Motorsport: Power, Dixon well-placed

Will Power of Australia. Photo / AP

Will Power keeps chipping away at Juan Pablo Montoya's IndyCar championship lead despite again falling short of a race win in Toronto.

Starting on pole for the fifth time this season, the Australian led for the first 30 laps of the 85-lap race but fell back to finish fourth on the 2.8km Exhibition Place street circuit yesterday.

American Josef Newgarden took the chequered flag, leading a CFH Racing one-two finish ahead of teammate Luca Filippi and Power's Team Penske teammate Helio Castroneves.

Kiwi Scott Dixon, who started fourth on the grid, could manage only eighth but maintained third place in the championship, 18 points behind Power.

With 10 races completed this year and six remaining, Power has won just once - in Indianapolis at the start of May. Nonetheless, he sits second in the championship standings, 27 points behind Montoya, who came in seventh in Toronto.

"[The race] went quickly. I was surprised. They said it was the end and I was like, 'Really, that's it?"' Power said.

Newgarden crossed the finish line only 1.4485 seconds ahead of his Italian teammate to capture his second race of the season.

The next race is on June 27 at Fontana, California.

- AAP