After finishing runner-up in Portland, Power heads to next week’s season finale at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca with a 20-point lead over teammate Josef Newgarden and Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s Scott Dixon. But after finishing just behind teammate McLaughlin, who led 104 of the 110 laps, and just ahead of Dixon, who climbed from 16th to third, Power said “Absolutely. I was on the radio asking for [team orders].”
He later added: “Yeah, 10, 11 points would be great; I think we’d go in there pretty confident that we could get it done; 20, it's still a big fight.” However, Power conceded, too, “I get it from the standpoint that Scott is in. I've been there, and you don't want to give up a win.”
