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In the twilight of his IndyCar career, Will Power says immoderate accolades are a bonus astatine this point.
The Toowoomba-born operator already has an IndyCar Series triumph to his name, which helium claimed successful 2014 implicit past Team Penske stablemate Helio Castroneves.
Power already has an Indianapolis 500 triumph too, emphatically claiming the 2018 variation implicit Ed Carpenter and Scott Dixon.
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It's those successes, and an assured thrust into 2023, that has Power astatine easiness with immoderate effect helium winds up with astatine the extremity of this season.
"I'm mode much relaxed," Power told Stan Sport's Pit Lane podcast.
"I've been astir truthful long, decidedly not feeling that monolithic unit that I person to bash it. I'm not warring to support my ride.
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"I've had a large vocation up to this point. Anything I adhd connected is simply a bonus. I inactive person a monolithic occurrence successful my belly. I truly privation to triumph it.
"The squad that I've had astir maine this year, the radical connected my car has been phenomenal. I consciousness similar I privation to triumph it much for them than for myself.
"It would beryllium truly chill for america to triumph that."
This year's effort is successful stark opposition to the 2014 run successful which Power said helium was fretting adjacent with an vantage going into the finale.
"I retrieve successful 2014 I wasn't sleeping for 2 weeks earlier the past race," said Power.
"It's decidedly not similar that. I conscionable cognize this crippled truthful well. I'm conscionable gonna bash what I do."
Power's nearest rivals, teammate Josef Newgarden and Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon, some prevarication 2nd successful the standings and 20 points successful arrears.
Marcus Ericsson and Scott McLaughlin are extracurricular chances astatine victory, sitting 39 and 41 points adrift respectively.
A podium decorativeness successful the season-finale astatine Laguna Seca would unafraid Power the title.
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However, arsenic the 39-year-old attested, the 2022 play has been thing but plain sailing.
"It's inactive going to beryllium a precise pugnacious fight," said Power.
"If I decorativeness third, I triumph the championship, but anyone who's watched the bid implicit the season, it's conscionable excessively hard to foretell however things volition play retired due to the fact that it's conscionable truthful competitive.
"I'm conscionable ace focused connected what I request to bash this weekend. There's evidently immoderate things retired of your control, but it's going to beryllium down to the wire.
"Hopefully it flows the close mode and we don't get immoderate benignant of weird strategy with a yellowish astatine the incorrect time.
"I'm going to bash what I've been doing, conscionable executing week-in, week-out. I deliberation qualifying volition play a beauteous large portion successful however the contention goes. So beauteous focused connected that."
Laguna Seca hosts the last contention of the IndyCar Series season, which gets underway connected September 12 astatine 5am.
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