Power set fastest lap in Friday’s sole practice for the double-header Hy-Vee IndyCar Race Weekend at Iowa’s 0.894-mile D-shaped oval, and this followed an encouraging test there for Team Penske-Chevrolet. But he denied that the team were in a different league from their opposition.
“I saw cars at the test I thought were pretty strong as well,” he said. “McLaren looked good. When teams have our setup... We know McLaren has got it, because an engineer [Gavin Ward, Josef Newgarden’s former race engineer] went there. Andretti has it because [Simon] Pagenaud brought it over [to Meyer Shank Racing with whom Andretti Autosport has a technical alliance].”
