Approaching rain and lightning caused the race to be shortened to only 128 of the scheduled 200 laps allowing Will Power to capture victory.

Simon Pagenaud moved to the inside of Josef Newgarden to take the lead entering the first turn.

Heading down the Long Pond Straight into turn two, Takuma Sato moved to the outside of Alexander Rossi and Ryan Hunter-Reay for the fifth position.

They glanced off the inside wall and slid across the track, collecting Felix Rosenqvist and James Hinchcliffe.

The left-front wheel was sheared off by the catchfence, damaging the fence before landing back on the racing surface.

[10] Defending Pocono 500 champion, Alexander Rossi told NBCSN, "I can't even begin to understand after last year how Takuma thinks any sort of driving like that is acceptable.

"[10] While some said the crash was caused by Sato coming across the track, his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team issued a statement with video and telemetry data defending their driver.

The teams of Alexander Rossi and James Hinchcliffe continued to repair their cars under the red flag, against rules, for which they were penalized 10 laps.

Dixon remained within two seconds of the lead until Pagenaud pitted under green for fuel and tires on lap 38.

On lap 40, Spencer Pigot hit the turn one wall with the right side of his car when a suspension piece broke.

On lap 70, Pagenaud was slowed by the damaged car of James Hinchcliffe in turn three which allowed Power to take the lead.

The car slid and impacted the outside wall with the right-rear suspension, which put the rookie out of the race.

Heavy rains followed and the race was called official with Will Power winning his third Pocono 500 in four years.

[9] Those concerns were compounded by 2019 being the final year of the race's title sponsorship with ABC Supply.

Even if we took a year off, I can’t see us not racing at Pocono.”[17] Fellow drivers Tony Kanaan, Alexander Rossi, and Graham Rahal also voiced support for a return.

[19] Should the series not return in 2020, it was reported that Pocono offered to host an IndyCar race once every three years.

[20] This would serve as part of a rotation of three east-coast tracks, with Pocono, Richmond, and Watkins Glen each hosting a race once every three years.

"[21] Sage Karam tweeted, "I don’t want people to think that I dislike Pocono.

"[21] In their press conference immediately after the 2019 race, series champions Scott Dixon, Will Power, and Simon Pagenaud defended the track's safety and expressed their desire that IndyCar would return.

If you look at Justin [Wilson, who was killed by flying debris at Pocono in 2015] or Robbie [Wickens], those can happen anywhere.

It’s a cool track for us… It's hard for us to find good ovals these days that suit our cars.

Then at the last second - and this is the part that disturbs me because it shows they had already made up their mind and had no intention of coming back - they said now we need to have Pocono basically spend $1 million in improvements before next year.

"[25] On November 3, 2019, Roger Penske purchased the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the IndyCar Series itself.

[26] Andretti believed that if Penske had owned the series a few months earlier, IndyCar would have never left Pocono.

“We would’ve never been out of Pocono.” Furthermore, any attempts to reinstate the race once Penske's ownership began were complicated by NBC's broadcast of the 2020 Olympics which rearranged their sports programming.