Arthur Rimbaud wrote: You’re not serious when you’re seventeen “. But to see Will Power take the plunge to celebrate his 41st victory in IndyCar, you say to yourself that at forty-one, you can still have a child’s soul. The Australian invited his team from Team Penske, as well as his family, to the James Scott fountain, like Sébastien Bourdais, winner the day before in IMSA. But unlike the Frenchman, the 2014 IndyCar champion pushed the festivities by riding a marble lion, like a carousel horse. A kid, we tell you!
Having become the sixth different winner in the first seven rounds of this season, Will Power has the luxury of taking control of the general classification from Marcus Ericsson (Chip Ganassi Racing), whose return to earth after his 500 Miles of Indianapolis was relatively well controlled (8th). Those who have followed Will Power since his thundering debut in Champ Car against the benchmark Sébastien Bourdais can attest to this: the native of Toowoomba has always been expressive. In 2011, he had his ears pulled for having thrown two middle fingers at the Race Direction, guilty according to him of having relaunched a race on an oval despite a wet track. The $30,000 fine had hardly calmed him down. When he wrote his name on the rich Indy 500 track record seven years later, a huge ” motherfucker “, dropped as soon as the Brickyard crossed, had been hastily censored by American television. Last year, a mechanical problem on his Dallara, when he won the race in Detroit, had knocked him out of his hinges. This time, the lieutenant of “Captain” Roger Penske was able to exult with joy
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