Full results from the Bommarito 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park, round 15 of the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series. 2018 IndyCar Bommarito 500 - Race Results 1. (4) Will Power, Chevrolet, 248, Running 2. (2) Alexander Rossi, Honda, 248, Running 3. (1) Scott Dixon, Honda, 248, Running 4. (6) Simon Pagenaud, Chevrolet, 248, Running 5. (16) Zach Veach, Honda, 248, Running 6. (14) Spencer Pigot, Chevrolet, 248, Running 7. (3) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 248, Running 8. (12) Ed Jones, Honda, 248, Running 9. (13) Takuma Sato, Honda, 247, Running 10. (7) Graham Rahal, Honda, 247, Running 11. (21) Pietro Fittipaldi, Honda, 247, Running 12. (11) Ed Carpenter, Chevrolet, 247, Running 13. (15) Tony Kanaan, Chevrolet, 246, Running 14. (10) Marco Andretti, Honda, 246, Running 15. (8) James Hinchcliffe, Honda, 246, Running 16. (18) Matheus Leist, Chevrolet, 246, Running 17. (20) Max Chilton, Chevrolet, 244, Running 18. (19) Gabby Chaves, Chevrolet, 242, Running 19. (17) Charlie Kimball, Chevrolet, 235, Running 20. (5) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Honda, 172, Mechanical 21. (9) Sebastien Bourdais, Honda, 0, Contact Race Statistics Winner's average speed: 155.644 mph Time of Race: 1:59:30.1972 Margin of victory: 1.3117 seconds Cautions: 2 for 16 laps Lead changes: 10 among 5 drivers Lap Leaders Dixon, Scott 1 - 59 Power, Will 60 - 62 Sato, Takuma 63 - 64 Dixon, Scott 65 - 119 Rossi, Alexander 120 - 123 Sato, Takuma 124 - 125 Dixon, Scott 126 - 149 Power, Will 150 - 230 Dixon, Scott 231 - 237 Veach, Zach 238 - 239 Power, Will 240 - 248 Verizon IndyCar Series point standings: Dixon 568, Rossi 542, Power 500, Newgarden 490, Hunter-Reay 421, Pagenaud 400, Wickens 391, Rahal 371, Hinchcliffe 353, Bourdais 334.<doc-sep>MADISON, IL - AUGUST 26: Marco Andretti, driver of the #27 Andretti Autosport Honda, dives into turn three during the IndyCar Bommarito Automotive Group 500 on August 26, 2017, at Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Illinois. (Photo by Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) It sure seems like VAR would have been helpful on that Willy Boly handball goal It sure seems like VAR would have been helpful on that Willy Boly handball goal by Josh Hill The Verizon IndyCar Series races Saturday night in the Bommarito Automotive Group 500. Here’s what to watch for in IndyCar from Gateway. It’s time for another Verizon IndyCar Series night race, as the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 takes place at Gateway Motorsports Park in St. Louis. But what should fans expect from Saturday given everything that’s surrounding IndyCar at the moment? This is going to be a tough week for race teams and fans alike, given that everyone is thinking about Robert Wickens following his terrible crash at Pocono. According to IndyCar, Wickens had spinal surgery on Monday, which was successful. But it’s still not entirely clear what his future holds, and that’s going to weigh on everybody’s minds watching this race. On the track, the 2018 IndyCar season has now tightened up, as a second consecutive win from Alexander Rossi put him on the heels of current leader Scott Dixon. So every point counts, plus this is a night race, plus it’s only the second event since Gateway returned to the IndyCar schedule. It’s a lot to take in. What should race fans look for this weekend? Let’s break the race down in our Bommarito Automotive Group 500 preview: THREE THINGS TO WATCH: Track condition: With what happened last week at Pocono, it wouldn’t be a surprise if everyone is just a little more aware of their surroundings at Gateway — particularly the catch fences, which have been a hot topic in the last few days. It’d be completely understandable if the teams and drivers were slightly more cautious Saturday as they tackle another high-speed oval. With what happened last week at Pocono, it wouldn’t be a surprise if everyone is just a little more aware of their surroundings at Gateway — particularly the catch fences, which have been a hot topic in the last few days. It’d be completely understandable if the teams and drivers were slightly more cautious Saturday as they tackle another high-speed oval. Penske perfect: Last year, Team Penske swept every category in this race, as Will Power was on the pole and Josef Newgarden controlled the event proper. Power, Newgarden and Simon Pagenaud could all use another (or in the case of Pagenaud, his first) win right now. Can they have the same success in 2018? Last year, Team Penske swept every category in this race, as Will Power was on the pole and Josef Newgarden controlled the event proper. Power, Newgarden and Simon Pagenaud could all use another (or in the case of Pagenaud, his first) win right now. Can they have the same success in 2018? Shortened schedule: Because this is a Saturday race, there are only two days of on-track action at the Bommarito Automotive Group 500. Will the loss of that extra practice time have any effect, especially in the championship hunt, where everyone is looking at every little detail on each car? THREE DRIVERS TO WATCH: Scott Dixon: Dixon is the current IndyCar championship leader, and he has an edge as the only active driver to have raced at Gateway Motorsports Park more than once. This would be a good opportunity for him to recoup some points. Though Dixon has done an unbelievable job of damage control, his title challengers can’t keep qualifying ahead of him if he wants to hold onto that fifth title. Dixon is the current IndyCar championship leader, and he has an edge as the only active driver to have raced at Gateway Motorsports Park more than once. This would be a good opportunity for him to recoup some points. Though Dixon has done an unbelievable job of damage control, his title challengers can’t keep qualifying ahead of him if he wants to hold onto that fifth title. Josef Newgarden: The defending Verizon IndyCar Series champion won the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 last year in convincing fashion; he not only led the most laps but had the fastest lap of the race. And he could use a podium finish to catch up to Dixon and Rossi in the overall points chase; Newgarden hasn’t seen the podium since winning at Road America. The defending Verizon IndyCar Series champion won the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 last year in convincing fashion; he not only led the most laps but had the fastest lap of the race. And he could use a podium finish to catch up to Dixon and Rossi in the overall points chase; Newgarden hasn’t seen the podium since winning at Road America. Gabby Chaves: With Conor Daly running the Xfinity Series race at Road America this weekend, Gabby Chaves finally gets back into the car he was expected to be driving for Harding Racing. There are plenty of IndyCar fans who’d like to see Chaves snag a good result and hold onto the seat that was supposed to be his all season. Like Daly, Chaves drives his heart out and just hasn’t caught a break. A good finish here would go a long way toward getting him the respect he deserves. The 2018 Bommarito Automotive Group 500 happens Saturday, Aug. 25 at 8:00 p.m. ET. For complete coverage of the 2018 IndyCar season, follow the Motor Sports category at FanSided.<doc-sep>MADISON, IL - AUGUST 26: Josef Newgarden, driver of the #2 Team Penske Chevrolet, drives through turn two during the IndyCar Bommarito Automotive Group 500 on August 26, 2017, at Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Illinois. (Photo by Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) The 2018 IndyCar season is at Gateway Motorsports Park for the Bommarito Automotive Group 500. Here’s how to watch IndyCar live, on TV and online. Three races remain in the Verizon IndyCar Series season, and the 2018 Bommarito Automotive Group 500 is the last night race of the year. We’re telling you how to watch IndyCar online and watch IndyCar live this weekend, so you don’t miss the race that takes place on Saturday night. Gateway Motorsports Park in St. Louis is the backdrop for this race, with championship contenders once again at the top of the pecking order. Defending IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden won this race in 2017, and a repeat victory would mean everything to him as he tries to hold onto the top spot. The pole-sitter was his teammate Will Power, who narrowly missed out on a third consecutive victory at Pocono; will he rebound at Gateway? But outside of Team Penske, the story is Alexander Rossi, whose back to back first place finishes have catapulted him even closer to his first IndyCar title. Can he capture the 2018 IndyCar season and add it to his 2016 Indianapolis 500 victory? Will Scott Dixon bring Rossi’s title hopes to a halt with another strong finish under the lights? Everything is up in the air, so this is an IndyCar race to make sure you don’t miss. Yet with it being on a different day and at a different time than most of the 2018 IndyCar season, it’s possible you could overlook it — unless you know when and where to tune in, that is. How do you watch IndyCar online and/or live? Here’s how you can watch the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 live, on TV or via live stream: Date: Saturday, Aug. 25 Start Time: 8:00 p.m. ET Race: 2018 Bommarito Automotive Group 500 TV Channel: NBCSN Live Stream: Stream 1 | Stream 2 For complete coverage of the 2018 IndyCar season, follow the Motor Sports category at FanSided.<doc-sep>Due to inclement weather, the starting grid for the 15th race of the 2018 IndyCar season, the Bommarito Automotive Group 500, at Gateway Motorsports Park has been set by entrant points. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon is set to start from the pole position for the Bommarito Automotive Group 500, which is the 15th race of the 17-race 2018 IndyCar season, at Gateway Motorsports Park. This qualifying session was initially scheduled to begin at 5:15 p.m. ET. Because of rain, it was rescheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. ET, but it was ultimately canceled because of more rain. IndyCar announced the news on Twitter. Due to today's 🌧️🌧️, tomorrow's starting grid will be determined by entrant points. Final practice has been extended (7:30-9 CT). We'll see you under the lights!#INDYCAR // #Bommarito500 // @GatewayMSP pic.twitter.com/JrV1wZH9GR — NTT INDYCAR SERIES (@IndyCar) August 24, 2018 As a result, the starting grid for tomorrow night’s race has been set by entrant points, meaning Dixon, who leads the championship standings, is set to lead the field to the green flag to start the 248-lap race around the four-turn, 1.25-mile (2.012-kilometer) Gateway Motorsports Park oval in Madison, Illinois. Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi is set to start alongside Dixon on the front row in second place in his #27 Honda. Team Penske teammates Josef Newgarden and Will Power are set to be the highest starting Chevrolet drivers of the race in third and fourth in their #1 Chevrolet and #12 Chevrolet, respectively. Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay is set to round out the top five on the grid on the inside of the third row in fifth place in his #28 Honda. Team Penske’s Simon Pagenaud, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Graham Rahal, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ James Hinchcliffe, Dale Coyne Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais and Andretti Herta Autosport’s Marco Andretti are set to round out the top 10 in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th in their #22 Chevrolet, #15 Honda, #5 Honda, #18 Honda and #98 Honda, respectively. The top 11 drivers in the championship standings, excluding injured Schmidt Peterson Motorsports rookie Robert Wickens, who sits in sixth place in the standings, are all set to line up in the order of their respective positions in the standings. However, the driver starting in 11th is set to do so despite the fact that he sits in 20th in the standings. This driver, Ed Carpenter Racing’s Ed Carpenter, is driving the #20 Chevrolet, which he drives in the oval races only. In doing so, he has racked up 169 points so far this season. Jordan King, the driver of the #20 Chevrolet in the road and street course races, has racked up 126 points so far this season, giving the #20 Chevrolet a total of 295 entry points, which is good enough for 12th place in the championship standings. With Wickens out, Carpenter is set to start the race in 11th. The entry points of the #88 Harding Racing Chevrolet, which is set to be driven by Gabby Chaves in this Saturday night’s race, and the #19 Dale Coyne Racing Honda, which is set to be driven by rookie Pietro Fittipaldi, have also been split up among multiple drivers through the first 14 races of the season. Chaves and Fittipaldi, who currently sit in 21st and 33rd place in the championship standings, are set to start the race in 19th and 21st, respectively. While it was initially scheduled to begin at 9:00 p.m. ET this evening, the final practice session for the race has been extended by 30 minutes and is now scheduled to start this evening at 8:30 p.m. ET. It is set to be broadcast live on IndyCar RaceControl, the IndyCar mobile app, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. NBC Sports Network is set to broadcast the race live beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET tomorrow evening. The race is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. ET. Here is the full starting grid for the 2018 Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park. Starting Grid 1st – Scott Dixon 2nd – Alexander Rossi 3rd – Josef Newgarden 4th – Will Power 5th – Ryan Hunter-Reay 6th – Simon Pagenaud 7th – Graham Rahal 8th – James Hinchcliffe 9th – Sebastien Bourdais 10th – Marco Andretti 11th – Ed Carpenter 12th – Ed Jones 13th – Takuma Sato 14th – Spencer Pigot 15th – Tony Kanaan 16th – Zach Veach 17th – Charlie Kimball 18th – Matheus Leist 19th – Gabby Chaves 20th – Max Chilton 21st – Pietro Fittipaldi Apply to Beyond the Flag. Start your application process by filling out the fields below Be sure to tune into the live broadcast of the final practice session for the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 this evening, and be sure to tune in to the live broadcast of the race itself tomorrow evening.<doc-sep>
Will Power earned his third victory of the 2018 IndyCar season by winning the season’s 15th race, the Bommarito Automotive Group 500, at Gateway Motorsports Park. Team Penske’s Will Power hadn’t won an IndyCar race since he won the fifth and sixth races of the 17-race 2018 season at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, including the race on the track’s road course and the 102nd running of the Indianapolis 500 on the track’s oval. Nearly three months later, Power changed that by winning the season’s 15th race, the Bommarito Automotive Group 500, at Gateway Motorsports Park after he started in fourth place. The win is his third of the season and the 35th of his IndyCar career. Power won the 248-lap race around the four-turn, 1.25-mile (2.012-kilometer) Gateway Motorsports Park oval in Madison, Illinois in his #12 Chevrolet by 1.3117 seconds over second place finisher Alexander Rossi of Andretti Autosport, who was the highest finishing Honda driver of the race in his #27 Honda. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon, who leads the championship standings, finished in third place in is #9 Honda. Team Penske’s Simon Pagenaud and Andretti Autosport’s Zach Veach rounded out the top five in fourth and fifth in their #22 Chevrolet and #26 Honda, respectively. Ed Carpenter Racing’s Spencer Pigot, Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden, Chip Ganassi Racing’s Ed Jones and Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing teammates Takuma Sato and Graham Rahal rounded out the top 10 in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #21 Chevrolet, #2 Chevrolet, #10 Honda, #30 Honda and #15 Honda, respectively. The race featured a total of 10 lead changes among five drivers. Aside of Power, who led 93 laps of the race, four drivers led at least one lap of the race. Those drivers were Rossi, Dixon, Veach and Sato. Dixon led more laps than anybody else in the field with laps 145 led. The race also featured a total of two caution flag periods for 16 laps. The first caution flag period of the race began on lap one when Sebastien Bourdais spun out and hit the turn two wall. The second caution flag period of the race began on lap 173 when Ryan Hunter-Reay was slow on the back straightaway with a mechanical issue, and it changed the complexion of the race. During this caution flag period, the race leaders came into the pits with 71 laps to go. Many of them opted to run hard throughout the rest of the race knowing that they would need to come into the pits again unless a caution flag period flew, but Rossi opted to save fuel. While Rossi did manage to save fuel to make it to the end of the race on an impressive 71-lap stint, Power was able to pass him for the win late in the race, although it wasn’t for the lead at the time, because of the fact that he had come into the pits to get more fuel. Of the 21 drivers who started the race, only two failed to finish it. Of the 19 drivers who finished the race, eight finished it on the lead lap. Here are the full race results of the 2018 Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park. Race Results 1st – Will Power 2nd – Alexander Rossi 3rd – Scott Dixon 4th – Simon Pagenaud 5th – Zach Veach 6th – Spencer Pigot 7th – Josef Newgarden 8th – Ed Jones 9th – Takuma Sato 10th – Graham Rahal 11th – Pietro Fittipaldi 12th – Ed Carpenter 13th – Tony Kanaan 14th – Marco Andretti 15th – James Hinchcliffe 16th – Matheus Leist 17th – Max Chilton 18th – Gabby Chaves 19th – Charlie Kimball 20th – Ryan Hunter-Reay 21st – Sebastien Bourdais Apply to Beyond the Flag. Start your application process by filling out the fields below The next IndyCar race is scheduled to take place on Sunday, September 2. That race is set to take place at Portland International Raceway in Portland, Oregon, and it is set to be broadcast live on NBC Sports Network beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET.