose so many laps. That’s right, we tried everything to win more points, one by one, it wasn’t a good day, but it could have been worse. Let’s go to Nashville,” Palou commented. after getting off the car.
A turbulent start
In the last lap of the cars before the first green flag, the presentation offers the image of Palou’s car stopped on the asphalt, without a response. It had to be towed back to the workshop, and after the initial repairs it entered the track with six laps down.
But he had to stop again, Palou himself could even be seen running into the paddock to personally speak to his strategist Barry Wanser. When the ‘Chip Ganassi’ team finally solved the problem, The Spanish driver started his race 28 laps behind the other drivers..
According to ‘Chip Ganassi’ it is a battery problem 12 volts powering the ERS of the hybrid system.
Palou’s goal is to finish the race and score as many points as possible, each of which could be decisive for the final Grand Prix in Nashville in two weeks.
But also, with the yellow flag that also left Newgarden, he was the victim of a triple crash in the middle of the straight, the Swede Linus Lundqvist (Chip Ganassi) contacted the Mexican Pato O’Ward (Arrow McLaren) and he contacted. the oval specialist, that He hit the wall and destroyed his car, leaving him without options for the second day in a row.
Throughout the 250 laps of the Milwaukee oval there were many abandonments, mostly due to technical breakdowns: two drivers who were on the podium the previous day, like Conor Daly (Juncos Hollinger) or O’Ward himself, as well as Nolan Siegel (Arrow McLaren) or David Malukas (Meyer Shank).
O’Ward was very disappointed when he got out of his car: “It’s the gearbox. “It’s hard, very hard,” he commented.
Will Power, from heaven to hell
Power is fourthquickly took second and chased his teammate, McLaughlin, full force, knowing that Palou was not good enough. The first placewhich he achieved shortly after, I put him as the leader of the championship.
Although they were teammates, there was unfinished business between them, Power himself hitting McLaughlin in Toronto and throwing him into a wall, leaving him out of the race.
It was very clear in the mid-race pit stop, when the Australian lost first place to the New Zealander, who overtook him coming out of the pits.
Soon after, Power lost control of his car while driving under a yellow flag. and the race was neutralized, he turned around and grabbed the wall, he lost many positions, fell to eleventhlosing all the advantages he had before and of course, He is no longer the virtual leader of the championship.
Just when he seemed to be coming back, he had to stop for the second time in a row with the mechanics to change the front wing, he fell even further, to fourteenth place, and 31 points behind Palou.
Although he finished tenth in Milwaukee, at the end of the race, Power did not hide and acknowledged that he made “a lot of mistakes” this Sunday.
The general classification
- Alex Palou (Ganassi): 525 points
- Will Power (Penske): 492 points
- Scott McLaughlin (Penske): 475 points
- Colton Herta (Andretti): 462 points
- Scott Dixon (Ganassi): 443 points
Source: La Verdad
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