{"id":66,"date":"2014-03-30T18:24:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T22:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/?p=66"},"modified":"2022-07-18T20:51:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T00:51:45","slug":"will-power-wins-indycar-season-opener-full-results-from-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/2014\/03\/30\/will-power-wins-indycar-season-opener-full-results-from-st-petersburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Power wins IndyCar season opener, Full Results from St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2014\/03\/willpower.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2014\/03\/willpower.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2014\/03\/willpower-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Will Power opened the IndyCar season with a win at St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Penske Racing car placed his car in victory lane but left others upset following a slow restart on lap 82 of the race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(IndyCar) threw the green early,&#8221; Power said. &#8220;I thought we were meant to go in that (restart) zone. I was surprised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I lifted a little; I did not touch the brake at all. They can look at my data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The win is the 22nd of Power&#8217;s career. He won the last two races of 2013. He also earned the bonus points for leading the most laps.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Pablo Montoya finished 15th\u00a0in his return to IndyCar. Last years champion Scott Dixon opened the season with a fourth place finish.<\/p>\n<h2>Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Results<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Will Power<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Hunter-Reay<\/li>\n<li>Helio Castroneves<\/li>\n<li>Scott Dixon<\/li>\n<li>Simon Pagenaud<\/li>\n<li>Tony Kanaan<\/li>\n<li>Takuma Sato<\/li>\n<li>Justin Wilson<\/li>\n<li>Josef Newgarden<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Briscoe<\/li>\n<li>Sebastian Saavedra<\/li>\n<li>Mikhali Alehin<\/li>\n<li>Sebastien Bourdais<\/li>\n<li>Graham Rahal<\/li>\n<li>Juan Pablo Montoya<\/li>\n<li>Mike Conway<\/li>\n<li>Carlos Munoz<\/li>\n<li>Carlos Huertas<\/li>\n<li>James Hunchcliffe<\/li>\n<li>Charlie Kimball<\/li>\n<li>Jake Hawksworth<\/li>\n<li>Marco Andretti<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Power opened the IndyCar season with a win at St. Petersburg. The driver of the Penske Racing car placed his car in victory lane but left others upset following a slow restart on lap 82 of the race. &#8220;(IndyCar) threw the green early,&#8221; Power said. &#8220;I thought we were meant to go in that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,12],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-66","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indycar","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-will-power"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}