IndyCar Rainguard Water Sealers 600 results: Will Power wins

Will Power snagged another IndyCar victory in the Rainguard Water Sealers 600 after multiple crashes wrecked more than half of the field at Texas.

Will Power won the Rainguard Water Sealers 600 at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night, but maybe he should be called the best survivor of another very close IndyCar race that had more than enough carnage.

Close quarters led to a number of incidents. On Lap 36, Alexander Rossi found himself with nowhere to go between two cars and wound up in the wall. In the resulting run of pit stops, James Hinchcliffe lost control on pit exit and crashed into Helio Castroneves, who in turn collected Takuma Sato.

Hinchcliffe was assessed a drive-through penalty for avoidable contact, while Charlie Kimball was unable to make the most of his first career pole when an oil leak caused him to retire early. Josef Newgarden and JR Hildebrand were also hit by pit road speeding violations, with the latter having to serve his penalty from the lead. And all of that happened in the same sequence!

Castroneves had a single-car incident on Lap 91, while a major wreck on Lap 151 triggered by Hinchcliffe running out of room while racing Tony Kanaan and Mikhail Aleshin knocked out Hinchcliffe, Aleshin, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Carlos Munoz, JR Hildebrand, Ed Carpenter, Ed Jones, and Tristan Vautier, who had been running up front most of the race.

Team owner Dale Coyne was seen on TV confronting Kanaan on pit lane after the race was red-flagged, leaving just 11 of 22 cars in the running. Carpenter and Hinchcliffe also publicly blamed Kanaan for the incident, with the latter telling the TV crew, “He doesn’t normally race like that. I don’t know what happened.” Kanaan was assessed a 20-second stop and hold penalty by race control that put him multiple laps down.

On-the-spot rule adjustments further made things interesting. Under the red flag IndyCar and Firestone decided to order a mandatory competition caution for every 30 laps of green flag racing. Josef Newgarden was caught out by that, with his team electing to pit just before the first competition caution, which meant he had to stop twice. It wound up not mattering as Newgarden crashed on Lap 201.

Then, with five laps to go, Takuma Sato lost control of his car in the front, which also took out Scott Dixon, who was battling with Will Power for the race lead. Power was awarded the victory under the yellow flag over Kanaan and Simon Pagenaud, while Dixon and Sato finished ninth and tenth respectively.

Below are the complete Rainguard Water Sealers 600 results:

1 – Will Power
2 – Tony Kanaan
3 – Simon Pagenaud
4 – Graham Rahal
5 – Gabby Chaves
6 – Marco Andretti
7 – Conor Daly
8 – Max Chilton
9 – Scott Dixon
10 – Takuma Sato
11 – Ed Carpenter
12 – JR Hildebrand
13 – Josef Newgarden
14 – Mikhail Aleshin
15 – James Hinchcliffe
16 – Tristan Vautier
17 – Ed Jones
18 – Carlos Munoz
19 – Ryan Hunter-Reay
20 – Helio Castroneves
21 – Charlie Kimball
22 – Alexander Rossi

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