Will Power, Team Penske
The cast: Race engineer – David Faustino. Race strategist – Tim Cindric. Chief mechanic – Matt Jonsson.
Twitter: @12WillPower, @Team_Penske
The car: No. 1 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet
The driver: Turned 34 on March 1. … From Toowoomba, Australia, and resides in Mooresville, N.C. … His biography, “The Sheer Force of Will Power,” has been published by Harper Collins and currently is available as an eBook.
Video: Will Power reviews his season
Season finish: Placed third in Verizon IndyCar Series standings after winning the championship in 2014. He has finished no lower than fourth in the past six seasons. … Completed seventh successive season with Team Penske.
Season stats: Power scored a field-high six pole starts (five on road/street courses and the Texas Motor Speedway oval for second year in a row), and qualified for the Firestone Fast Six segment of qualifications on road/street courses seven of the eight events that the pole was contested (starting lineup set by entrant points because of rain at New Orleans and Belle Isle-2). … Power won the Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis from the pole, and added podiums in Indianapolis 500 and St. Petersburg. He had 10 top-10 finishes overall. … He tied for most races led with 11 for total of 298 laps, and was running at the finish in 13 of the 16 races (contact at Belle Isle-2, 18th-place finish, contact in back-to-back races at Auto Club Speedway, 19th place, and Milwaukee, 22nd place).
Year over year: 2015 best qualifying of first six times (4.1 average), best finish of first at Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course (9.4 average). 2014 best qualifying of first four times (8.4 average), best finish of first at St. Petersburg, Belle Isle-1 and Milwaukee (6.4 average) in 18 races.
The gist: Power will switch back to the No. 12 car for the 2016 season (No. 1 is reserved for the series champion to use the following season at the entrant’s discretion). … He has competed in 155 Indy car races (first start in 2005 at Surfers Paradise). … Twenty-five career wins is tied with Gordon Johncock for 15th all time. … Moved to fifth on the career list with 42 poles. … He is named after his great-grandfather William Steven Power, who raced motorcycles in Australia.