Sports FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Will Power cashes in on 1st IndyCar title

CHARLOTTE: capped his first IndyCar Series Charlie Kimball claimed the $25,000 TAG Heuer “Don’t Haas founded Haas Automation in 1983 and has championship with a $1 million bonus check. Power won Crack Under Pressure” Award for advancing the most shaped it into the largest CNC machine tool builder in his first series championship Saturday night, finishing cumulative places during the season. Juan Pablo North America. “Haas Automation has an excellent repu- ninth in the final race at Fontana before raising the Astor Montoya was voted favorite driver by Verizon IndyCar tation in the and I want that reputation to Cup for the first time in a career filled with agonizing Series fans in his first year back after several seasons in grow worldwide,” he said. “Connecting Haas Automation misses. Power and team owner were pre- NASCAR. Jim Campbell, ’s vice president of per- with F1 in name and in practice when the Haas F1 Team sented with the championship bonus check and replicas formance vehicles and motorsports, accepted the manu- debuts in 2016 is the best way to grow our business and of the Astor Cup, the IndyCar Series championship tro- facturer’s award on behalf of Chevrolet. Helio Castroneves elevate Haas Automation to a premium, global brand.” phy. “It’s still sinking in really,” Power said at the postsea- of was honored as the second-place finisher The last US-based Formula One team was Parnelli son IndyCar banquet. “When you want something so bad in the championship while 2013 series champion Scott Jones Racing in 1974-76, when Mario Andretti drove. for so long, it’s such a relief when you finally get it. It’s Dixon of Target was honored for fin- Haas selected Scuderia Ferrari as its technical partner. exactly that, a culmination of 15 years of hard work to get ishing third. Susie Wheldon was selected the winner of Scuderia Ferrari, the most successful team in the history to this point.” the Dan and Susie Wheldon Make a Difference Award. A of Formula One with 16 constructors titles and 15 driver Power also received a championship ring, a $75,000 $1,000 donation to charity will be made in her honor. championships, will provide Haas F1 Team its power unit, prize for winning the most races and the Verizon P1 gearbox and overall technical support. Award for scoring the most points among pole winners. FORMULA 1 “Aligning Haas F1 Team with such a tenured and suc- Power headlined a banner year for Team Penske. Matt Haas Formula is now Haas F1 Team. Gene Haas, cessful company in Scuderia Ferrari provides our team Jonnson, chief mechanic for Power’s No. 12 Chevrolet, founder of Haas Automation and chairman of the newly with the greatest opportunity for success in 2016 and accepted the Verizon IndyCar Series Chief Mechanic of renamed Haas F1 Team, opted for the name change to beyond,” Haas said. The power unit consists of the the Year Award. Jon Bouslog of Team Penske accepted better correlate his team with the FIA Formula 1 World engine, the motor generator unit-kinetic, the motor gen- the Team Manager of the Year Award. Championship. Haas also has motorsports holdings in erator unit-heat, the energy store, turbocharger, and con- In other awards: Carlos Munoz of Windshear. Windshear is a 180 mph rolling-road wind trol electronics. The gearbox, or transmission, has eight earned $50,000 as IndyCar’s Rookie of the Year and Jack tunnel in Concord, North Carolina, that is the first of its forward gears, which are operated by the driver via pad- Hawksworth won the Tony Renna Rising Star Award. kind in North America. dles affixed to the back of the steering wheel.—AP Wallabies to do battle up front with Boks in Perth

SYDNEY: The headlines have focused on Bryan doned his experiment with Kurtley Beale at Habana’s 100th test and a new Wallabies half- number 10. It will be the performance up front, back partnership but it is in the maelstrom of however, that is likely to determine whether the forward battle that tomorrow’s clash Australia can secure a first victory against one of between Australia and South Africa is likely to the traditional southern hemisphere powers be decided. since McKenzie took charge. The Springboks go into the match at Perth’s If McKenzie had any doubt about South Subiaco Oval (1005 GMT) leading the Rugby Africa’s approach to the match, they were dis- Championship after two narrow victories over pelled when Heyneke Meyer made six changes Argentina, while Australia remain winless after a to the team that squeaked past Argentina 33-31 draw and a 51-20 pummeling at the hands of in Salta. the All Blacks. Adriaan Strauss came in at hooker alongside McKenzie responded to the humiliation at Tendai “The Beast” Mtawarira in the front row, Eden Park by reshuffling his backline but the six- Victor Matfield slotted back into the second row two split in favour of the forwards on his and Morne Steyn returned at flyhalf in place of replacements bench is perhaps a better indica- the dropped Handre Pollard. MONZA: (L to R) Mercedes’ German driver Nico Rosberg, Scuderia Ferrari’s Spanish driver Fernando tion of the sort of match he is expecting. Strauss wins his place ahead of Bismarck du Alonso and Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton hold a press conference at the Autodromo Scrumhalf Nick Phipps and flyhalf Bernard Plessis because of his discipline, strong scrum- Nazionale circuit in Monza yesterday ahead of the Italian Formula One Grand Prix. — AFP Foley, the fulcrum of New South Wales maging and accurate throwing-in, while Waratahs’ Super Rugby triumph, will start a test Matfield remains an almost peerless ball winner Ferrari braced for together for the first time after McKenzie aban- at line-out time.—Reuters challenging race

MONZA: Ferrari team chief Marco Mattiacci has “Obviously, there has been a lot of talk from warned the iconic team’s fans to expect “an the summer of last year, the start more or less, extremely difficult” home race at this weekend’s but from my mouth never came any interest to Italian Grand Prix at Monza. leave Ferrari or any words saying that I will join While most attention will be focussed on the another team,” he explained. “There are a lot of resumption of hostilities between the champi- speculations which is not disturbing, but it cre- onship leading Mercedes duo Nico Rosberg and ates a bit of tension around and stress, but also Lewis Hamilton, the tifosi will be more con- you feel proud, you feel happy that the best cerned with the travails of the scarlet scuderia as teams have interest in you and they say it in they bid for some glory on home soil. public.” Alonso acknowledged that he is not rel- “We must keep doing what we’ve been ishing racing his Ferrari this year following the doing, which is keep very calm, make the right radical rule changes that have reduced noise decisions knowing that we are away from the and speed, and increased the frustration. “It is top, and take any opportunities,” said Mattiacci. quite boring in the car,” he admitted. “It is a “That’s the approach we have for Monza. It’s tough year to be in Formula One.” going to be extremely difficult, that we are aware. Let’s see what we can do on the other Rosberg reprimanded side.” Ferrari have not won their home Grand The same cannot be said for Mercedes Prix since two-time champion Fernando Alonso where, following Rosberg’s collision with was triumphant in 2010 - a feeling he wants to Hamilton at the Belgian Grand Prix, the team repeat in the future, if winning is beyond the reprimanded and punished the championship- team this Sunday, he said this week. leading German. “I want to win for Ferrari, I want to win here He and Hamilton, who is 29 points behind and finish the job that we started some years with seven races remaining, spoke of continuing ago and we will see what the future comes,” the to work together, despite their differences and BEGLE: A file photo taken on August 16, 2014 shows Bordeaux’ winger Sofiane Guitoune (L) vying Spaniard said, in an interview with Sky Sports rivalry, but it is difficult to imagine that they will for the ball with Lyon’s Enrico Januarie during the French Top 14 rugby union match between News during which he also made clear he has avoid any further conflict as the title race runs Union Bordeaux-Begles (UBB) and Lyon (LOU) at the Andre Moga stadium in Begle. — AFP no intention of leaving Ferrari for another team. down to the wire.—AFP