With Will Power on pole, Josef Newgarden starting sixth, and Simon Pagenaud primed for his familiar charge forward from 13th, the first World Wide Technology Raceway round help much promise for Team Penske as the field prepared to take the green flag. Two hundred laps later, Power climbed out of his No. 12 Chevy with a 17th-place finish wondering how he led convincingly until Arrow McLaren SP’s Pato O’Ward produced hellacious in and out laps to steal the lead following the first round of pit stops, and how he picked up a puncture that sent his day spiraling out of control. Two laps down at the checkered flag, Power led 61 laps in the opening stanza, but had nothing to show for it.
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