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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Will Power capped his first IndyCar Series championship with a $1 million bonus check.Power won his first series championship Saturday night, finishing ninth in the final race at Fontana before raising the Astor Cup for the first time in a career filled with agonizing misses.Power and team owner Roger Penske were presented with the championship bonus check and replicas of the Astor Cup, the IndyCar Series championship trophy.Its still sinking in really, Power said at the post-season IndyCar banquet. When you want something so bad for so long, its such a relief when you finally get it. Its exactly that, a culmination of 15 years of hard work to get to this point.Power also received a championship ring, a $75,000 prize for winning the most races and the Verizon P1 Award for scoring the most points among pole winners.Power headlined a banner year for Team Penske. Matt Jonnson, chief mechanic for Powers No. 12 Chevrolet, accepted the Verizon IndyCar Series Chief Mechanic of the Year Award. Jon Bouslog of Team Penske accepted the Team Manager of the Year Award.In other awards: Carlos Munoz of Andretti Autosport earned $50,000 as IndyCars Rookie of the Year and Jack Hawksworth won the Tony Renna Rising Star Award.Charlie Kimball claimed the $25,000 TAG Heuer Dont Crack Under Pressure Award for advancing the most cumulative places during the season.Juan Pablo Montoya was voted favourite driver by Verizon IndyCar Series fans in his first year back after several seasons in NASCAR.Jim Campbell, Chevrolets vice-president of performance vehicles and motorsports, accepted the manufacturers award on behalf of Chevrolet.Helio Castroneves of Team Penske was honoured as the second-place finisher in the championship while 2013 series champion Scott Dixon of Target Chip Ganassi Racing was honoured for finishing third.Susie Wheldon was selected the winner of the Dan and Susie Wheldon Make a Difference Award. A $1,000 donation to charity will be made in her honour._____FORMULA 1: Haas Formula is now Haas F1 Team.Gene Haas, founder of Haas Automation and chairman of the newly renamed Haas F1 Team, opted for the name change to better correlate his team with the FIA Formula 1 World Championship.Haas also has motorsports holdings in Windshear. Windshear is a 180 mph rolling-road wind tunnel in Concord, North Carolina, that is the first of its kind in North America.Haas founded Haas Automation in 1983 and has shaped it into the largest CNC machine tool builder in North America.Haas Automation has an excellent reputation in the United States and I want that reputation to grow worldwide, he said. Connecting Haas Automation with F1 in name and in practice when the Haas F1 Team debuts in 2016 is the best way to grow our business and elevate Haas Automation to a premium, global brand.The last U.S.-based Formula One team was Parnelli Jones Racing in 1974-76, when Mario Andretti drove.Haas selected Scuderia Ferrari as its technical partner.Scuderia Ferrari, the most successful team in the history of Formula One with 16 constructors titles and 15 driver championships, will provide Haas F1 Team its power unit, gearbox and overall technical support.Aligning Haas F1 Team with such a tenured and successful company in Scuderia Ferrari provides our team with the greatest opportunity for success in 2016 and beyond, Haas said.The power unit consists of the engine, the motor generator unit-kinetic, the motor generator unit-heat, the energy store, turbocharger, and control electronics. The gearbox, or transmission, has eight forward gears, which are operated by the driver via paddles affixed to the back of the steering wheel.We understand there is some heavy lifting ahead of us, but know that with their technical support, we will develop a team of talented people at an exceptional pace so that were ready to race competitively in 2016, Haas F1 Team Principal Guenther Steiner said. We are focused on the future and look forward to whats ahead for Haas F1 Team.___INCREASED VIEWERSHIP: NBC Sports Networks coverage of the 2014 IndyCar Series averaged 378,000 viewers, the second-highest average for a season on the network since IndyCar rights were acquired in 2009.The best the network ever did was an average of 402,000 in 2011). Still, NBCSNs IndyCar coverage this season was up 34 per cent from the networks average viewership for the series for the 2013 season, according to data provided by The Nielsen Company.The viewership increases this year clearly demonstrate the benefits of everyone in the industry working together, said Jon Miller, President, Programming, NBC Sports & NBCSN. Our two organizations successfully co-operated to reduce scheduling conflicts; drivers and teams delivered thrilling races week after week; our marketing department drove viewers to telecasts by utilizing all of our motorsports platforms; and our production team continued its best-in-class coverage. We look forward to growing viewership for the sport for many years to come.___SPEAKING: We took our position, and we thought about it deep and hard, NASCAR President Mike Helton on NASCAR granting Tony Stewart a waiver to get into the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship should he qualify. 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As the Winnipeg Blue Bombers opened their main training camp Sunday, Kuale is one of the newcomers brought in to bolster a sagging defence that ranked overall where the Bombers finished 2013, in the CFL cellar with a league high 585 points against. After brief stints in Montreal and Saskatchewan in 2013, Kuale is entering his fifth year in the CFL in Winnipeg, where the Bombers are now coached by former Toronto special teams co-ordinator Mike OShea. The two have a lot of good things to say about each other. "He understands what its like to be a player," says Kuale, who played special teams in Toronto when OShea was there. "He approaches the game differently from any of the coaches Ive ever been around." The Bombers are in need of a middle linebacker after star Canadian Henoc Muamba jumped to the NFL and Kuale, six-foot-two, 238 pounds, is certainly a contender. "Theres good competition at that middle linebacker spot but Kuale is, having coached him in Toronto, hes a different type of player," said OShea. "Hes very physical. Hes always in great shape and he can be a leader, that sort of emotional type of leader for guys. Hes come in and hes not let us down." For someone who will turn 31 in July, Kuale showed no ill effects Sunday from a four-and-a-half-hour practice in weather that wouldnt have been out of place in his hometown of Daytona Beach, Fla. "I feel great today although I should have brought my old cleats, my brand new cleats have my feet hurting a bit. . . I pulled a rookie move, Im a vet, I should know better." Veteran offensive lineman Glenn January liked what he saw at camp. The O-line is another place the Bombers are looking to add talent. 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"You cant get a bead on it, its different," he says. "I might not be playing the position you see me playing today... The scouting report says `This guy plays here. Next week when they see us, I might play there for the first snap, who knows the rest of the game... I think thats a good advantage for us." The first day of camp brought its share of injuries. Former Detroit Lions running back Kevin Smith was sidelined with a hamstring pull when he jumped to make a catch early in practice. Canadian wide receiver Jordan Brescacin also had a hamstring injury. Canadian linebacker Jesse Briggs was favouring an arm but OShea said they didnt have a report on what might have happened. Offensive lineman Paul Swiston wasnt on the field and is still recovering from off-season surgery, said the coach. Defensive lineman Willie Moseley is expected to return in a couple of days from a muscle strain. 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