Reigning NTT IndyCar Series champion and former Indy 500 winner Will Power will make his debut in the Rolex 24 at Daytona (Fla.) with fellow American-based Australian Kenny Habul on January 28-29. “It is quite funny when you look back at how Kenny and I raced Formula Ford against each other all those years ago and now we are going to be teammates. Power grew up only a couple of hours from Habul’s hometown of Surfers Paradise, Queensland, and the two raced against each other in the National Formula Ford Championship. “Will and I have been friends since we raced Formula Ford against each other in the late 90s and it is quite ironic that we now have houses only a few miles apart from each other in North Carolina. “We stood on the podium together as kids, in the 1999 Formula Ford race at the Gold Coast IndyCar event, dreaming of racing Indy cars someday, Will made that dream happen and then some.

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