His sole victory of the year came in the second Indianapolis road course race, after passing polesitter Pato O’Ward for the lead and fending off Romain Grosjean to claim the win.
Power previously had to endure watching a near-certain victory at the first race of the Detroit double-header slip from his grasp, as his car failed to start up following the late-race red flag period while he was in the lead.
The Australian says that qualifying proved to be the key weakness, having originally elected to focus on race pace in order to try and build a consistent basis for a title challenge.
“I definitely needed to improve qualifying,” Power told Autosport.
“We kind of got back on top of that toward the end of the year.
“Up to that point, I’d say we had put a bit less emphasis on qualifying because we could see that the real key to a championship, as tight as IndyCar is now, is to get a bunch of top threes and top fives on race days and obviously go for the win whenever possible.
“But…
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