Power wins at impressive clip

Over the last five years, no driver has won more Indy car races than Will Power.

Twenty of the Australian's 24 career Indy car wins have come since he joined Team Penske as a full-time Verizon IndyCar Series driver in 2010.

Power's five-year rise from race winner to title contender, and finally, the Verizon IndyCar Series champion, is impressive and so is his winning percentage over that time – 23.256 percent.

Power's winning percentage stacks up favorably against the greats of the sport.

A.J. Foyt, who holds the all-time record for victories in Indy car history with 67, won at an 18 percent clip. Power, for his part, has won 24 out of the 139 times he's strapped into an Indy car – 17.26 percent of the races he's started.

Power's winning percentage isn't unparalleled among his contemporaries, though.

Sebastien Bourdais' domination of the Champ Car World Series from 2004-2007 resulted in 31 wins over 69 starts (nearly 45 percent), and even with one win since his full-time return to Indy car racing, the Frenchman's winning percentage remains close to 25 percent — which is on par with the PGA winning percentage of Tiger Woods.

INDY CAR DRIVER WINNING PERCENTAGES: (Min 100 starts)

Driver Wins Starts Winning Percentage
Sebastien Bourdais 32 131 24.427%
A.J. Foyt 67 369 18.157%
Will Power 24 139 17.266%
Sam Hornish Jr. 19 116 16.379%
Scott Dixon 35 238 14.706%
Rick Mears 29 202 14.356%
Michael Andretti 43 317 13.565%
Bobby Unser 35 259 13.514%
Mario Andretti 52 407 12.776%
Dan Wheldon 16 128 12.500%
Dario Franchitti 31 265 11.698%
Helio Castroneves 29 295 9.831%
Ryan Hunter-Reay 14 169 8.284%
Formula 1 . . .
Juan Manuel Fangio 24 51 47.06%
Sebastian Vettel 39 136 28.676%
NASCAR . . .
Herb Thomas 48 228 21.053%
Jimmie Johnson 69 466 14.807%