After one of its best opening qualifying results on Friday, Team Australia faced one of its toughest race days of the season in the fifth round of the Champ Car World Series at the Portland International Raceway in Oregon today. source: teamaustraliamotorsport.com Will Power, who is from Toowoomba in Queensland, suffered major brake problems on his Aussie Vineyards Lola early in the race and was forced to pit for a long period which put him 13 laps behind the leader. He rejoined the race and used the remaining laps to practice fuel strategy. At the same time he managed to notch the fastest lap of the race. Power was officially ruled 18th in one of the few Champ Car races in recent times where all 18 cars were active at the end of the event. As a result, he has dropped to 14th in the championship and to third in the Rookie of the Year standings, just three points behind Katherine Legge and four behind David Clarke. Alex Tagliani struggled with fuel economy all race in his Aussie Vineyards Lola and never really recovered from an early stop. The team was banking on a yellow flag period to work its strategy, but, remarkably, it never came. The talented Canadian officially finished 11th and now sits ninth in the championship.
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