The Grand Prix of Portland was the race this year in which the IndyCar championship was decided. After 21 laps, Pato O’Ward lost electonics, which automatically made Alex Palou champion. That makes Palou a four-time IndyCar champion, while Chip Ganassi Racing claimed its seventeenth drivers’ title – putting the team level with Team Penske. What else stood out? We analyze the race weekend through a series of numbers!

1389 - With 1,389 points, Honda secured the manufacturers’ championship early. With twelve wins compared to only three wins by Chevrolet drivers, this championship was never a close battle.

374 - Prema is making great strides forward. With Callum Ilott’s sixth-place finish, the team scored its fourth top-ten result in four races. Ilott and teammate Robert Shwartzman have combined for 374 points, leaving the duo just narrowly behind the Dale Coyne Racing pair VeeKay/Abel (379 points) and the Juncos Hollinger Racing pair Daly/Robb (380 points).

200 - During the Portland race, exactly 200 on-track passes for position were recorded. That’s significantly more than last year, when there were 124.

151 - Due to electrical problems for Pato O'Ward, the championship was decided early in the race. O'Ward finished 25th, ten laps down, scoring only six points. This increased his deficit to 151 points.

60.1259 - Will Power underlined his victory by also setting the fastest lap of the race: on lap 22, he covered the 3.2-kilometer circuit in 1:00.1259, or 60.1259 seconds.

45 - For Will Power, his win in Portland was his 45th IndyCar victory. He remains fourth on the all-time IndyCar wins list, behind AJ Foyt, Scott Dixon and Mario Andretti.

29 - As the end of the season quickly approaches, the battle for spots in the ‘Leader Circle’ is once again interesting – the top 22 in ‘entrant points’ (excluding Prema) earn about $1 million in prize money. Unlike last year, it doesn’t seem to be a close fight this time.

The #45 car of Louis Foster sits just inside the ‘Leader Circle,’ while the #77 car of Sting Ray Robb is 29 points back. The #30 car of Devlin DeFrancesco and the #51 car of Jacob Abel also appear to be outside the ‘Leader Circle.’

Good news for Dale Coyne Racing: after both cars missed the ‘Leader Circle’ last year, the team is guaranteed ‘Leader Circle’ money this year thanks to the strong performances of Rinus VeeKay.

27.839 - The fastest pit stop of the race, measured from pit entry to pit exit, was made by the #4 AJ Foyt Racing crew of David Malukas. On lap 104, Malukas took just 27.839 seconds. Not surprisingly, this stop was quick because he only needed enough fuel for six laps.

17 - For Chip Ganassi Racing, Alex Palou’s title marks the team’s seventeenth drivers’ championship in IndyCar history, tying them with Team Penske. The other titles came from Scott Dixon (six), Dario Franchitti (three), Alex Zanardi (two), Jimmy Vasser (one) and Juan Pablo Montoya (one).

15 - Graham Rahal was the driver who made up the most positions during the race: he started 22nd and finished fourth – a gain of 18 spots!

13 - The highest-finishing rookie in the race was Louis Foster in thirteenth place. He finished slightly ahead of Robert Shwartzman in fifteenth. Foster now has a six-point lead in the Rookie of the Year standings.

10 - The disastrous season for Josef Newgarden continues: after a – by this year’s standards – solid ninth-place qualifying result, he seemed on his way to a fifth-place finish until Scott Dixon spun him around after his final pit stop. Newgarden dropped to a disappointing 24th at the finish, the tenth time in fifteen races that the Penske driver has failed to finish in the top ten. He also falls to eighteenth in the championship standings.

6 - Callum Ilott’s sixth-place finish is Prema’s best result in the team’s still-short IndyCar history.

5 - In total, five different drivers led at least one lap: Will Power (78 laps), Pato O'Ward (15 laps), Graham Rahal (10 laps), Alex Palou (5 laps), and Josef Newgarden (2 laps).

4 - Alex Palou captured his fourth title in just five years – impressive! The other drivers with four IndyCar titles to their name are Mario Andretti, Sébastien Bourdais and Dario Franchitti.

4 - Race control handed out four penalties during the race:

Kyffin Simpson had to drop to the back of the field due to contact with Louis Foster.

Devlin DeFrancesco was penalized once with a three-place drop and once with a five-place drop for blocking other drivers.

Scott Dixon received a drive-through penalty for contact with Josef Newgarden.

4-5-6 - In fourth, fifth and sixth place after the race in Portland, there were nothing but happy faces. For Graham Rahal (fourth), Alexander Rossi (fifth) and Callum Ilott (sixth), it was their best finish of the season.

4 - A three-stop strategy proved to be the winning strategy on Sunday. The only two drivers in the top ten on a four-stop strategy were Graham Rahal and Callum Ilott. It still took them from outside the top 20 on the starting grid to a top-six result at the finish.

3 - Last weekend’s victory was Will Power’s third at Portland International Raceway. That ties him for the record on this circuit – Al Unser Jr. and Michael Andretti have also won here three times.

2 - The Portland race was one in which the soft tire was by far the most popular choice. Only two drivers ran more than the one mandatory stint on the hard tire: Sting Ray Robb (three stints, including one of four and one of five laps) and Pato O'Ward (two stints, but no longer than seven laps).