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LONG POND, Pa. -- They sat next to each other taking question after question after IndyCar practice, shrugging off the thought that tension might have crept into their everyday lives.For Simon Pagenaud and Will Power of Team Penske -- 1-2 in the driver standings with four races left in the season -- Saturday was just another day at the office at Pocono Raceway.Ive been in that situation before. Nothings changed. We dont talk, Power said, joking. Its good. Its expected, honestly. Every year you come into the season expecting to battle with your teammate. I battled Juan (Pablo Montoya) last year. I think the older you get the less you kind of worry about personalities and all that. It doesnt matter. When you get on the track, the best car is going to win. Its as simple as that.Pagenaud began the season with five straight top-two finishes that included three wins and outraced Power at the end of the last race, at Mid-Ohio three weeks ago, for his series-leading fourth victory.Power has made a steady march back after qualifying first for the season-opener at St. Petersburg and then being forced to sit the race because of concussion concerns. In the past five races, hes duplicated Pagenauds start, winning three times and finishing in the runner-up spot twice, to trim Pagenauds lead to 58 points as the teams prepare for Sundays 500-mile race at the tricky triangle-shaped track.Were going to have to be teammates for a long time, hopefully, Pagenaud said. We come to the track every week. If we dont get along, its going to be a nightmare. We both want to be fighting for the championship. We all want to fight against each other for the championship. That means our cars are the best. I think its the perfect situation. Theres really no point hating each other.Pagenaud barely avoided wrecks in Saturdays morning practice that collected Ryan Hunter-Reay and Penske teammate Montoya. The Frenchman later qualified 14th, his worst qualifying performance of what has been a banner season. Power will start eighth, while teammate Helio Castroneves, third in the standings and within striking distance of the top spot if his teammates have problems, will start fourth.That could be very good for us tomorrow, Castroneves said. The championship is still alive.The series resumes next week in Texas, which will be completed after being called because of rain in mid-June. Thats bad news for Joef Newgarden, fourth in points. He was leading the race when he crashed and wont be allowed to finish it.Im going to be there to support the team. Ive already finished where I finished there, said Newgarden, who trails Pagenaud by 120 points. I would have been crashed out of the race. If the rain didnt come, we finish the race, this would have been a done thing. Its only odd because its never happened before. This is unprecedented.If all goes according to plan, even with Texas, yeah, I think theres a possibility (to win the title), Newgarden said. You never know.For Power, as the season dwindles his mind still wanders back to St. Petersburg.You cant dwell on it, he said. It happened, and it was probably going to be a pretty good race for me. I was starting on pole. It was a huge chunk of points lost.If I win the championship it would not even be a factor. Ten points, though, would haunt me.Haunting, too, is the memory of Justin Wilson, who died a year ago after being hit in the helmet by debris from a late-race crash at Pocono. Pocono Raceway has painted the letters JW on the track at the finish line, Union Jacks are flying at half-staff in honor of the Englishman, and countless fans and crew members wore special socks created in his honor.Its hard to keep your mind off things when everybodys talking about it so much, Graham Rahal said. You just really want to come here and just focus on the job at hand, not what happened last year.Clearly, for a lot of us that were close to him, its tough because every time you drive down pit lane, youre reminded. Every time you look at somebodys socks youre reminded, which is a great thing in its own right. But as a driver, you need to be able to get in and do your job.---AP Auto Racing Website: www.racing.ap.org---Follow Kekis on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Greek1947 Adidas Superstar Australia Sale . Now that hes hitting streaking teammates with pin-point passes for easy layups, Love is asserting himself as one of the true superstars in the league. 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