Will Power, seen here from 2011, scored his second straight win Sunday in the Grand Prix of Alabama Izod IndyCar event at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, AL. Photo by LAT Photo USA/Courtesy IndyCar
Will Power held off Scott Dixon on a restart with 16 laps left to win the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, AL, for the second year in a row.
It’s Power’s 16th career Indy car victory and his first victory of 2012. He has never finished outside of the top-four in three starts at the track.
“Yeah that was an awesome race,” said Power. “Tim Cindric kept putting me in such a good position so we could use our speed. That last restart was kind of hairy. I knew Scott (Dixon) was going to be really quick and hounded me for a couple laps there. It’s good to get the Verizon 12 car in victory lane with a Chevy engine. It was awesome.
“(My crew was) on the money today. Without these guys, there’s no way we could have won today.”
Dixon, who was 3.3709 seconds behind in the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car, has the distinction of being the race runner-up all three years (twice to Power and in the inaugural race to Helio Castroneves). He broke a tie with teammate Dario Franchitti with 27 second-place finishes on the all-time list and is one behind Castroneves.
“I think today we did a good job,” Dixon said. “We got caught up there in some traffic in the pit, the pit sequence kind of got us there. All in all, Team Target did a fantastic job with Honda, I think we’re starting to get on something with this car, so hopefully in the next few races we might be looking at the top spot on the podium.
“It was a tough race, and huge congratulations to Team Penske and obviously Will (Power), coming from so deep in the field to come back and get on top, it shows they have a strong team.”
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Castroneves, the pole sitter, finished third to maintain the points lead in the young season and continue his resurgence after a disappointing 2011 season.
“To be honest it was very difficult,” Castroneves said. “Those are my tires from qualifying. Unfortunately, I locked a little bit too much, I used them a little bit too much. I mean it paid off starting from the pole position, but certainly hurt me a little bit, actually a lot, in the race. That’s why (Scott Dixon) was able to go off of turn 2, good run but I was just staying in the middle and not do too much.”
Castronves held off Graham Rahal in the No. 38 Service Chip Ganassi Racing car by 0.2245 of a second.
“The Service Central Chip Ganassi Team did a fantastic job,” said Rahal. “We made no mistakes and that’s what it’s all about and at the end of the day we had a really solid finish. We move on from here on to Long Beach with a lot of confidence. We know we can run with these guys and we’re going to try to do it again.”
Simon Pagenaud finished fifth and James Hinchcliffe was sixth after starting on the front row for the first time in his IZOD IndyCar Series career. Mike Conway, who provided A.J. Foyt Racing its best non-oval starting position (fourth) since 2007, finished seventh.
The next IZOD IndyCar Series race is the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 15 at the Streets of Long Beach.
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