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Australia’s two-time IndyCar champ Will Power has signed up with Formula One star Fernando Alonso’s new company as he prepares to negotiate a new contract deal.
Power, the 2018 Indianapolis 500 winner, has signed up with an agent for the first time as he heads into his contract year with Team Penske in the US.
A14 Management, the new company launched by Alonso and fellow Spanish driver Oriol Servia, announced on Wednesday that they’d added Power as their client.
It’s the biggest signing yet for Alonso, the two-time world champ, and Servia, a longtime open-wheel driver who is now IndyCar’s pace car driver.
Power, who turns 44 in March, joined Penske’s powerhouse team in 2009. The Australian broke Mario Andretti’s IndyCar career record for poles in 2022 and has since extended that mark to 70 — three more than Andretti finished with in his long career.
Power also ranks fourth all-time with 44 wins. Only A.J. Foyt (67), Scott Dixon (58) and Andretti (52) have reached victory lane more often.
Power won three races and finished fourth in the IndyCar points last year, his 24th season competing in a major open-wheel circuit.
He now has someone to negotiate both a new IndyCar contract as well as potential races outside the series.
Power was scheduled to compete in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2023 but withdrew when his wife was hospitalised with a life-threatening staph infection.
He has said he would like to compete in sports cars, specifically the Le Mans 24 Hours race, and may even give NASCAR a try.
