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Power: “I started screaming because I just knew I was going to win”

2018 Indianapolis 500 victor Will Power said he started screaming on the last lap of the race as he realized he was going to win, and described the experience of taking Indy victory at his 11th attempt as “overwhelming, amazing.” The Team Penske-Chevrolet driver’s first Indy 500 victory came after he saw off the challenge of Ed Carpenter’s ECR-Chevy following a restart for Sebastien Bourdais’s crash. Multiple late cautions then split the field on strategy and the off-sequence trio of Stefan Wilson, Jack Harvey and Oriol Servia led. But they had pushed the boundaries of their stints on fuel, meaning Wilson and Harvey were forced to stop before the finish. Power was ahead of Servia...
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