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Will you sign power with the Penske team again? Where things are in negotiations

Will you sign power with the Penske team again? Where things are in negotiations

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  • Days of turning 44, Will Power enters a year of contract with the PENSKE team recently out of a campaign of three victories 2024.
  • The president of the Penske team, Tim Cindric, says that the team “has no reason why we would like anyone but we do it in the car”, but also admits that the team has to think in its long -term future.
  • Power won a title for the last time in 2022 and was in the race for a third in 2024 until the problems inside and outside his control affected him by the last two rounds.

As Will Power enters another year of high profile contract For the Penske’s team Indycar program, TEL CINRIC TEAM PRESIDENT He says that the series champion twice should not be under additional pressure of the team to register strong results of the early season to hold on to his Chevy No. 12 seat beyond 2025.

Revealed power in the midst of pre -season content of Indycar that He had hired representation to negotiate his next Indycar contractas well as other opportunities for potential races, in his name for the first time in his career. Power agency, A14 ManagementHe was launched and co -founded by the two -time champion of Formula 1, Fernando Alonso, with the former Indycar pilot (and a former teammate) Oriol Servia who serves the customers of A14 based in the United States.

During his 17 -year mandate with the Penske team, Power said he has always negotiated his own agreements, but This low season he decided that he did not want issues outside the track to become a possible distractionWhile the pole leader of all Indycar’s time prepares to turn 44 and demonstrate that he is still in his peak and worthy of another agreement with the most winning team of the sport.

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In fact, Power said, winning as many races and unemployed in as many podiums as any pilot in sport in 2024, He believes he has five other competitive seasons in himself..

“It’s fun. You get to this point in your career, and I feel that you are at your best, where you can put a full season and a race weekend together. ” Power said last month. “But this is not my choice, obviously, because I do not own the team. It always becomes complicated, and there are other things that play in that, but at the end of the day, if you keep winning races, and you are very strong, that is the best defense you have against any of those things.

“Honestly, the way I acted last year, if I do the same this year … win three races in a year in Indycar is now very difficult, even the champion only won two (in 2024). Then, if he is doing That should probably drive in that series.

A pilot who in his early years often won one, two or even three races at the end of May, Power has not won in the first third of the season since 2018, when he swept the couple of racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, including his First and only victory of Indianapolis 500. But in its two most recent seasons that contain titles, in 2022 when he won his second, and a year ago when he entered the end in 2North Dakota-Place: The power often shot at the doors and has caught two or three early podiums (including three finalists in its first four openings of 2024).

In a team with a Well -known history of concluding driving contracts for MayCindric was asked if the power should be under additional pressure to produce strong and consistent results at the beginning of this season, as if his future with the team could depend on those first races since he is at the decline of his career. Cindric said he hopes that both parties can treat the opening of this season, despite the conversations that can be carried out behind closed doors, as usual.

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“There is no reason for us to want anyone but whatever in the car,” Cindric told Indisar. “(Will) approaching the twilight of his career, and if you had asked me in 2021, he would have said that he was approaching at the end of his career, and then he goes and wins the championship (in 2022). I feel he has the potential to do it again.

“For us, we will spend May, and then we will start focusing on how it will be next year. The fact is that Will is close to the twilight of his career, and becomes a greater emphasis on ‘What time are you going?’ or ‘How do you approach it?’ But I think we will do business as usual until that moment. “

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Although the power fourth in the final classification of the championship, hindered by its safety belts, it fell apart in the middle of the race during the end, along with a heartbreaking turn in the penultimate race of the season, and Finishing behind the Penske Scott McLaughlin team team, Cindric said another season similar to 2024 would give Penske officials any reason to consider Go ahead, despite the fact that power is the second oldest full -time driver of the series and Indycar full of a promising talent plethora.

“Will knows exactly where he feels and where he is, and we want nothing more than to advance, but obviously we have to look at the general panorama and see how everything develops,” said Cindric. “He showed last year that he is not slowing down. He has been with us for a long time, and we have had a great relationship over the years, so I really do not see that it is different from any other year, apart from the obvious. “

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