The race went without a caution, and Bourdais beat second place Justin Wilson by 13.537 seconds. IndyCar Series 2018: After a ten-year absence, Portland returns to the Indy car calendar. Will Power won the pole for the return race, breaking Justin Wilson's track record from 2005. On the first corner, Zach Veach gave James Hinchcliffe no room and spun him out into traffic including drivers Ed Jones, Graham Rahal, Scott Dixon, and Marco Andretti who went up on the wheels of Hinchcliffe and went over him and Ed Jones and landing on his top. Scott Dixon stopped and hit nothing and continued on, amazingly he finished the race fifth. In the end after Alexander Rossi and Josef Newgarden dominated the race, an untimely caution came out and shuffled the field around. Max Chilton stayed out and led a few laps before pitting late, giving the lead to Takuma Sato, he led the final laps while conserving push to pass seconds and holding off Ryan Hunter-Reay who was charging at the end. It was Sato's first win on a permanent road course and first since his 2017 Indianapolis 500 win. 2019: Colton Herta started on pole but, the race was won by Will Power with Felix Rosenqvist finishing second and Alexander Rossi third. The 1st corner of the 1st lap also ended up taking out both SPM cars, and Zach Veach after Graham Rahal tried a move that was too late going on the inside. Graham was also taken out as well. 2020: On July 27, 2020, IndyCar officials were forced to cancel the 2020 edition of the race due to the state of Oregon's ban on gatherings of more than 100 people because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021: IndyCar returned to Portland in 2021 under the leadership of Roger Penske. Alex Palou took his first pole position of the season and despite getting cycled back after an early first turn pile up managed to win the race to retake the championship points lead. Alexander Rossi earned his first podium of the season with a second-place finish while Scott Dixon would finish third. 2022: Scott McLaughlin qualified on pole. To prevent a first lap first corner pileup the drivers agreed to get the green flag further back on the front straight than previous years. This early start was successful in preventing a first lap pileup, and the race went 97 laps