Power in first IndyCar win of 2016

Australian driver Will Power has overcome a costly penalty in qualifying to win his first race of the IndyCar season at Belle Isle.

Power, denied a track record in qualifying when penalised for interference - which saw him start from eighth on the grid - prevailed for his 26th career victory and first since the Grand Prix of Indianapolis in May 2015.

Power held off points leader Simon Pagenaud to win by 0.92 seconds, having passed the pole-sitter with 18 laps remaining before taking over the race lead on the 61st of 70 laps on the street course.

Ryan Hunter-Reay finished third, and Josef Newgarden was fourth.

Sebastien Bourdais, who won the weekend's first IndyCar race at Belle Isle on Saturday, finished eighth.

Indianapolis 500 winner Alexander Rossi was 12th.

Power and Pagenaud gave team owner Roger Penske a 1-2 finish on Sunday, although teammate Juan Pablo Montoya went into the wall around the race's halfway point and finished 20th.

Helio Castroneves, another Penske driver, was at the front with Pagenaud before the last of the day's three caution periods.

Aussie Power had only two top-five finishes in the first seven races this season.

He had a shifting issue Saturday and ended up 20th.