Information about Will Power
| Will Power | |
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| Nationality | ){kind=small} Australian |
| Car # | 5 |
| Current team | Team Australia |
| Race starts | 23 |
| Series Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 2 |
| Podium finishes | 5 |
| Pole positions | 3 |
| First Champ Car race | 2005 Lexmark Indy 300 |
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Will Power (born March 1, 1981) is a motorsport driver from Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia.
He won the 2002 Australian Formula Holden (Formula 4000) championship by winning 7 times and achieving 3 pole positions.[1]
He tested a Minardi Formula One car in 2004 with fellow Australian Will Davison in Italy.
During 2005 he competed in the World Series by Renault for the Carlin Motorsport team, where he proved very competitive. During the course of the WSR championship he scored 2 race victories, with 4 trips to the podium in total and qualified his car on the front row 5 times. In addition to driving in the WSR, Power was also one of the featured drivers for the Australian team in the 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix series. Power raced in the series opener at Brands Hatch and piloted Australia to a second place finish behind Team Brazil.
In late 2005 he joined Champ Car Team Australia at the Lexmark Indy 300 event at Surfers Paradise in Australia, which also resulted in his departure from the World Series by Renault championship even though that season was still in progress and Power ultimately ended seventh in the championship.[2] In the Indy 300 Power ran strongly until being knocked off the track by team mate Alex Tagliani. After the Surfers Paradise event he signed a multi year contract to race for the team, which began immediately at the next Champ Car round in Mexico City after Tagliani's teammate Marcus Marshall was released for what was described as a "serious breach of contract".
Power drove full time for Team Australia in 2006. He performed well throughout the season with nine top ten finshes and strong qualifying results. At Mexico, the final round of the season, Power took his first podium finish in Champ Car. He won the "rookie of the year" award[3] and finished in 6th place in the championship standings.
In his home race in 2006, at Surfers Paradise in Australia, he scored his first pole position of his career in Champ Cars, in front of his home crowd. However, contact from Paul Tracy in pit lane and then an ambitious overtaking move by Sébastien Bourdais resulted in a bent left steering arm, and he fell to the back, one lap down by the time the car was repaired, eventually finishing 12th.[4]
On 8 April 2007, Power won his first Champ Car race at the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix, held in the streets of Las Vegas. He qualified on pole position and led most laps, becoming the first Australian driver to win in the series. [5]
Complete Driving Results
Junior Series
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Open Wheel Racing
(Races in bold indicate pole position)| Series | Yr | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Team | Rank | Points |
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| A1GP | 2005/06 | AUS | BRH1 4 | LAU1 | EST1 | ECR1 | SEP1 | ){kind=small} DUB1 | ){kind=small} DUR1 | ){kind=small} SEN1 | MON1 | LAG1 | ){kind=small} SHA1 | AUS | 13th | 51 | |||
| BRH2 2 | LAU2 | EST2 | ECR2 | SEP2 | DUB2 | DUR2 | SEN2 | MON2 | LAG2 | SHA2 | |||||||||
| Champ Car | 2005 | Team Australia | LBH | MTY | MIL | POR | CLE | TOR | EDM | SAN | DEN | MTL | LAS | SUR Ret | MEX 10 | Team Australia | 22nd | 17 | |
| Champ Car | 2006 | Team Australia | LBH 9 | HST 7 | MTY 11 | MIL Ret | POR 18 | CLE 9 | TOR 7 | EDM 6 | SAN 6 | DEN 4 | MTL 5 | ROA 13 | SUR 12 | MEX 3 | Team Australia | 6th | 213 |
| Champ Car | 2007 | Team Australia | LVG 1 | LGB 3 | HST 11 | POR 4 | CLE 10 | MTT 3 | TOR 1 | EDM Ret | SAN 4 | ROA Ret | ZOL 4 | ASS 14 | SUR | MEX | Team Australia | 4th* | 228* |
* Season still in progress
Overall Stats
| Series | Seasons | Races | Poles | Wins | Podiums (Non-win) |
Point Finishes (Non-podium) |
Teams | Total Points | Championships | Best Finish (Championship) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formula Ford | 2 | 28 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 304 | 0 | 2nd (2001) |
| Formula Holden | 1 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 197 | 1 | 1st (2002) |
| Australian F3 | 1 | 12 | unk | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 204 | 0 | 2nd (2002) |
| V8Supercar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 82 | 0 | 45th (2002) |
| British F3 | 2 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 151 | 0 | 9th (2004) |
| WSBR | 1 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 64 | 0 | 7th (2005) |
| A1GP | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 13th (2005/06) |
| CCWS | 3 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 392 | 0 | 6th (2006) |
Complete to July 10, 2007.
References
1. ^ The Series - The Cars Australian Formula 4000 Championship
2. ^ 2005 Formula Renault 3.5 World Series Complete Qualifying and Race Results SpeedSport Magazine
3. ^ 2006 Roshfrans Rookie Of The Year Standings Champ Car World Series
4. ^ Champ Car World Series (October 22, 2006). CHAMP CAR WORLD SERIES PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT WITH 2006 SERIES CHAMPION SEBASTIEN BOURDAIS. Press release. Retrieved on 2006-10-22.
5. ^ Champ Car World Series (April 8, 2007). WILL POWER BECOMES FIRST AUSTRALIAN DRIVER TO WIN CHAMP CAR WORLD SERIES EVENT WITH VICTORY IN VEGAS GRAND PRIX. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-04-08.
2. ^ 2005 Formula Renault 3.5 World Series Complete Qualifying and Race Results SpeedSport Magazine
3. ^ 2006 Roshfrans Rookie Of The Year Standings Champ Car World Series
4. ^ Champ Car World Series (October 22, 2006). CHAMP CAR WORLD SERIES PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT WITH 2006 SERIES CHAMPION SEBASTIEN BOURDAIS. Press release. Retrieved on 2006-10-22.
5. ^ Champ Car World Series (April 8, 2007). WILL POWER BECOMES FIRST AUSTRALIAN DRIVER TO WIN CHAMP CAR WORLD SERIES EVENT WITH VICTORY IN VEGAS GRAND PRIX. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-04-08.
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| Sporting positions | ||
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| Preceded by Timo Glock | Champ Car Rookie of the Year 2006 | Succeeded by Incumbent |
| Preceded by Rick Kelly | Winner of the Australian Drivers' Championship 2002 | Succeeded by Daniel Gaunt |
| 2007 Champ Car season | |||||||||
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| NHL | Forsythe | Minardi | Australia | RSPORTS | Coyne | PKV | PCM | Conquest | |
| 1 Bourdais 2 Rahal | 3 Tracy 7 Servia | 4 Clarke 14 Doornbos | 5 Power 15 Pagenaud | 8 Tagliani 9 Wilson | 11 Legge 19 Junqueira | 21 Jani 22 Gommendy | 28 Dalziel 29 Figge | 34 Heylen | |
| Las Vegas - Long Beach - Houston - Portland - Cleveland - Mont-Tremblant - Toronto - Edmonton - San Jose - Road America - Zolder - Assen - Surfers Paradise - Mexico City | |||||||||
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