Will Power

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Will Power

Champ Car World Series Record
Nationality	Australian
Car #	5
Current team	Team Australia
Race starts	16
Series Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	1
Pole positions	1
First Champ Car race	2005 Lexmark Indy 300
First win	—
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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]

[edit] Complete Champ Car results

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Yr	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2005	Team Australia	LBH DNP	MTY DNP	MIL DNP	POR DNP	CLE DNP	TOR DNP	EDM DNP	SAN DNP	DEN DNP	MTL DNP	LAS DNP	SUR Ret	MEX 10		22nd	17
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	6th	213

[edit] References

^ The Series - The Cars Australian Formula 4000 Championship
^ 2005 Formula Renault 3.5 World Series Complete Qualifying and Race Results SpeedSport Magazine
^ 2006 Roshfrans Rookie Of The Year Standings Champ Car World Series
^ 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.

[edit] External links

Team Australia Official Site

Preceded by Timo Glock	Champ Car Rookie of the Year 2006	Succeeded by Incumbent

2007 Champ Car World Series
Newman/Haas	Forsythe	Minardi	Australia	PKV	RSPORTS	Coyne	Conquest	PCM
1 Bourdais 2 Rahal	3 Tracy 7 Dominguez	4 Clarke 14 Doornbos	5 Power 15 Pagenaud	6 Gommendy 21 Jani	8 Tagliani 9 Wilson	11 TBA 19 TBA	27 TBA	28 Dalziel 29 Figge
Las Vegas - Long Beach - Houston - Portland - Cleveland - Mont-Tremblant - Toronto - Edmonton - San Jose - Road America - Assen - Zolder - Surfers Paradise - Zhuhai - Mexico City - Phoenix