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Honda on brink of first IndyCar manufacturer's title
For the first time since Chevrolet rejoined the IndyCar series in 2012, Honda is going to capture the manufacturers' championship.
The Bow Tie Brigade's streak of six in a row is over because Team Penske's trio of Josef Newgarden, Will Power and Simon Pagenaud have used more than the allotted four engines, so none of the points they scored the past two races or continuing forward will count toward that title.
Power, fourth in the driver's standings, used his sixth engine over the weekend at Pocono and Pagenaud has also used six, while 2017 IndyCar champ Newgarden is on his fifth.
At the moment, all the Honda teams are on their fourth engine and Alexander Rossi's third victory of the season Sunday gave Honda a 283-point advantage with three races remaining and a maximum of 288 points still available.
So, unless AJ Foyt Racing, Ed Carpenter Racing or another Chevy team sweep the top three spots at Gateway, Portland and Sonoma, the manufacturer's title will be changing hands for the first time.
Robin Miller
Robin Miller flunked out of Ball State after two quarters, but got a job stooging for Jim Hurtubise at the 1968 Indianapolis 500 when Herk's was the last roadster to ever make the race. He got hired at The Indianapolis Star a month later and talked his way into the sports department, where he began covering USAC and IndyCar racing. He got fired at The Star for being anti-Tony George, but ESPN hired him to write and do RPM2Nite. Then he went to SPEED and worked on WIND TUNNEL and SPEED REPORT. He started at RACER when SPEED folded, and went on to write for RACER.com and RACER magazine while also working for NBCSN on IndyCar telecasts.
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