Will Power Comes Full-Circle With Second Win At The 38th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
Trophy, Star-Shaped Confetti, Girls, & All! - Will Power of Verizon Team Penske, Simon Pagenaud from HP Schmidt-Hamilton Motorsports, and James Hinchcliffe of Go Daddy Andretti Autosport (joined by First Place team President and manager, Tim Cindric/Team Penske - on far right) celebrate their First, Second, and Third place trophies on the podium in Victory Circle at the 38th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (2012)
Will Power Comes Full-Circle With Second Win At The 38th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
Will Power puts together a masterful drive to win from a penalty starting grid position of P12 (due to the changing of engines in all Chevy-powered DW12 race cars) despite winning the pole (P1) position on the grid in the 35th, 36th, and 37th chapters of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. This victory was Will's second and represents the only victories by a ChampCar Series driver since the merger of the two American open-wheel racing sanctioning bodies of the Indianapolis Racing League (IRL) and the ChampCar World Series (CCWS).
The first win posted at this track by Will Power came soon after the announcement that a merger between the IRL and the CCWS was agreed to in 2008, however, since the two series utilized cars from different manufacturers based upon different technical configurations, the 34th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was performed under CCWS sanctioning with CCWS teams and drivers. At the time, Will Power drove for the KV Racing Technology/Craig Gore Aussie Vineyards/Smart & Final-Team Australia in a Panoz DP01 turbo-charged car. After 452 CART/CCWS races, the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the last sanctioned race for the series and the Panoz DP01.
Will Power of Verizon Team Penske performs his signature jump for joy from a top his #12 Verizon Penske Racing DW12 Dallara IZOD IndyCar. This is Will Power's second win at the famed temporary street course next to the harbor marina at Long Beach. Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (2012)
This 38th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach win by Power was in the new formula DW12 chassis car powered by a 2.2 liter, 4 cylinder, turbo-charged Chevrolet engine as it is in its inaugural season ... so one might conclude that with Will Power's win in the new DW12 turbo-charged powered car, American open-wheel racing at Long Beach has come full-circle with Will Power's help.
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