Track: Road America
Race: Sonsio Grand Prix of Road America presented by AMR
Date: June 12, 2022
No. 12 Verizon 5G Dallara/Chevrolet – Will Power
Start: 15th
Finish: 19th
Laps Led: 0
Point Standings: 2nd (-27 pts)
Race Rundown: Will Power and the No. 12 Verizon Chevrolet team battled through adversity after an incident with the No. 29 car in the early stages of the Sonsio Grand Prix of Road America on Sunday afternoon. A necessary pit stop was the result, which included a complete front wing change and Power restarted at the tail of the field. In true “Power fashion,” the 2014 INDYCAR SERIES champion fought all day to regain those positions and ultimately salvaged a 19th place finish after a difficult set of opening laps at Elkhart Lake. The next race for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES will take place at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, a circuit where Power won from the pole position in 2020.
Power’s Thoughts: “Yeah, no I haven’t seen (DeFrancesco). I mean, we had a fast car it’s just I kind of wondered if we changed tires when we were doing the wing. We didn’t want to go down a lap obviously. That made our day a lot harder. Yeah, nothing I could do about that one. That is Indy Car. Not the best day, you have them. Just move on to the next one. It was good on the team for at least, I got ran off on the last lap there so maybe we could have finished a little bit higher. We had plenty of push to pass, couldn’t do much about it. We’ll see if we can get the Verizon 5G Chevy to victory lane again this year. Anytime we get a victory in this series it’s so big, because it’s so hard.”
TIL NEXT TIME, I AM STILL WORKING ON MY REDNECK!
