Will Power’s race engineer Dave Faustino says both he and his driver are not going to be distracted by points possibilities in their championship battle with teammate Simon Pagenaud at Sonoma this weekend. Power enters the weekend 43 points behind Team Penske-Chevrolet teammate Pagenaud. Should the 2014 Verizon IndyCar Series champion win the race and take maximum bonus points – one for pole, one for leading a lap and two for leading most laps – it would oblige Pagenaud to finish fourth. Were Power to win but without all those bonus points, Pagenaud can emerge with the championship with a fifth place.  But Faustino, who first worked with Power in 2007 at Walker Racing and rejoined...
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