Newgarden raced from 25th on the grid to finish second but Power was able to clinch the championship by 16 points with a third-place finish despite struggling on two of his sets of primaries with a wing change that didn’t work.
Power said on emerging from his Team Penske-Chevrolet’s cockpit: "In the off season my wife [Elizabeth] said to me, 'I believe you're going to beat Mario's record and you're going to win the championship.’ She said that to me and it actually gave me confidence I could do it. That's how much confidence I have in her gut feel.
