Matt Brabham, who finished 22nd in the Indianapolis 500 as a rookie, won Sunday’s race, beating former IndyCar driver EJ Viso by 3.1 seconds.
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Team Penske’s quartet of drivers dominated the race early, with championship leader Simon Pagenaud, 2014 series champion Will Power and 1999 Indy auto champion Juan Pablo Montoya leading the first 53 laps.
Castroneves set a track record in the second round of qualifying with a lap of 1 minute, 14.6899 seconds on the 2.35-mile street course.
Will Power during the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix IndyCar race.
Will Power, another Penske star, had a shifting issue with about 25 laps to go and finished 20th. I think we’ve all kind of been stumbling a little bit.
Indy auto driver Matthew Brabham took home his first win in the Speed Energy Stadium Super Truck Series as Arie Luyendyk took second.
KV Racing Technology’s Bourdais started from 13th on the grid but outsmarted the leading pack in the pits, emerging from his final stop with 13 laps to go in first place. Power will start eighth.
Team Penske returned the favor on Sunday. He’s 59 points ahead of Helio Castroneves, who finished fifth Saturday.
James Hinchcliffe finished 18th on Saturday after hitting the wall on lap 42, and Sunday turned out to be just as bad after he wound up in the wall on the first corner of the opening lap.
That race was canceled after one lap. “I thought maybe with the long run I would get back to him, which we did at the end, but it wasn’t enough”.
Munoz, whose auto had damage, labored through the second race of the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit and finished 15th.
DEJA VU: Penske also swept the top three spots in qualifying for last year’s first race at Belle Isle. He was followed by Charlie Kimball, Graham Rahal and Indy 500 victor Alexander Rossi.
It was Power’s first IndyCar victory since the 2015 Grand Prix of Indianapolis, the Australian driver snapping a 19-race winless streak.
Row three will consist of Indy 500 runner-up Carlos Munoz in the #26 Magneti Marelli Honda and reigning Verizon IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon in the #9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet.
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Dixon deserved to finish ahead of Castroneves after the Brazilian’s vehicle hit his coming to the green flag.
