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WILL POWER

NO. 12 VERIZON
TEAM PENSKE DALLARA/CHEVROLET

BOMMARITO AUTOMOTIVE GROUP 500

GATEWAY MOTORSPORTS PARK

AUGUST 25, 2017

WINNING POLE NOTES

· Will Power won the Verizon P1 Award for Saturday's Bommarito Automotive Group 500 in Verizon IndyCar Series qualifying on Friday.
· This is Power's sixth pole win of the 2017 season also having won at St. Petersburg, Barber Motorsports Park, the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Iowa Speedway and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
· The pole is the 50th of his INDYCAR career (6 CC/44 IRL/IC), which ties him with teammate Helio Castroneves for third on the all-time poles list for the series. Both are three short of tying A.J. Foyt for second. Mario Andretti tops the chart with 67.
· Forty-four of his 50 career poles have come as a Team Penske driver.
· It is Power's first pole at Gateway as he makes his first start at the 1.25-mile oval.
· The six poles in a season equals his career high established in 2011.
· Power has notched multiple pole wins in eight of his 13 VICS seasons.
· This is the 10th pole for Team Penske in 2017 (Power – 6, Castroneves – 3 and Simon Pagenaud – 1)
· Team Penske has won 21 of 31 poles dating back to last year.
· The four Team Penske Chevrolets qualified 1-2-3-4 for the second time (Road America) this season and the fifth time since expanding to a four-car team in 2015. The three others were St. Petersburg in 2015 and 2016 and Sonoma in 2016.
· Teammate Josef Newgarden qualified the No. 2 PPG Chevrolet second and will start alongside Power on the front row which will be the sixth time this season that Team Penske entrants have occupied the top-two starting positions.
· The second row for Saturday's 248-lap race will be made up of Castroneves and Pagenaud.
· This is the 255th Verizon IndyCar Series pole win in the history of Team Penske and the 537th pole for the organization, overall.