Penske Racing Team (formerly Penske Racing ) is an American professional racing car, an open car and sports racing team currently competing in the IndyCar Series, Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Debuting in the 1966 24 Hours of Daytona, this team also competed in various types of professional racing such as Can Am, Trans Am and Formula One. The Penske team is a division of the Penske Corporation, and is owned and chaired by Roger Penske. The team leader is the Cindric Team.
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Penske has been involved with IndyCar racing since 1968, when they first fielded a stock-backed Eagle with Mark Donohue. The first team competed in Indianapolis in 1969, and within three years had been the team to defeat, winning the race with Donohue in 1972. In 1978, Roger Penske along with Pat Patrick, Dan Gurney, and several other team owners who had participated in a USAC event involving cars known as Champ Cars and IndyCars forming the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART). On 27 June 2015, Penske Racing has won the Indianapolis 500 17 times, won the Indianapolis 500 pole position 17 times, as well as 200 IndyCar open wheels won at USAC, CART and IRL (as of May 19, 2015), 29 of which are in 500-Mile Races and 13 open championships. Penske Racing has 1,463 starts in the IndyCar race, 231 pole positions, 71 wins from pole, 47 double wins of which 8 of them are 1-2-3 of the Pocono race on 26 June 1977, until January 1, 2015.
In 2001, the Penske team marked its comeback to the Indy 500 after a five-year hiatus due to an open wheel split, after the IndyCar World Series PPG season of 1995. Later, in 2001 Roger Penske announced he would leave CART for IRL IndyCar Series.
Currently, the Penske Team processes four cars: Verizon Dallara/Chevrolet No. 2 for Josef Newgarden, Shell Oil Company No. 3 Dallara/Chevrolet driven by HÃÆ'Ã… © lio Castroneves, Verizon Wireless Dallara/Chevrolet no. 12 powered by Will Power, and No. 22 Penske Truck Rental Dallara/Chevrolet driven by Simon Pagenaud. Castroneves has won the Indianapolis 500 three times (2001, 2002, and 2009), as well as other CART and IRL races with Penske Team. Sam Hornish Jr. was the winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 2006 and the IndyCar Series champion (2001, 2002, and 2006), with 16 IndyCar Wins. Championships 2001 and 2002 with Panther Racing, before joining Penske's team. Juan Pablo Montoya is the winner of the Indianapolis 500 2015 and the interim leader in the championship with 2 wins this season. Open wheel racing section Penske Racing has been based in Reading, Pennsylvania since 1973 by car, during the Formula One and CART eras, built in Poole, Dorset, England as well as being the base for the F1 team. On October 31, 2005, Penske Racing announced after the IRL season of 2006, they would combine IRL and NASCAR operations at the Mooresville North Carolina team's facilities; with floods in Pennsylvania in 2006, team operations moved to Mooresville earlier than expected.
The Marlboro brand cigarette has been a sponsor with Tim Penske since 1989 Indianapolis 500, and the main sponsor of all IndyCars Penske Team since 1991. The end of 2005, Tim Penske announced that Marlboro will not appear in cars longer according to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement cigarette advertisement by name. In 2007, IndyCar Series cars started carrying the badge and sponsorship of "Tim Penske" from Mobil 1 (although the cars were still painted in the Marlboro color scheme - in Formula 1, Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro had similar arrangements). For 2009, Verizon Wireless, joined Exxon Mobil as a partner sponsor, and the team is billed as Verizon Championship Racing. The third car was driven by Will Power, which was originally a replacement for Castroneves, carrying No. 12 and featured the main sponsor of the Verizon Wireless brand and truck rental business Roger Penske.
In 2010, Phillip Morris USA broke off their relationship with Penske's Team, ending a 19-year partnership. The team then changed their livery to black and white (similar to McLaren who had a silver-black livery in 1997-2005), reflecting the Verizon sponsor. The Penske team became a team of three cars for the first time since 1994, with an additional full-time team for Power.
Roger Penske announces a switch to the Chevrolet power plant for the 2012 IndyCar Series season. Again, Penske will dominate the early part of the season, winning 4 races in a row, with Castroneves taking the season opener at St. Petersburg, and Power snatched victories at Barber, Long Beach, and SÃ <â € <â € <â € In 2014, Will Power takes the IndyCar Championship for the Penske Team after completing 3 runners-ups simultaneously in 2010-2012. The 2015 season started well for Tim Penske, Juan Pablo Montoya won his first race of the season, his second victory for Penske since he arrived from NASCAR in 2014, with Will Power team mates Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud (first season together with team) finishing 2 , 4 and 5. Power got the win at the Grand Prix of Indianapolis in the 5th race of the season and just 2 weeks later, Montoya Colombia won the Indy 500 again lead teammate Will Power. Juan Pablo Montoya will lose the championship in the final race with a tie-breaker to Scott Dixon. Penske's team will continue to dominate 2016, filling the top 3 in the final standings. Ahead of the season with a dominant race win, Simon Pagenaud won his first IndyCar championship, becoming a Penske nine rider to be crowned champion. Organization Roger Penske claimed his 14th and second title in three years (Power won in '14). 1994 PPG IndyCar World Series
Penske's 1994 IndyCar World Series Championship is one of, if not the most dominating performances of a racing team in the history of American open-wheel racing. Roger Penske has found the key to winning but also finding ways to run away from the competition. The new PC-23 Penske chassis with the Ilmor-Indy V8 engine will drive Penske Al Unser, Jr., Paul Tracy, and Emerson Fittipaldi drivers. The team collected 12 wins from 16 races, collected 10 poles and 28 podiums on the way to the championship. The team also dominated the controversial May in Indianapolis. Penske debuted with a radical new Mercedes-Benz engine in Indy, 500I. This machine uses the provisions in the rules intended for pushrod machine stock blocks such as the Buick V-6 engine which enables an additional 650Ã, cmÃ,³ and 10 inches (4.9 psi/33.8 kPa). This extra strength (at least 900 horsepower, and rumored to be in excess of 1000) allows the Penskes to run significantly faster, giving them poles and front rows outside on the grid for the 500th Indianapolis 500th. Al Unser, Jr. and Emerson Fittipaldi dominated the race, eventually pounding the pitch with 16 laps to go in a 200 lap race when Fittipaldi made contact with the wall coming out of Turn 4, giving Al Unser, Jr. lead and win. The only racer who finished on the main lap was rookie Jacques Villeneuve. This season gave Penske the Driver's Championship with Al Unser, Jr., Constructor's Cup with Penske PC-23, and Manufacturer's Cup with Ilmor-Indy V8 engine. (In 1995 Indy 500 Penske failed to qualify any car for the race)
Drivers driving for the Penske Team at American Open-wheel Racing
- Mark Donohue (1968-1975)
- David Hobbs (1971)
- Gary Bettenhausen (1972-1974)
- Gordon Johncock (1972)
- Mike Hiss (1972, 1974)
- Bobby Allison (1973, 1975)
- Tom Sneva (1975-1978)
- Mario Andretti (1976-1980)
- Rick Mears (1978-1992)
- Bobby Unser (1979-1981)
- Bill Alsup (1981)
- Kevin Cogan (1982)
- Al Unser (1983-1989)
- Johnny Rutherford (1984) (injury replacement)
- Mike Thackwell (1984) (injury replacement)
- Danny Sullivan (1985-1990)
- Geoff Brabham (1989) (replacement injury)
- Emerson Fittipaldi (1990-1996)
- Paul Tracy (1991-1994, 1996-1997)
- Al Unser, Jr. (1994-1999)
- Jan Magnussen (1996) (injury replacement)
- AndrÃÆ' Â © Ribeiro (1998)
- Alex Barron (1999, 2003; 2003 as an injury replacement)
- Gonzalo Rodriguez (1999) (killed on Laguna Seca Raceway)
- Tarso Marques (1999) (injury replacement)
- Gil de Ferran (2000-2003)
- HÃÆ'Ã… © lio Castroneves (2000-present)
- Max Papis (2002) (injury replacement)
- Sam Hornish, Jr. (2004-2007)
- Ryan Briscoe (2008-2012)
- Will Power (2009-present) (legal reimbursement, 1 race, two other races at No. 12 in 2009, full-time in 2010 afterwards)
- A. J. Allmendinger (2013)
- Juan Pablo Montoya (2014-2017)
- Simon Pagenaud (2015-present)
- Oriol Servia (2016) (injury replacement)
- Josef Newgarden (2017-present)
- Note: This excludes Greg Moore, who in mid 1999 signed a contract with Penske Racing to join the team for the 2000 season. Moore was killed in an accident at Lap 10 of Marlboro 500 at Auto Club Speedway in the last race of the 1999 season while in his final race for Forsythe Championship Racing. Castroneves, who was driving for Hogan Racing, which closed after the 1999 season, was tapped to fill the chair.
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Formerly known as Penske Racing , Kranefuss-Penske Racing , Penske Racing South , Penske-Jasper Racing , Penske Championship Racing , and now known only as Team Penske to suit other Penske teams, the NASCAR Penske team debuted in 1972 at Riverside International Raceway. Mark Donohue drove a factory-sponsored American Motors Matador red-and-white. It was nicknamed "flying bricks" by many people who recorded the aerodynamics of the box. The car finished 39 after the back problem. The team worked part-time for several years, mobilizing cars for several drivers including Donohue (winning 1973 Western 500 at Matador # 16), Dave Marcis, Donnie Allison, and Bobby Allison. The team went full-time with Bobby Allison in 1976 with a new fastback coupe, more aerodynamic, completing 4 points. In 1980, the team fielded two races for Rusty Wallace, who finished second in his first race in Atlanta. Penske sold the machine to Elliott's family in 1977 and out of NASCAR.
The team did not run for eleven years, back in 1991 with Wallace behind the wheel, with Rusty transferring Miller beer dollars to a new team from Blue Max Racing's recently suspended Raymond Beatle team. In early 2008, Roger Penske and Penske Racing won the Daytona 500 2008 with Ryan Newman, the first time Penske won the divider race race, winning by a score of 1-2.
In 2003, Penske switched from the Fords to Dodges field. However, in 2011, Penske is the only NASCAR team that runs Dodges full-time as most of the previous Dodge teams have folded or switched to other brands such as Chevrolet, Ford or Toyota. Owner Roger Penske announced on March 1, 2012 that the team will return to Ford in 2013.
In 2012, with Dodge, Brad Keselowski gave Penske his first Sprint Cup title.
For 2016 season Penske Racing South downgraded No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion to Keselowski and No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion to Joey Logano. The team also supplies cars to the historic NASCAR team, Wood Brothers Racing, which drives Penske development driver Ryan Blaney on a full-time basis.
In 2014, the team changed their brand name from "Penske Racing" to "Penske Team" to match their IndyCar names.
In 2018, the team marketed the No. Ford. 2 full-time Ford for Brad Keselowski, Ford Ford No. 1. 22 full time for Joey Logano, and Ford Ford No. 1. 12 full-time for Ryan Blaney at Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, as well as Ford Mustang No. 2. 22 full-time for part-time driver Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, and Paul Menard, and full-time Austin Cindric driver, and Ford Ford Mustang no 12 time for full-time Austin Cindric driver in NASCAR Xfinity Series. Cindric currently divides the full 2018 timetable between 22 and 12 for the Penske Team, and 60 from Roush Fenway Racing.
Car History No. 06
The No. 06 back in 2007 with Sam Hornish, Jr. in preparation for full-time moves in the next 77 years. No. 06 sponsored by Penske Truck Rental and Mobil 1 Hornish, Jr. tried eight races, but only qualified for the last two races of the season, with the 30th best finish in Phoenix.
History No. 2 Car
The history of 2 cars can be traced back to the late 1970s with M.C. Anderson and Cale Yarborough drove 27 Valvoline cars, through the 80s, team owners changed hands to Raymond Beadle and Blue Max Racing, the team took Rusty Wallace in 1986 and won the Championship in 1989. In 1990, the team was barely successful. throughout the season with the help of Roger Penske funding the team to keep going. In late 1990, the team purchased as a base for Roger's new team. During the offseason, the team changed the numbers from 27 to 2 (Rusty's old racing number) and defended Miller Miller Sponsorship.
Team No. 2 has not seen much of a change since his debut under the banner of Penske in Daytona 500 1991, where he finished 27 after the crash at the end of the race. Winston Cup Winner of 1989 Rusty Wallace drove the car from 1991 to 2005, with some form of Miller Beer as the main sponsor of No. 2. Wallace moved to Penske of Blue Max Racing, which ceased operations after 1990. The team in the first year won two race and finish 10 in points. In 1992, Wallace won one race and finished 13th. Everything then turns for him and Penske, winning 25 races over the next four years, despite never winning the championship.
The team switched from Pontiac to Ford in 1994. The end of the season at Atlanta Motor Speedway and the entire 1996 season underwent a minor change when Miller Miller's popular paint designs were replaced with red, blue and yellow splash schemes that advertised Miller's brand. After winning five races of the season, Wallace wore the blue and white colors of Miller Lite in 1997. After winning a one-piece race over the next three years, he collected four wins and won nine Buds in 2000, his biggest total. career. In 2002, he failed to win the race, marking his first year since 1985 that he did not win. After that year, the team switched from Ford to Dodge. In 2004, Wallace announced the 2005 season would be the last in the Nextel Cup series, citing his son's racing career and wants to concentrate on his Busch Series team, Rusty Wallace Racing, for departure. During the season, Wallace returned to winning tracks for the first time since 2001 in Martinsville, one of his strong historical racing tracks. Although he will not win the race during his final season, Wallace qualifies for Chase for the Nextel Cup and ends in eighth in the series points.
To replace Wallace who is retiring, Penske crammed the 2004 Nexel Cup Winner, Kurt Busch. However, this caused problems with the team at that time Busch, Roush Racing, as he was still under contract for the 2006 season. The situation was solved in part thanks to another disputed contract resolution with Roush. Roush Racing signed Jamie McMurray to drive a No. 1 car. 6 for the 2006 season but the previous team owner, Chip Ganassi, will not let him drive for Roush. Finally, a deal was made when McMurray was released from his team to replace Busch in No. car. 97 (later renumbered to 26), thus freeing Busch to drive a No. 1 car. 2. He quickly brought the team back to the winning lane with a winning start in the fifth with a team at Bristol, their only victory of 2006. 2 finished in 16th place in the points of the season. Busch won six additional races with No. car. 2, the last being Coca-Cola 600 in 2010. He qualified for Chase three times, with a fourth best finish in the final standings.
Brad Keselowski and team No. 12 moved to No. team. 2 for 2011, with National Series crew leader Paul Wolfe replacing Jay Guy. Team No. 2 with Keselowski and Wolfe initially struggling for the first half of the season, even though they won a fuel-milage race in Kansas. The team's performance began to improve dramatically after Keselowski injured his leg during an accident trial in Road Atlanta. He and Wolfe grabbed two more wins at Pocono and at Bristol and united to make the 2011 Chase field. However, the last 10 races will be an up and down affair for the team, and they were knocked out after finishing 18 in Phoenix. Nevertheless, Keselowski managed to finish fifth place in the points, a dramatic change from his performance in 2010.
2012 will be even better for the team, as Keselowski won five races at Bristol, Talladega, Kentucky, Chicagoland, and Dover, with the last two being his first Chase win. He will eventually win the first Sprint Cup Penske Cup title after a close battle with Jimmie Johnson.
2013 is a step backwards, as Keselowski opens the season with four top tall but struggles with consistency from there and ends up skipping Chase altogether. He will win a single race, in Charlotte in October, and rally to complete the fourteen points, the highest rank outside Chase (due to the Richmond scandal that resulted in Jeff Gordon getting Chase's additional place).
Keselowski recovered quickly in 2014, winning the third race of the year in Las Vegas after Dale Earnhardt, Jr ran out of gasoline in the last round. He then dominated and won Kentucky to become the first two-time winner on the track, and dominated the July race at Loudon and the September race at Richmond as well, to secure top seeds at Chase for the reformatted Sprint Cup. Keselowski then won back to back for the first time in his career at the first Chase race in Chicagoland, to secure a direct transfer to the Contender round of the new Chase. After suffering a tire that exploded in Kansas and wrestled with Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin in Charlotte, Keselowski went to Talladega who had to win to make the Eliminator round, which he finally did after beating Ryan Newman on the last lap. However, he suffered a mechanical failure that caused him to destroy at Martinsville, and was later tangled up with Jeff Gordon in Texas, which caused post-race fights to be one of the highlights of the season. Keselowski will eventually be knocked out of Chase after Phoenix, and finished fifth in the last point, with his six wins becoming career high.
Keselowski won his first race of 2015 at Auto Club Speedway after taking advantage of the last two warnings to run down the dominant car of former team mate Kurt Busch. It will prove to be the only victory of the season, but Keselowski once again advanced to Chase Eliminator before suffering another crash at Martinsville, and after leading most of the Texas race only to be authorized by Jimmie Johnson with six laps to go, Keselowski once again knocked out from the championship bout after Phoenix.
Keselowski returns to winning ways again in 2016, breaking through Las Vegas for the second time in three seasons. He also scored his third win at GEICO 500 in Talladega, then found his first Daytona win at Coke Zero 400, followed by a third win in Kentucky.
Keselowski got his first win in 2017 after Kevin Harvick had trouble at the pits at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He leads in Las Vegas when something breaks in the car with two to go. He persisted for the fifth. He remains consistent, winning the STP 500 for his first Martinsville victory. He continued consistently until the odd accident at the beginning of Coca-Cola 600, when a piece of metal from Jeffery Earnhardt stabbed Chase Elliott's toaster and got into his machine, wrapping an oil leak and fire. Brad slid the oil, right into the back of Elliott's. Keselowski will continue to make the playoffs for the sixth time in a trophy series career and scored an extra victory in an accident that plagued the Alabama 500 at Talladega Superspeedway and had the dominant car at Martinsville before the late race warning and contact with Chase Elliott took him out of contention to win and he will finish the 4th. Keselowski made the final lap at Homestead-Miami speedway finished 7th in the race and 4th in the final standings for champion Martin Truex Jr.
History No. 12 Cars
12 cars now start in 1994 in Michigan as the No. Ford. 07 driven by Robby Gordon and owned by German-American businessman and former Ford executive Michael Kranefuss along with Newman/Haas Racing co-principal Carl Haas. The car started and finished 38 after Gordon fell on lap 70. After starting again with Geoff Brabham in the Brickyard 400, the team - known as Kranefuss-Haas Racing - went full-time in 1995 with John Andretti driving the No-Sponsored Kmart/Little Caesars. 37 Ford. Andretti won the pole at Mountain Dew Southern 500 and finished 18th. The team struggled in 1996 and Kranefuss decided to replace Andretti with Jeremy Mayfield in exchange for drivers between Kranefuss-Haas and Cale Yarborough's team when Andretti replaced Mayfield at Yarborough. 98. The team took the co-sponsorship of the Royal Crown Cola for the following season and was upgraded to 13 points in 1997, but it is clear the team will not succeed if only fielded one team. At the end of the season, Kranefuss and Haas disperse partnerships and sponsors Kmart's move to Travis Carter's team, which became Haas-Carter Motorsports and sponsor Little Caesars leaving the team.
In 1998, Kranefuss and Penske Racing announced the merger, with Mayfield coming to drive a Ford Taurus. 12 Mobil 1 being sponsored as a team mate for Rusty Wallace. The move was a success, and Mayfield became the next big star. He won a pole in Texas, and at one point in this season, found himself in the lead points. At Pocono 500 in June, he won his first NASCAR Cup Series race. The year of the Mayfield breakout ended with a finish in 7th place in points. Mayfield struggled in 1999, as he did not win and dropped 4 points on points. In 2000, he won the Pocono 500 and California 500. Mid-season, Kranefuss sold his share of the team to Penske. Mayfield then suffered a concussion while practicing for the Brickyard 400. He missed two races that recovered from his injury and completed 24 points. In 2001, Mayfield posted seven top ten finishes, but was fired after the race in Kansas. Rusty Wallace's little brother, Mike Wallace, took over, and almost won at Phoenix before taking second place Jeff Burton.
Ryan Newman and his Alltel Wireless team took over the No. 1 car. 12 in 2002, although Mobil 1 remains the main sponsor for several races per season. In his rookie year, Newman waged a vigorous battle with Jimmie Johnson for the NASCAR Rookie of the Year award. Newman won The Winston, and the autumn events in New Hampshire, as well as six poles. Though he did not win many races like Johnson (one against Johnson three) and finished behind him on points (sixth place, seven points behind fifth place Johnson), he finished ahead of Johnson to win the Winston Cup Rookie of the Year. After switching to Dodge in 2003, he won eight races and eleven pole, and finished in 6th place.
In 2004, Newman won twice, grabbed nine pole positions, qualified for Chase for the Nextel Cup, and finished seventh in the points. Newman finished 2005 with eight pole positions, but only one victory. He qualified for Chase for the Cup for the second year in a row and finished sixth in the final standings. He failed to win the race and missed Chase in 2006 and 2007. However, he found himself back in the winning circle in early 2008, grabbing a win in the Daytona 500 500 run (No. 2 from Kurt Busch finished second) to open the season, claiming the first win Daytona 500 Penske. After the No. team. 12 won the Daytona 500 in 2008, he fought and Ryan Newman announced during the summer that he would go for a Chevrolet No. No. 39 for Stewart-Haas Racing.
No. Car. 12 lost its sponsorship in 2009 because Cellco Partners, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone, sealed a deal to buy Alltel in January 2009, thereby canceling the terms of the grandfather clause that allowed the No. 1 car. 12 to run with sponsors who are direct competitors to the NASCAR series sponsor. The team announced that they will transfer the Wireless sponsorship to the IndyCar Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series and rename the team to Verizon Championship Racing , a reference to Verizon Wireless's Penske Wireless marketing through IndyCar and NASCAR Sponsors, complete with legacy champions (especially on Vodafone's side, as this is a Scuderia Ferrari sponsor). Penske hired David Stremme to drive the car in a largely unbranded fashion for 2009, but he was fruitless and fired towards the end of the season. Brad Keselowski, who recently signed a contract with Penske when he could not get a seat at Hendrick Motorsports, took over the car towards the end of the 2009 season. He then run No 12 full-time in 2010 again unbranded, even though FloTV and AAA sponsored several races. Keselowski moved to No. car. 2 after the season to replace Kurt Busch, who moved into No. 22 new ones.
The No. 12 did not run the race in 2011. In 2012, Sam Hornish, Jr. drive no. 12 in Kansas in April with SKF sponsors. The No. 12 is also scheduled to run on the Talladega race in October with Hornish, but after the termination of A. J. Allmendinger of No. 1. 22, Hornish replaced him full-time. SKF Hornish sponsor moved to No. 22 for this race.
In 2013, Hornish qualified again in Kansas, but fell out of the race in a multi-car crash. He tried to fall the Talladega race, but failed to make the race after qualifying rained out.
With Hornish leaving for Joe Gibbs Racing, part-time No. 12 divided by various Penske drivers in 2014. SKF sponsors three races, with Ryan Blaney in Kansas in April and Talladega in October, and Juan Pablo Montoya in Michigan in June. Montoya also rode No. 12 at Brickyard 400 with sponsorship of Penske Truck Rental.
In June 2017, Penske implies that Ryan Blaney will soon drive a third Ford for Penske Racing, implying that Blaney may be driving a Ford No. 1. 12. This was later confirmed a month later when they announced that Blaney would drive the No. 1 car. 12 in 2018, with Paul Menard replacing him in 21 Wood Brothers Racing car, resuming technical alliances owned by both teams.
History No. 22 Car
Team No. 22 owned by Penske began operations at ARCA RE/MAX Series in 2000 as the No. Ford. 27 sponsored by Alltel and driven by Ryan Newman. Later that year, the team made its NASCAR Cup Series debut with Newman in Phoenix as No 02 Alltel Ford, finishing 41 due to engine failure. In 2001, Newman divided the time between ARCA, NASCAR Busch Series, and NASCAR Cup Series. He drove 15 Busch races and won in Michigan. In the Cup Series, he participated in seven events, and almost won The Winston Open before his machine ended on the final lap. He collected two top-five finishes, which included finishing second place in Kansas, and a pole on his short schedule.
in 2004 after Penske joined Jasper Motorsports. Brendan Gaughan was hired as a driver and the car was numbered 77, sponsoring Kodak. Gaughan has four top-ten finishes and finishes 28 points in his rookie year. Gaughan was fired for lack of performance at the end of the season.
Gaughan was soon replaced by Travis Kvapil in 2005. Kodak continued to sponsor the team, even though Mobil 1 came to sponsor one race. Kvapil has two top points and finished in 33rd position. Team No. 77 was closed for the next two years due to lack of sponsorship.
In late 2007, Penske Racing announced that the No. team. 77 will return to race with Mobil 1 as a sponsor and Sam Hornish, Jr., one of IndyCar Penske series drivers will switch to NASCAR on a full-time basis and drive a car in 2008.
The team has exchanged points with No. car. 2 belongs to Kurt Busch to guarantee Hornish to be one of the first five races, while allowing Busch to escape automatically if necessary with his past from Past Champion's Provisional.
The team did the same in 2009 when Bill Davis (formerly of Bill Davis Racing) sold owner points from Toyota No. 2. 22 to Penske, which guarantees Hornish a place in the first five races of the season. The performance of the Hornish has increased considerably in this year. 77 ended the year in the top 35 at owner points.
With the departure of Mobil 1 to Stewart Haas Racing for the 2011 season, Shell and Pennzoil came to Penske and sponsored the number 22 Cup car that had just been numbered back in 2011 with Kurt Busch (who previously led the No. 2 team). No. 22 shared a Shell sponsorship with Penske's IndyCar driver, HÃÆ'Â © lio Castroneves. The team won two races in Sonoma and Dover and made Chase, but a bad ending as long as Chase left Busch 11 in points. Busch and Penske Racing agreed to split on December 5, 2011. despite strong speculation that he was fired for an incident involving reporter Jerry Punch who was caught in an amateur video.
On December 21, 2011, A. J. Allmendinger was announced as the driver for the 2012 season, moving from Richard Petty Motorsports. He will team up with newly-promoted head crew Todd Gordon after the departure of Steve Addington to Stewart-Haas Racing. Allmendinger started off with a slow start of the season, but took advantage of a final crash among leaders to finish second at Martinsville. After he failed a drug test before the Daytona July race, he was expelled from the car. Driver series Penske Nationwide Sam Hornish, Jr. crowned in lieu of the rest of the season. Hornish was challenged to win at Watkins Glen, and finished fifth. After failing to record the top-10 finish, Penske releases it from the car at the end of the season.
On September 4, 2012, Joey Logano was announced as a substitute for Hornish in the No. 1 car. 22 in 2013. Logano became the fourth rider of No. 22 in three years, but has a successful 2013 season, making Chase, and back in 2014, becoming the first rider to return to No. 1 car. 22 for more than a season. Logano won five races in 2014, two more than in all his previous career, and made a revamped Championship of Chase, only to suffer a pit fault at Homestead which degraded him to fourth in the standings.
Logano then started the 2015 season by winning the Daytona 500. He then won five more races, including a repeat of victory at Bristol Night Race and the Kansas Chase race, part of three consecutive wins that allowed him to sweep The Contender. Chase's 2015 round. However, a feud with Matt Kenseth thwarted the Logano season when Kenseth smashed him from the leadership at Martinsville; The heavy damage caused by tires blown next week in Texas and his failure to win in Phoenix resulted in the elimination of Logano from Chase.
2016 season Logano sees him making all his way back to Homestead, this time with three wins (Michigan, Talladega, Phoenix) with a shot to win the title. Logano was able to pass a late race incident with Carl Edwards and finish second in the standings behind Jimmie Johnson.
Xfinity Series
Penske's first entry in the Xfinity Series is now in 1997, with Rusty Wallace's Cup rider at Auto Club Speedway. Wallace started 37 and finished 21 at his Miller Lite Ford.
History No. 02/39/48 Car
Next Penske Racing into the Busch Series was in 2001. Ryan Newman drove 15 races at Alltel Ford 02 in preparation for moving to the next NASCAR Cup Series. "Rocket Man" Newman has 6 poles and only two that start outside the top 5. Newman has 8 top 10 including victories at Michigan International Speedway, and will finish 28 points despite running less than half a season.
In 2005, Penske returned to the second tier series with Ryan Newman. Newman drove the Alltel/Car 1/Sony Dodge numbered 39, his sprint car number which just happened to add up to the number 12 used in the Series Cup. He only ran 9 of 25 races, but had four poles and six wins. In 2006, Newman and Kurt Busch shared the journey. Busch ran seven races and won twice; Newman's best end is 2 of 6 starts. IndyCar champion Sam Hornish, Jr. began racing No. 39 in the last two races of the year, crashing out of both races. Newman also runs a 02 car at Watkins Glen, finishing 41 after a machine failure.
The only race for 39 in 2007 was at Watkins Glen International, where Kurt Busch started in pole and finished third.
In 2013, Penske manages the third team on a part-time basis, amounting to 48. Joey Logano runs the car at Watkins Glen with Discount Tire as a sponsor, starting on the 3rd and finishing 21. Ryan Blaney then runs the car in Phoenix with AutoZone, completing 10. Brad Keselowski run the car at Homestead with Discount Tire, win the race.
History No. 12 Cars
Car 12 debuted in 2007, running 20 total races. Kurt Busch ran 3 races with Penske Truck Rental, with the best finish of the 4th in Las Vegas. Sam Hornish Jr. running 9 races but no top 10 and four crashes. Ryan Newman ran eight races with Kodak and Alltel, with a 3rd best finish at Richmond.
The team resumed limited returns in 2008, with Hornish riding most of the races early in the season. Hornish tried 10 races (failed to qualify for two) with fewer DNF and best finish of 11th in Darlington. ARCA champion Justin Allgaier ran four races at the end of the year, finishing in 11th place in Phoenix.
In 2009, Justin Allgaier moved to full-time car. After Verizon, taking the sponsorship responsibility of Alltel, is prohibited from sponsoring the No Cup car. 12 under the terms of the Viceroy Rule - preventing competition with title sponsors Sprint NEXTEL - the company transferred their sponsors to the Nationwide Series. Allgaier was involved in a rookie bout close to Michael McDowell and Scott Lagasse Jr., but eventually won the Rookie of the Year 2009, scoring 12 top 10 on his way to 6th place. Allgaier and Verizon return for 2010. Justin won his first career victory in the fourth race of the season at Bristol Motor Speedway. The team has an impressive 20 top 10 and ranks 4th in points.
Due to Verizon's departure from NASCAR for IndyCar Penske's team, the team No. 12 returned to a limited schedule in 2011, which prompted Allgaier to move to Turner Motorsports. Sam Hornish Jr., recently lost his ride with Penske, took over the car on a limited basis with Alliance Truck Parts sponsoring his business. Hornish won his first Nationwide Series race in Phoenix, a track on which he succeeded in IndyCar. Alex Tagliani was driving No. 1. 12 in Montreal with a sponsor from Hot Wheels.
Hornish returns for full season in 2012, with extended sponsorship from Alliance Truck Parts. Hornish is arguably the strongest season in stock cars to date after the fight in the Sprint Cup and previous Nationwide efforts, scoring 10 top 5 and 22 top 10 on the way to fourth place finish points.
Hornish returned to the car in 2013, and scored a second NASCAR win in Las Vegas. He was a strong contender for the title race, earning 4 poles, 16 top 5 and 25 top 10, but eventually finishing second to Austin Dillon in the final points standings, though Dillon did not win the race. Hornish was left without a full-time journey, as long-time owner Roger Penske had no chance of a former champion, although he said Hornish deserved another chance at the top level of NASCAR. Parts Truck Alliance sponsors, WURTH, and Detroit Genuine Parts will ride to sponsor Sprint Cup's Brad Keselowski car in 2014.
In 2014, after Hornish departs for Joe Gibbs Racing, the Penske Team narrows their National Series fleet into a full-time journey - no team. 22through No. 12 as a part-time trip. Ryan Blaney ran four races in the car, with Joey Logano running a single race at Watkins Glen, with sponsorship of Snap-on Tools and Western Star Trucks. Logano will win the pole with a new track record, and continue to win the race.
By 2016, Ryan Blaney drove No. 1. May 12th at Charlotte and again in July in Kentucky. Joey Logano then drove No. 12 at Watkins Glen in August and once again in Charlotte in October, winning both races. Snap-On Tools is the main sponsor for all races except the October Charlotte race, where PPG Industries is the main sponsor.
On August 12, 2016, Tim Penske announced that No. 12 will return to full-time competition. However, after the sponsorship failed to materialize, the car will be issued on a limited basis. Logano and Blaney will drive the car during the first half of the season, with Logano winning in Las Vegas and Blaney winning the Charlotte summer race.
History No. 22 Car
In 2009, development driver Penskei Parker Kligerman made his debut at Kansas Speedway, won the pole, led 7 laps, and completed the 16th. Parker also tried to finish the season at Homestead, but failed to qualify, running the No. 1 car. 42 instead.
For 2010, Penske Racing runs two full-time Nationwide series cars with Discount Tire and Ruby Tuesday coming to sponsor Brad Keselowski at No. 1. 22. They continue to use the Dodge engine, though Dodge cut their Nationwide support. On November 6, 2010, Brad Keselowski and team No. 22 Tire Discount/Ruby Tuesday Nationwide secures the NASCAR Nationwide driver championship by finishing 3rd at Texas Motor Speedway. Holding an unrivaled 465-point lead over Carl Edwards with two races remaining in the season, the No. team. 22 delivered the first NASCAR title of Roger Penske in any form.
For the 2011 season, Penske continues to run no. 22 full time with Brad Keselowski. In August, Keselowski crashed during a test at Road Atlanta. He was replaced at No. 22 by Hornish Jr., Kurt Busch, and Parker Kligerman. Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve driving a No. 1 car. 22 on the pavement. Team No. 22 scored five wins with Keselowski and the other with Busch at Watkins Glen.
In 2012, Keselowski is scheduled to split 22 trips, with Parker Kligerman running between 5 and 7 races. However, after only running three races with the team, Kligerman was replaced in the Nationwide Series and the World Series Truck Camping trip at BKR alongside other racer Ryan Blaney, who ran in a stand-alone oval race. Villeneuve was named for driving on Road America and Montreal for the team.
In 2013, Brad Keselowski and Ryan Blaney are scheduled to share No. 22, joining new driver Penske Joey Logano. In June, former Penske Cup driver A. J. Allmendinger signed a contract to run two races in 22 places, on Road America and Mid-Ohio roadmaps. Allmendinger won a pole at Road America, then went on to win the race, his first career winning Nationwide, having a 29 lap lead. The Allmendinger then won in Mid-Ohio after starting second and leading 73 of 94 rounds. Ryan Blaney then won his first career race at Kentucky Speedway, having led 96 of the last 100 rounds of the race. The team won the National Ownership Championship 'on a total of twelve total race powers among four drivers. This is the first Nationwide Owner title for the Penske Team.
In 2014, the No. 1 car. 22 divided by Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski, Ryan Blaney and Alex Tagliani in hopes of defending the National Ownership Championship. Michael McDowell runs a car in Kentucky in September, the fifth driver to run the car in 2014. 22 beat team No. 54 JGR once again to get the title of owner. They again beat the No. team. 54 for the title of owner in 2015, before going without a win in 2016. By 2017 Brad Keselowski brings 22 back to winning track at Pocono after the last lap on Kyle Larson. Team No. 22 known for his rivalry for the National Ownership Championship with an equally strong Joe Gibbs Racing as well as the No team. 18 and No. 20 of them.
History No. 26 Car
In an alliance with K-Automotive Racing (owned by Brad Keselowski's brother Brian), Penske dropped 26 cars in selected races in 2010, especially Car of Tomorrow racing. The nineteen-year-old Parker Kligerman debuted in Daytona with Discount Tire, starting from the outside pole and finishing 13th. The next race was Montreal, where he scored a strong 8th goal. He then finished 15th in Richmond. In Charlotte in October, Kligerman escaped the eighth, but fell after just 3 laps and ended last. Sam Hornish Jr. run the season finale in 26, finishing 21st.
Sports car racing
Trans-Am Series
The first Penske fielded the Sunoco 1967 Chevrolet Camaro blue driven by Mark Donohue in this series which is designed for Pony cars like the Ford Mustang. Penske entered the Camaros won the series championships in 1968 and 1969. Then they switched to red/white/blue American Motors supported 1970 AMC Javelin, and then AMQ's stretched 1971 AMC Javelin AMX which features aerodynamic tail spoiler and other features suggested by Donohue. American Motors won over 2.5 liter titles in 1971, after Penske withdrew from the championship. Penske Racing also has an alliance with the Trans-Am pioneer team, Jocko Racing who won the 1976 Trans-Am Series championship in a car rented by Penske.
Can-Am Series
Penske Racing entered the Lola T70 in the 1966 Can-Am Series for Mark Donohue, yielding one victory at Mosport. In 1967, Penske Racing entered two Lolas, one for Mark Donohue and one for George Follmer. 1968 saw Penske switch to McLaren M6, who had won the series in 1967. Donohue won one race that year at Can-Am in Bridgehampton. With the dominance of McLaren from Can-Am, Penske switched back to Lola Cars for his 1969 Can-Am effort, but only entered the car in a race in Mid-Ohio.
From 1972 to 1974, Penske was Porsche's official partner in the CanAm Series. In late 1971, Penske and Mark Donohue helped develop a tubocharged version of Porsche 917. George Follmer won the series in 1972, and Donohue dominated the CanAm in 1973 with the final evolution of 917, 917/30. The rule was changed for 1974, and Penske only once this year.
Endurance race
A Lola T70 Mk IIIb entered by Penske was the surprise winner of the 1969 24 Hours of Daytona.
During the 1970s, the competition between the 5-liter sportscars Porsche and Ferrari turned into a Porsche 917 advantage. In 1971, Ferrari decided to stop all official attempts with a 512 liter 512 Ferrari. To prepare for the 1972 Season, a prototype of the new Ferrari 312PB work was presented and included by the factory in several races.
Roger Penske bought a used 512 M chassis that was completely dismantled and rebuilt. This car is specifically tuned for long races that receive many unique features, among them a large rear wing and fast flight inspired fuel system. The engine is tuned by a CanAm V8 specialist, Traco, and may be capable of producing more than 600 hp (450 kW). To this day it is not known to what extent the initiative of Penske is supported by Ferrari. The 512M is painted in blue and yellow and is sponsored by Sunoco and California Ferrari dealer Kirk F. White. The car made a front position for Daytona 24 hours 24 hours and finished second despite an accident. For 12 hours Sebring, "Sunoco" made the pole again but finished the race in sixth position after making contact with Pedro Rodrigez 917. Although unfortunately this car proved to be a serious contender for 917. Not only is this car the fastest on the Daytona and Sebring lines but also cars that have the shortest refueling time.
The presence of "Sunoco" 512 M forced Porsche to pursue its research and development efforts in 917: Short tail 917K modified, and 917 LH aerodynamics received further improvement. Newly developed Magnesium Chassis. An entirely new car, the 917/20 was built as a test-bed for future CanAm parts and an aerodynamic "low-drag" concept.
At Le Mans, the "Sunoco" Ferrari is unable to break the 200 mph (320 km/h) barrier on a straight road, while the Porsche 917 LH is lightning fast at speeds of over 240 mph (380 km/h). Mark Donohue qualified for fourth, a clear result of a preferred aerodynamic configuration of downforce over drag, which helped in the twistier section. The car did not have much luck in the race though.
American Le Mans Series
In April 2005, it was announced that Porsche would build the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) approved the LMP2 Class Prototype to be incorporated by Penske Racing in the American Le Mans Series. Porsche RS Spyder made his successful debut in the ALMS season's final race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Porsche Junior's "Porsche Junior" factory drivers Sascha Maassen and Lucas Luhr completed 1st in the LMP2 Class and 5th overall in the 4 Hour Endurance Competition. The livery of Penske Racing American Le Mans Series team was inspired by DHL EJ12 DHL Formula 1 livery driven by Giancarlo Fisichella and Takuma Sato.
In 2006, Penske Motorsports downed two LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder in American Le Mans Series, but did not run the Le Mans 24 Hours 2006 in June. Penske cars combined to win seven class wins and an overall win at Mid-Ohio. Penske Racing won the LMP2 team championship. Sascha Maassen and Lucas Luhr were tied for first place in the drivers' championship, while Timo Bernhard finished fifth, Romain Dumas finished sixth, and Emmanuel Collard finished tenth.
Team lineup 2006:
- LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder No. 6: Sascha Maassen, Lucas Luhr (with Emmanuel Collard for endurance show)
- LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder No. 7: Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas (with Patrick Long for endurance show)
In 2007, Penske Motorsports downed two LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder Evo in American Le Mans Series. Penske Motorsports for the second year in a row did not compete in the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. Two Penske cars were combined for eleven class wins and eight overall wins during the twelve races season. Penske won the LMP2 team championship, and the team drivers Romain Dumas and Timo Bernhard finished tied for first in the LMP2 driver's championship, while Sascha Maassen and Ryan Briscoe tied for third place.
Team lineup 2007:
- LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder No. 6: Sascha Maassen, Ryan Briscoe (with Emmanuel Collard for the endurance show)
- LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder No. 7: Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas (with HÃÆ'Ã… © lio Castroneves (Sebring only) and Patrick Long (Street Atlanta only) for endurance events)
Penske started their 2008 season with a total win in 12 Hours of Sebring. It was Porsche's first overall win in the race since 1988 at Porsche 962.
Team lineup 2008:
- LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder No. 5: HÃÆ'Ã… © lio Castroneves, Ryan Briscoe (Atlanta Road and Laguna Seca only)
- LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder No. 6: Sascha Maassen, Patrick Long
- LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder No. 7: Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas (with Emmanuel Collard for the endurance show)
In 2009, the team No. 6 and No. 7 ALMS is used for Penske's No. 12 Indycar, powered by Will Power in five races. The team announced at the end of 2009 that the ALMS teams would be disbanded and transformed into the new No. 12 Verizon sponsored Indycar for Will Power to run full-time in 2010.
IMSA
In 2017, it was announced that Penske Racing will make a comeback to the sportscar racing at IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the 2018 season. They will run 2 Acura ARX-05 DPis in the prototype class (P). They raced last race in 2017, Petit Le Mans used Oreca 07 LMP2 that Acura DPi was based, putting third.
2018 line-up:
- No. 6 Acura ARX-05: Juan Pablo Montoya, Dane Cameron (full season), Simon Pagenaud (endurance)
- no. 7 Acura ARX-05: HÃÆ'Â © lio Castroneves, Ricky Taylor (full season), Graham Rahal (endurance)
Formula One
Penske entered the Formula One World Championship from 1974 to 1976. Although the cars were built at the British base in Poole, the team holds an American license. In 1971, Penske had sponsored a second McLaren entry at the 1971 Canadian and US GPs, entering Mark Donohue, who took the car to the podium. The team returned three years later, at the 1974 Canadian GP, ​​with their own chassis, PC1, a standard tub built around the Cosworth DFV engine and the Hewland gearbox. Donohue took the car to 12th position on his debut. In 1975, Roger Penske carried out a full season attack with PC1, Donohue scored the fifth place in the Swedish Grand Prix. However, the car was retired after the French GP and Penske entered 751 March for the next three races, scoring another fifth in the British GP. However, Donohue crashed the car in the final training session of the 1975 Austrian Grand Prix at Zeltweg and subsequently died of his injuries. Penske missed the Italian race, returning just for the US GP, leaving in March 751 supporting PC1 with Northern Ireland rider John Watson.
For 1976, Penske signed a sponsorship deal with Citibank and incorporated a new PC3 for Watson. Apart from the fifth place printed in South Africa's Grand Prix in Kyalami, PC3 evolved into PC4, which was far more competitive, allowing Watson to score two podiums in France and England. Then, in the Austrian Grand Prix, the team scored their only F1 victory, "forcing" John Watson to shave his beard. So far it has been the last time an American constructor won the F1 race. However, Roger Penske was exhausted with Europe and at the end of the year decided to concentrate solely on Indycar racing, selling the remnants of his European operation to GÃÆ'¼nther Schmidt of Germany.
For 1977, the car was entered by Schmidt's ATS Wheels business and run under the name ATS Racing Team. The ATS-Penske PC4, now painted yellow, debuted at the 1977 US Western Grand Prix with Jean-Pierre Jarier behind the wheel, where France scored a team's single points this season. The second PC4 was finally included for Hans Heyer and Hans Binder but the team's luck drowned and Schmidt quit after the Italian GP, ​​before returning in 1978 with his own chassis. The third PC4 was built by Penske for Interscope Racing, which entered the car in the United States and the Canadian Grand Prix, which was driven by American Danny Ongais with no results.
In 1979, Penske designed and built HR100 for Mexican wealthy driver, HÃÆ' Â © ctor Rebaque. The car was included for the last three races of the season, but failed to qualify or finish in any case.
Supercar Championships
In 2015, Tim Penske enters the Australian Supercar V8 Championship, having bought a 51% stake in Dick Johnson Racing in September 2014. The team is known as the DJR Penske Team. The team drove a single Ford Falcon FG X in 2015, initially with Marcos Ambrose driving the No. 1 car. 17 and Scott Pye as joint drivers at the Endurance Cup. After the Australian Grand Prix support race, Ambrose was asked to get out of the driving to let Scott Pye become the main rider of Round 2 at Symmons Plains. Ambrose later became the co-driver of endurance in the Endurance Cup.
In October 2015, DJR Team Penske announced to return to a two-car team in 2016 with Fabian Coulthard to drive a No. 1 car. 12 and Scott Pye in No. car. 17. Roger Penske later asserted that Ambrose chose not to continue as a co-worker. drivers by 2016.
For the 2017 season, Scott McLaughlin joined the team and became the new rider for the Ford Falcon FG X Supercar No. 1. 17. Penske DJR team won the 2017 Team Championship at the Australian Virgin Supercars Championship.
Indianapolis 500 statistics
Penske Racing has the most victory at the Indianapolis 500 from any team in the history of racing cars with 17 wins. In 1972, Penske driver Gary Bettenhausen led the most lap but lost the engine with 24 laps to go. Team mate Mark Donohue led a fading lap on the way to Indianapolis's first 50 Penskeu triumph. In 1979, Penske driver Bobby Unser led the most rounds of the Indianapolis 500 while teammate Rick Mears won the race, from pole.
Subsequent Victory 500 Penskeu is one of the most controversial settlements in IndyCar history. Penske Unser driver won pole position and led most of the last 100 rounds. On lap 140, Bobby Unser and former Penske driver Mario Andretti out of the pit. Unser passes 11 cars under a yellow flag while Andretti passes 2 cars. Unser won the race, but was stripped of victory the next morning in support of Andretti. After a lengthy appeal, Unser regained his victory and was instead fined $ 40,000 ($ 104,000 in cash today). Unser retired from the race after the season ended in autumn controversy.
Penske's next Indy 500 victory was with Rick Mears in 1984. Mears and former Penske driver Tom Sneva struggled to take the lead in the last 100 rounds, but after Sneva broke up with CV joints, Mears led the last 40 unbeaten runs to win 2 -lap front of the field. The following year, first-time Penske driver Danny Sullivan led the final 61 laps on the way to his first win at the Indianapolis 500 after winning a 4-lap penalty shootout with Mario Andretti. In 1987, Penske driver Danny Ongais was sent off for injury and former driver Penske Al Unser was hit as a temporary replacement. Unser won the race.
1988 is one of the most dominating performances by Penske Racing in the history of the Indianapolis 500. Penske team members Sullivan, Unser and Mears are qualified in the front row and continue to lead 192 of 200 race bales, 91 by Sullivan, 89 by Mears, and 12 by Unser. Mears won the race. In 1991, Mears won a 18-lap duel with Michael Andretti to win the Indianapolis Indianapolis 4th. Emerson Fittipaldi won 500 in 1993 but angered American fans by drinking orange juice instead of traditional milk.
In 1994, the Penske team, consisting of Al Unser Jr., Paul Tracy and Emerson Fittipaldi led 193 of 200 bal racing, thanks to a new engine invented by Penske that climbed up to 1,000 horsepower. The machine was then banned, resulting in Penske Racing not qualifying a car at the 1995 Indianapolis 500.
Due to an open-wheel split, Penske did not drive down the Indianapolis 500 from 1996-2000. In 2001, Penske Racing crossed the picket line by lowering the team in the 500, which consisted of rookie HÃÆ'Ã… © lio Castroneves and Gil de Ferran. The duo went on to lead the most laps, en route to victory, giving Penske Racing a 1-2 result, the first time in team history. In a post-race interview, Roger Penske said that after a heartbreak in 1995, the victory was the biggest of all his victories in the Indy 500.
In 2002, Castroneves almost beat Paul Tracy to win the second Indy 500 in a row. The controversy overshadowed the race when a videotape showed Tracy was in front of Castroneves on the final lap time of the lap. After a lengthy appeal, Castroneves' victory was upheld on 2 July. In 2003, Gil de Ferran won his first 500 and then retired when the season ended. Penske Racing has since won 500 in 2006, 2009, 2015, and 2018.
Penske Racing Museum
Opened in 2002, the Penske Racing Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona, is located within the complex of Penske Automotive Group car dealerships in Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection. This two-story, 9,000-square-foot (840 m 2 ) museum has about 20 historically significant Penske Racing cars, along with trophies, works of art, machinery and other memorabilia derived from the origins of Penske The earliest racing to date. The displays are played regularly, but the museum focuses primarily on the success of the team at Indy 500 and NASCAR, with a lower emphasis on F1 and sports car racing.
Race Results
USAC Car Championship Results
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Complete PPG CART Indycar World Series/CART FedEx Championship Series Results
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- 1 Firestone Firehawk 600 was canceled after qualifying due to excessive g-force on the driver.
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Full Formula One World Championship Results
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