If you take out the bad luck over the last 14 months, then Will Power would have likely won more races than anyone else in the NTT IndyCar Series. See, in 2018, Power had unbelievable bad luck.

Out of his six DNF’s, four were attributed to horrible circumstances. 2019 is already starting off how 2018 ended.

“Man, we just had some really bad luck at COTA,” Power said this week. “Something broke in the rear driver line of our car, which led to a DNF in a race I think we had a great shot at winning. I’m still really disappointed, but the team has been hard at work since they got back from the race to give me a No. 12 Verizon Chevy that will be really strong at Barber. We’ve shown to be strong at two different types of tracks to start the year – a street course and a permanent road course. So we just want to keep that momentum going. And it would be really cool to go three-for-three in P1 awards for the year.”

It all actually started in St. Pete last year. After starting on the front row, he spun in Turn 2 on the opening lap. Then a race later in Phoenix, a race that he was looking like a race winning contender, he crashed out while trying to pass a lapped car in Turn 2. Two races later in Barber, he was running second before hydroplaning on water on an ill advised restart which coincidentally enough, brought out the red flag for a race that wouldn’t resume until the next day. If they don’t go back green that day, then he gets to race in dry conditions on Monday and finishes at the very least with a podium. In Texas, he crashed while passing a slower car. In Road America, his engine quit on him while starting second on the drop of the green flag to begin the race.

I could go on and on.

Heading into 2019, Power said that he has never physically felt better. Unfortunately, the bad luck won’t go away.

In St. Pete, Sebastien Bourdais’ engine blew which in turn caused Power’s race strategist Roger Penske to call him down pit lane early in fear for a full course caution. That cost him the win in retrospect. He’d lose ground to Felix Rosenqvist and eventually finish third.

Last race in COTA, he didn’t pit early enough on his final pit sequence and would get caught out by a yellow. Not only did that cost him a win, his drivetrain went out in the pits on his final stop ending his day with a 24th and last place finish.

Power, led all 45 laps up until that point as he went from first to worth.

Again, bad luck.

Can that end Sunday in Barber?

Power, has seven top five finishes in nine Barber tries including a win in 2011 and again in 2012.