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Power: Short tracks “should be hard… Downforce is a Band-Aid”

Will Power has endorsed IndyCar’s 2018 aero package at Iowa Speedway, saying that the cars are much harder to drive than in previous years – and that’s the way it should be. The Team Penske-Chevrolet driver scored his second pole of the season and his third at Iowa Speedway, saying afterwards that it was one of the more demanding qualifying runs he’d had at the 0.894-mile course. He explained: “It's really difficult to understand the grip level – when you should lift and how you should get back on the throttle, so you never feel like you did the best lap. “But that's short-track racing and the formula we run now is always difficult. I've definitely had a lot easier qualifying...
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