Team Penske

Penske *as a Formula One chassis constructor*
Base	Poole, United Kingdom
Founder(s)	Roger Penske
Formula One World Championship career
Engines	Ford
Entrants	Penske, F&S Properties, ATS, Interscope Racing
First entry	1974 Canadian Grand Prix
Last entry	1977 Canadian Grand Prix
Races entered	41
Race victories	1
Constructors' Championships	0
Drivers'; Championships	0
Points	23
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0

Team Penske
Founded	1965
Team principal(s)	Roger Penske (founder); Tim Cindric (President)
Current series	FIA World Endurance Championship, IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship
Former series	Rolex Sports Car Series, United States Road Racing Championship, Can-Am, Trans-Am series, American Le Mans Series, WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
Current drivers	Dane Cameron; Emmanuel Collard; Felipe Nasr
Drivers'; Championships	7 ('06, '07, '08 ALMS, '72, '73 Can-Am, '67, '68 USRRC)

Team Penske
Owner(s)	Roger Penske (Penske Corporation)
Principal(s)	Tim Cindric
Base	Mooresville, North Carolina
Series	IndyCar Series; NASCAR Cup Series; IMSA SportsCar Championship; FIA World Endurance Championship
Race drivers	IndyCar Series:; 2. Josef Newgarden; 3. Scott McLaughlin; 12. Will Power ; Cup Series:; 2. Austin Cindric; 12. Ryan Blaney; 22. Joey Logano; WeatherTech SportsCar Championship:; 6. Kévin Estre; Mathieu Jaminet; Nick Tandy; Laurens Vanthoor; 7. Dane Cameron; Matt Campbell; Felipe Nasr; Josef Newgarden; FIA World Endurance Championship:; 5. Matt Campbell; Michael Christensen; Frédéric Makowiecki; 6. Kévin Estre; André Lotterer; Laurens Vanthoor
Sponsors	IndyCar Series:; 2. PPG, Hitachi, Snap-On, Shell, Astemo, Tire Rack; 3. DEX Imaging, XPEL, Odyssey Battery, Good Ranchers, Sonsio, Pennzoil, Gallagher Insurance, Freightliner Trucks; 12. Verizon ; Cup Series:; 2. Discount Tire, Menards (Knauf Insulation, Duracell, Libman, Richmond Water Heaters, Quaker State, Moen, Tarkett, Monster Energy, Sylvania, Cardell), Snap-On, Freightliner Trucks, AutoTrader.com, Keystone Light; 12. Menards (Peak, Pennzoil, Dutch Boy Paint, Jack Links, Duracell, Knauf Insulation, Cardell, Maytag, Richmond Water Heaters, Moen, Ideal Door, Atlas Roofing, Great Stuff), Bodyarmor, Advance Auto Parts, Wabash National, Würth, Dent Wizard, Discount Tire; 22. Shell Pennzoil, Hunt Brothers Pizza, AAA, AutoTrader.com; WeatherTech SportsCar Championship:; 6. Porsche; 7. Porsche; FIA World Endurance Championship:; 5. Porsche; 6. Porsche
Manufacturer	IndyCar: Chevrolet; NASCAR: Ford; WeatherTech SportsCar Championship: Porsche; FIA World Endurance Championship: Porsche
Career
Debut	IndyCar Series:; 1968 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis); Cup Series:; 1972 Winston Western 500 (Riverside); Xfinity Series:; 1997 Kenwood Home & Car Audio 300 (Fontana); Craftsman Truck Series:; 1996 Craftsman 200 (Portland); ARCA Racing Series:; 2000 Flagstar 200 (Michigan)
Latest race	IndyCar Series:; 2024 Music City Grand Prix ; (Nashville Superspeedway) Cup Series:; 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race (Phoenix) Xfinity Series:; 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race (Phoenix); Craftsman Truck Series:; 1996 GM Goodwrench/AC Delco 300 (Phoenix); ARCA Racing Series:; 2016 AnywhereIsPossible 200 (Pocono)
Drivers' Championships	Total: 42; USAC: 9; IndyCar Series: 6; CART: 9; Cup Series: 5; Xfinity Series: 2; IMSA (DPi): 2; WEC (Hypercar): 1; ALMS (LMP2): 3; VASC: 3; Can-Am: 2; USRRC: 2
Indy 500 victories	20 (1972, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024
Race victories	IndyCar Series: 243; Cup Series: 149; Xfinity Series: 81
Pole positions	IndyCar Series: 302[citation needed]; Cup Series: 141[citation needed]; Xfinity Series: 74[citation needed]

Team Penske (formerly Penske Racing) is an American professional auto racing organization, competing in the IndyCar Series, NASCAR Cup Series, IMSA SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship. Debuting at the 1966 24 Hours of Daytona,^[1] the organization has also competed in various other types of professional racing such as Formula One, Can-Am, Trans Am, and Australia's Supercars Championship. Altogether, Team Penske has earned over 500 victories and over 40 championships in all of auto racing.^[2] Team Penske is a division of Penske Corporation, and is owned and chaired by Roger Penske. The team president is Tim Cindric.

IndyCar Series

Team Penske currently fields three cars: the No. 2 Hitachi Dallara/Chevrolet for Josef Newgarden, the No. 3 Dallara/Chevrolet driven by Scott McLaughlin, and the No. 12 Verizon Dallara/Chevrolet driven by Will Power. Notable past drivers include 4-time Indianapolis 500 winners Al Unser, Rick Mears, and Helio Castroneves. At the 2024 race, Team Penske won the Indy 500 for a record 20th time.^[3] The team has won the series championship 16 times.^[4]

The open-wheel racing portion of Penske Racing had been based in Reading, Pennsylvania since 1973 with the cars, during the Formula One and CART era, being constructed in Poole, Dorset, England, which was also the base for the F1 team.^[5]^[6] On October 31, 2005, Penske Racing announced after the 2006 IRL season, they would consolidate IRL and NASCAR operations at the team's Mooresville North Carolina facility;^[7] with the flooding in Pennsylvania in 2006, the team's operations were moved to Mooresville earlier than expected.

IndyCar history

Early days

Roger Penske has been involved with IndyCar racing since 1968, when his team first fielded a stock block-powered Eagle with Mark Donohue. The organization first competed at Indianapolis in 1969, where Donohue was named rookie of the year. In 1971, Donohue scored the first win for Team Penske in IndyCar at the Pocono 500. Donohue won the team's first Indianapolis 500 in May 1972. In 1978, Penske along with Pat Patrick, Dan Gurney, and several other team owners who had been participating in USAC events involving cars known as Champ Cars and IndyCars formed Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART). As of May 28, 2023, Team Penske has won the Indianapolis 500 19 times,^[8] won the Indianapolis 500 pole position 18 times, as well as 200 open wheel IndyCar wins in USAC, CART and IRL (as of May 19, 2018), 29 of which are in 500-Mile Races and 13 open-wheel championships. Team Penske has 1,463 starts in IndyCar races, 231 pole positions, 71 wins from pole, 47 double wins of which 8 are 1–2–3 finishes from the Pocono race on June 26, 1977, to January 1, 2015.

Oldsmobile and Chevrolet engines era

In 2001, Team Penske marked its return to the Indy 500 after a five-year absence due to the open wheel split, after the 1995 PPG IndyCar World Series season with an Oldsmobile engines. Later, in 2001 Roger Penske announced he would leave CART for the 2002 IRL IndyCar Series season with Chevrolet engines.

Toyota engines (2003–2005)

As Toyota confirmed defection from CART Champ Car to IRL IndyCar Series, the team switched to Toyota engines from 2003 season onwards as it was announced on April 2, 2002.^[9] The team's partnership with Toyota engines started well in 2003 including winning the 2003 Indianapolis 500 in the hands of Gil de Ferran. However, Team Penske's Toyota partnership started to decline in 2004 by scoring only two wins, five pole positions, and three fastest laps compared to 2003 due to driver errors and also incidents. The team also resurged slightly in 2005 with just only three wins and two pole positions.

Honda engines (2006–2011)

On October 31, 2005, it was announced that Team Penske ended their engine deal with Toyota and switched to Honda with an initial five-year deal.^[10] Penske had collaborated with Honda engines in the 2000–2001 CART Champ Car season. After a prolonged period, the team announced Hélio Castroneves and Sam Hornish Jr. as their official race drivers. Despite the Honda partnership, Penske had a de facto direct Honda factory support, with engines coming straight from the Japanese company's racing division in Japan and the United States including tune-up support from Ilmor Engineering in Plymouth, Michigan. The partnership started well in 2006, winning the 2006 Indianapolis 500 and 2006 IndyCar Series titles at the hands of Sam Hornish Jr..

Penske retained their Castroneves - Hornish Jr. pair for the 2007 season. The second year of the renewed Honda partnership was much more promising than the first with the team coming close to defending their Indianapolis 500 victory, as well as their IndyCar Series driver and team titles. However, the team slumped, scoring only two victories due to driver errors and incidents. The team failed to win major IndyCar silverware for the first time since the 2005 season. On November 9, 2007, Sam Hornish Jr. announced he would depart from IndyCar Series to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving full-time for the 2008 season^[11] with Team Penske American Le Mans Series confirming Porsche LMP2 driver Ryan Briscoe as Castroneves's new teammate for 2008 on November 13, 2007.^[12]

Team Penske started the 2008 season poorly but Hélio Castroneves posted five top-four finishes (including two 2nd-place finishes) to start the year. Meanwhile, Ryan Briscoe was forced to adapt the Penske IndyCar car, as Briscoe was entering his first season with Team Penske after spending two years as an IndyCar part-timer whilst he raced in the Champ Car World Series in 2006 and later the American Le Mans Series in 2007. Ryan Briscoe finally scored his first win at the Milwaukee Mile while Castroneves claimed his first 2008 win in Infineon Raceway. Castroneves nearly won the championship at Chicagoland Speedway, but Scott Dixon finished in 2nd place to ensure his 2008 IndyCar Series driver's title.

For 2009, Verizon Wireless, joined ExxonMobil (McLaren's then fuel and lubricant partner) as associate sponsors, and the team was billed as Verizon Championship Racing. The third car was driven by Will Power (originally a substitute for Castroneves) and carried the No. 12 and featured primary sponsorship of both the Verizon Wireless brand and Roger Penske's truck rental business.

For the 2010 season, the team entered their fifth year of its Penske-Honda partnership with Will Power promoted to a full-time Penske seat alongside Castroneves and Briscoe. Team Penske became a three-car team for the first time since 1994, with the addition of a full-time team for Power. Team Penske started the 2010 season in style by winning the first three races of the season. Will Power challenged for the driver's title until suspension failure in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway robbed him of a shot at the championship. Penske ended up finishing the 2010 season with nine wins, thirteen pole positions, and six fastest laps (mostly by Will Power).

On 12 November 2010, Penske confirmed that they would end their partnership with Honda at the end of the 2011 season and use engines supplied by Chevrolet for the 2012 season. For the 2011 season, the team entered their sixth and final year of its Penske-Honda partnership. Penske's trio of Castroneves-Briscoe-Power remained for the second consecutive year while the team lost the ExxonMobil sponsorship to Stewart-Haas Racing's NASCAR team in favor of Shell and Pennzoil as their official motor oil partner. The team started well with two victories from Will Power in the first five races. Power captured his first oval win at Texas Motor Speedway and came into the season finale at Las Vegas 18 points behind leader Dario Franchitti. However, on lap 11 of the race, Power was collected in a fiery 15-car crash that killed defending Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon. The race was cut short in Wheldon's honor and the championship points stood as they had to enter Las Vegas, giving Franchitti his third consecutive driver's title (and fourth overall). Penske finished the 2011 season with six victories, all from Will Power, while Castroneves and Briscoe went winless.

Return to Chevrolet engines (2012–present)

Roger Penske announced a switch to full-works General Motors-owned Chevrolet engines for the 2012 IndyCar Series season onwards and thus Team Penske earned a full-factory support from General Motors and Chevrolet and also Team Penske received free engines formally from Ilmor and Chevrolet as Roger Penske has a shares at Ilmor Engineering Ltd. as well as Chevrolet official team vehicles, financial support and also Chevrolet and Ilmor staff would work with the team at their Mooresville base.^[13] Once again, Penske would dominate the early portion of the season, winning 4 consecutive races, with Castroneves taking the season opener at St. Petersburg, and Power capturing wins at Barber, Long Beach, and São Paulo. Briscoe would have struggles throughout the season but managed to find victory lane at Sonoma. However, Power would come up short in the championship after a crash at the season finale. Briscoe left the team after 2012 for other opportunities.

In 2014, Will Power took the IndyCar Championship for Team Penske after 3 concurrent runner up finishes in 2010–2012.^[14]

The 2015 season started well for Team Penske, Juan Pablo Montoya won the first race of the season, his second win for Penske since he arrived from NASCAR in 2014, with teammates Will Power, Helio Castroneves, and Simon Pagenaud (first season with the team) finishing 2nd, 4th, and 5th. Power got a win at the Grand Prix of Indianapolis in the 5th race of the season and just 2 weeks later, the Colombian Montoya won the Indy 500 leading again teammate Will Power. Juan Pablo Montoya would lose the championship in the final race on a tie-breaker to Scott Dixon.^[15]

Team Penske would go on to dominate 2016, filling the top 3 positions in the final standings. Capping the season with a dominating race victory, Simon Pagenaud won his first IndyCar championship, becoming the ninth Penske driver to be crowned champion. Roger Penske's organization claimed its 14th such title and its second in three years (Power won in '14).^[16]

In 2017 Team Penske signed Josef Newgarden from Ed Carpenter Racing and would secure back-to-back IndyCar championships with Newgarden winning his first in 2017. Newgarden won a second championship for the team in 2019 while Will Power and Simon Pagenaud respectively won back-to-back Indianapolis 500s in 2018 and 2019. In 2020 the team would win the most races of any team in the IndyCar series but did not win the Indianapolis 500 or secure the IndyCar championship, with Newgarden being unable to defend his title against Scott Dixon.

In 2021 Team Penske expanded again to four-time cars. The year also marked the arrival of three-time Supercars champion and former DJR Team Penske driver Scott McLaughlin to the team, marking the first time Team Penske had signed a driver without any open-wheel experience to compete in their open-wheel racing program since Rick Mears signed to compete with the team in 1978. 2021 would be a difficult season for Team Penske. While McLaughlin was given time to adapt to IndyCar racing all three of the team's former champions would see their worst years with Team Penske. Both Will Power and Josef Newgarden recorded the lowest win totals of their Team Penske tenures in 2021 and had easy victories at Detroit and Road America taken away from them in the closing laps due to mechanical failures, while Simon Pagenaud was only able to record two third-place finishes as his best result of the year.^[17]^[18] The team also recorded their worst Indianapolis 500 a performance in a nearly twenty years; none of Team Penske's drivers qualified inside the top fifteen, Will Power was almost bumped from the starting lineup, and their best result was a third-place via a late charge by Simon Pagenaud. A bright spot for the team was their partnership with all-female operated Paretta Autosport team for the 2021 Indianapolis 500; Team Penske prepped a chassis leased from Juncos Racing and helped the team qualify Simona De Silvestro at the last spot on the starting lineup, though De Silvestro and the Penske prepped car would fail to finish the race. Scott McLaughlin would be named both IndyCar and Indianapolis 500 Rookie Of The Year while Josef Newgarden was able to finish in second place in the championship for a second consecutive season.

For 2022 Simon Pagenaud departed the team for Meyer Shank Racing, bringing Team Penske back down to three full-time IndyCar entries. The team would struggle again at the Indianapolis 500 but their overall form would be greatly improved, with the team winning four of the first seven races of the season and nine races overall in the season. Scott McLaughlin would take his first IndyCar win at the season opener in St. Petersburg while Will Power and Josef Newgarden would hold the championship points lead at different points in the season. Will Power would ultimately clinch his second IndyCar championship at the season finale.

For 2023, Team Penske would return to the winner's circle at Indianapolis, with Josef Newgarden clinching the 107th Indianapolis 500, becoming the first American driver to win the race since 2016. 2023 was otherwise a difficult season for the team; only one of their drivers finishing in the top three of the IndyCar points standings, only winning one road course event, and Will Power recorded no wins for the first time in sixteen seasons.

In 2024, Team Penske incurred controversy when Josef Newgarden was disqualified from his season opening win at St. Petersburg for having illegally manipulated ECU software to allow for push to pass to be used on the race restarts, marking the first time the team had been stripped of an IndyCar win since Al Unser Jr.'s 1995 win at Portland. Unlike that race, Penske elected not to appeal the loss of the win and Tim Cindric was banned from the Penske paddock for several races. The team however did have a strong start to the season, with all three of their drivers picking up wins in the first seven races and Newgarden becoming the first driver since Helio Castroneves to win back to back Indianapolis 500s, giving Penske their 20th Indianapolis 500 win.

1994 PPG IndyCar World Series

1994 Penske PC-23 Speedway Oval Package. The car displayed was driven by Al Unser Jr.

Penske's 1994 IndyCar World Series Championship was one of, if not the most dominating performance from a race team in the history of American open-wheel racing. Roger Penske had found the key to win but also found a way to run from the competition. The new Penske PC-23 chassis with the Ilmor- Indy V8 engine would power the Penske drivers of Al Unser Jr., Paul Tracy, and Emerson Fittipaldi. The team racked up 12 wins out of 16 races, collecting 10 poles and 28 podium finishes on their way to the championship. The team also dominated a controversial May at Indianapolis. Penske debuted a radical new Mercedes-Benz engine at Indy, the 500I. This engine used a provision in the rules intended for stock block pushrod engines such as the V-6 Buick engines that allowed an extra 650 cm³ and 10 inches (4.9 psi/33.8 kPa) of boost. This extra power (at least 900 horsepower, and rumored to be over 1000) allowed the Penskes to run significantly faster, giving them the pole and outside front row on the grid for the 78th Indianapolis 500. Al Unser Jr. and Emerson Fittipaldi dominated the race, eventually lapping the field with 16 laps to go in the 200 lap race when Fittipaldi made contact with the wall coming out of Turn 4, giving Al Unser Jr. the lead and win. The only driver who finished on the lead lap was rookie Jacques Villeneuve. This one season gave Penske the Driver's Championship with Al Unser Jr., Constructor's Cup with the Penske PC-23, and Manufacturer's Cup with the Ilmor-Indy V8 engine. (In the 1995 Indy 500 Penske failed to qualify any cars for the race)

Drivers

Penske's No. 3 Dallara-Honda at the 2007 Indianapolis 500

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) (injury replacement)
Emerson Fittipaldi (1990–1996)
Paul Tracy (1991–1994, 1996–1997)
Al Unser Jr. (1994–1999)
Jan Magnussen (1996) (injury replacement)
André Ribeiro (1998)
Alex Barron (1999, 2003; 2003 as injury replacement)
Gonzalo Rodriguez (1999) (killed at Laguna Seca Raceway)
Tarso Marques (1999) (injury replacement)
Gil de Ferran (2000–2003)
Hélio Castroneves (2000–2020)
Max Papis (2002) (injury replacement)
Sam Hornish Jr. (2004–2007)
Ryan Briscoe (2008–2012)
Will Power (2009–present) (legal replacement, 1 race; two other races in No. 12 in 2009, full-time in 2010 beyond)
A. J. Allmendinger (2013)
Juan Pablo Montoya (2014–2017)
Simon Pagenaud (2015–2021)
Oriol Servia (2016) (injury replacement)
Josef Newgarden (2017–present)
Scott McLaughlin (2020–present)
Note: This does not include Greg Moore, who in mid-1999 signed a contract with Penske Racing to join the team for the 2000 season. Moore was killed in a crash on Lap 10 of the Marlboro 500 at the Auto Club Speedway in the last race of the 1999 season while in his last race for Forsythe Championship Racing. Castroneves, who had been driving for Hogan Racing, which shut down after the 1999 season, was tapped to fill that seat.

Sponsorship

Cigarette brand Marlboro had been a sponsor with Team Penske since the 1989 Indianapolis 500, and primary sponsor of all Team Penske IndyCars since 1991. Late in 2005, Team Penske announced that Marlboro would not appear on the cars any longer following the instruction of Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement restricting cigarette advertising by name. In 2007, the IndyCar Series cars began to carry Team Penske insignia by removing Marlboro branding and sponsorship from Mobil 1 (although the cars remained painted in the Marlboro color scheme—in Formula 1 the Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro and McLaren has a similar set up due to Marlboro partnership).

In 2010, Phillip Morris USA discontinued their relationship with Team Penske, ending a 19-year partnership. The team subsequently changed their livery to black and white with red trim, reflecting Verizon sponsorship (similar to McLaren Formula One team when they had a black-silver livery from 1997 to 2005 reflecting Mercedes-Benz engines and West sponsorship).

NASCAR

Sports car racing

Trans-Am Series

Penske first fielded a blue Sunoco 1967 Chevrolet Camaro driven by Mark Donohue in this series designed for Pony cars like the Ford Mustang. Penske-entered Camaros won the series championship in 1968 and 1969. Later they ^[19] switched to a red/white/blue American Motors backed 1970 AMC Javelin, and later the restyled 1971 AMC Javelin AMX which had an aerodynamic tail spoiler and other features suggested by Donohue. American Motors won the Over 2.5-liter title in 1971, after which Penske withdrew from the championship. Penske Racing also had an alliance with the pioneer Trans-Am team, Jocko's Racing which won the 1976 Trans-Am Series championship in a Penske-leased car.

Can-Am Series

Penske Racing entered a Lola T70 in the 1966 Can-Am Series for Mark Donohue, resulting in one win at Mosport. In 1967, Penske Racing entered two Lolas, one for Mark Donohue and one for George Follmer. 1968 saw Penske switch to a McLaren M6, which had won the series in 1967. Donohue won one race that year in Can-Am at Bridgehampton. With the McLaren domination of the Can-Am, Penske switched back to Lola Cars for his 1969 Can-Am efforts, but only entered the car in one race at Mid-Ohio.

From 1972 to 1974, Penske was Porsche's official partner in the CanAm Series. In late 1971, Penske and Mark Donohue helped to develop the turbocharged version of the Porsche 917. George Follmer won the series in 1972, and Donohue dominated CanAm in 1973 with the ultimate evolution of the 917, the 917/30. The rules were changed for 1974, and Penske raced only once this year.

Porsche 917/30, in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen Museum

Endurance racing

A Lola T70 Mk IIIb entered by Penske was the surprise winner of the 1969 24 Hours of Daytona.

During the 1970 season, the competition between the 5-liter sportscars of Porsche and Ferrari turned to the advantage of the Porsche 917. In 1971, Ferrari decided to give up any official effort with the 5-liter Ferrari 512. To prepare for the 1972 season, the new works prototype Ferrari 312PB was presented and engaged by the factory in several races.

Roger Penske bought a used 512 M chassis that was dismantled and rebuilt. The car was specially tuned for long races receiving many unique features, among them were a large rear wing and aviation-inspired quick refueling system. The engine was tuned by CanAm V8 specialist Traco, and was probably able to deliver more than 600 hp (450 kW). As of today, it is unknown to what extent Penske's initiative was backed by Ferrari works. This 512M was painted in a blue and yellow livery and was sponsored by Sunoco and the Californian Ferrari dealer Kirk F. White. The car made the pole position for the 1971 24 Hours of Daytona and finished second despite an accident. For the 12 Hours of Sebring the "Sunoco" made the pole again but finished the race at the sixth position after making contact with Pedro Rodrigez's 917. Despite this misfortune, the car had proved to be a serious opponent for the 917. Not only this car was the fastest on track in Daytona and Sebring but it was also the car that had the shortest refueling time.

The presence of the 512 M "Sunoco" forced Porsche to pursue his effort of research and development on the 917: The 917K short tail was modified, and the 917 LH aerodynamics received further improvements. New Magnesium chassis were developed. An entirely new car, the 917/20 was built as a test-bed for future CanAm parts and aerodynamic "low-drag" concepts.

In Le Mans the "Sunoco" Ferrari was unable to break the 200 mph (320 km/h) barrier on the straight while the Porsche 917 LH were lightning-quick at speeds of over 240 mph (380 km/h). Mark Donohue qualified fourth anyway, which was the result of an aerodynamic configuration that favored downforce over drag, which helped in the twistier sections. 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 an Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) sanctioned LMP2 Class Prototype that would be entered by Penske Racing in the American Le Mans Series and thus formally competed as DHL Porsche Penske Racing in a reference of Porsche Motorsport works team. The Porsche RS Spyder made its successful debut at the ALMS season final race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The "Porsche Junioren" factory drivers Sascha Maassen and Lucas Luhr finished 1st in LMP2 Class and 5th Overall in the 4–Hour Endurance Race. The livery of the Penske Racing American Le Mans Series team was inspired by Jordan EJ12's DHL Formula 1 livery driven by Giancarlo Fisichella and Takuma Sato.

In 2006, Penske Motorsports fielded two LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder in the American Le Mans Series, but did not run the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. The Penske cars combined to win seven class victories and the overall win at Mid-Ohio. Penske Racing won the LMP2 team championship. Drivers Sascha Maassen and Lucas Luhr tied for first place in the driver's championship, while Timo Bernhard finished fifth, Romain Dumas finished sixth, and Emmanuel Collard finished tenth.

2006 team lineup:

LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder No. 6: Sascha Maassen, Lucas Luhr (with Emmanuel Collard for endurance events)
LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder No. 7: Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas (with Patrick Long for endurance events)

In 2007, Penske Motorsports fielded two LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder Evo in the American Le Mans Series. Penske Motorsports for the 2nd year in a row did not compete in 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. Penske's two cars combined for eleven class victories and eight overall victories during the twelve race season. Penske won the LMP2 team championship, and 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.

2007 team lineup:

LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder No. 6: Sascha Maassen, Ryan Briscoe (with Emmanuel Collard for endurance events)
LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder No. 7: Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas (with Hélio Castroneves (Sebring only) and Patrick Long (Road Atlanta only) for endurance events)

Penske started their 2008 season with an overall win in the 12 Hours of Sebring. This was Porsche's first overall win in the race since 1988 in a Porsche 962.

2008 team lineup:

LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder No. 5: Hélio Castroneves, Ryan Briscoe (Road Atlanta 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 endurance events)

Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series

On December 4, 2008, Roger Penske announced that the Team Penske officially shut down its participation in the American Le Mans Series and thus defected to ALMS's rival Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series for the full 2009 season. The team utilized a Porsche-powered Riley with Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas as their official drivers.^[20] However, in late 2009, Roger Penske announced that the team would shut down its Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series operations and be turned into the new No. 12 Verizon sponsored IndyCar for Will Power to run full-time in 2010.

IMSA

In 2017, it was announced that Team Penske would make a comeback to sportscar racing in IMSA's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in a 3-year partnership with Acura, starting in the 2018 season, running 2 Acura ARX-05 DPis in the prototype (P) class. To prepare their debut in 2018 season, Team Penske took part in the last race of 2017, the Petit Le Mans using the Oreca 07 LMP2 (same framework that the Acura DPi was based on), placing third.

2018 line-up:

No. 6 Acura ARX-05: Juan Pablo Montoya, Dane Cameron (full season), Simon Pagenaud (endurance)
No. 7 Acura ARX-05: Hélio Castroneves, Ricky Taylor (full season), Graham Rahal (endurance)

2019–2020 line-up:

No. 6 Acura ARX-05: Juan Pablo Montoya, Dane Cameron (full season), Simon Pagenaud (endurance)
No. 7 Acura ARX-05: Hélio Castroneves, Ricky Taylor (full season), Alexander Rossi (endurance)

In 2019 Team Penske won the drivers championship with Juan Pablo Montoya and Dane Cameron, while Hélio Castroneves and Ricky Taylor finished 3rd on the championship. In 2020 Team Penske won again the drivers championship, this time with Hélio Castroneves and Ricky Taylor. In the end of that season Penske left IMSA as the 3-year partnership with Acura reached its end.^[21]

Penske would return to Endurance and IMSA in a partnership with Porsche for the new LMDh regulations. For the 2023 season, the team was the only one that fielded the Porsche 963 at the 2023 24 Hours of Daytona. With the No. 6 Porsche retiring due to a gearbox issue and No. 7 finishing in 7th place.^[22]

Return with Porsche 963

In May 2021 Porsche announced its return to FIA World Endurance Championship new category LMDh with Penske running their factory team.^[23]^[24] They announced their return to both WEC and IMSA for 2023 season running two new Porsche 963 in each competition.^[25] To prepare their return to WEC, Penske took part in WEC 2022 season with one Oreca 07-Gibson in LMP2 class.^[26]^[27] Former Team Penske lubricant partner and supplier Mobil 1 rejoined as official team's lubricant partner and supplier from 2023 season onwards due to the Porsche partnership.

2023 line-up:

WEC No. 5 Porsche 963: Dane Cameron, Michael Christensen, Frédéric Makowiecki
WEC No. 6 Porsche 963: Kévin Estre, André Lotterer, Laurens Vanthoor
IMSA No. 6 Porsche 963: Mathieu Jaminet, Nick Tandy (full season), Dane Cameron and Laurens Vanthoor
IMSA No. 7 Porsche 963: Matt Campbell, Felipe Nasr (full season), Michael Christensen and Josef Newgarden

Formula One

Penske competed in the Formula One World Championship as a chassis constructor from 1974 to 1977 and as a works team from 1974 to 1976. Although the cars were built at the British base in Poole,^[28] the works team held an American licence.^[29] Excluding the Indianapolis 500, Penske is, along with the All American Racers, one of only two American constructors to have achieved a win in a Formula One race.

In 1971 Penske had sponsored the McLaren car entered in the 1971 Canadian Grand Prix by the White Racing privateer team^[30] and in the 1971 United States Grand Prix by the Kirk White privateer team.^[31] At the Canadian Grand Prix Mark Donohue took the Penske-sponsored McLaren car to a podium finish. Penske returned three years later, in the 1974 Canadian Grand Prix, with their own works team as well as own chassis, the Penske PC1, a standard tub built around a Cosworth DFV engine and a Hewland gearbox. Donohue took the car to 12th place on its debut.

In 1975, Roger Penske mounted a full season attack with the PC1 car, Donohue managing to score a fifth place in the Swedish Grand Prix. However, the car was retired after the French Grand Prix and Penske entered a March 751 car for the next three races, scoring another fifth in the British Grand Prix. However, Donohue crashed the car in the final practice session of the Austrian Grand Prix at Spielberg and later died from his injuries. Penske missed the Italian Grand Prix, returning only for the United States Grand Prix, abandoning the March 751 car in favor of the PC1 car with Northern Irish driver John Watson.

For the 1976 season, Penske signed a sponsorship deal with Citibank and entered a brand new Penske PC3 car for Watson. Despite a fifth-place score at the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami, the PC3 car was evolved into the PC4 car, which was much more competitive, allowing Watson to score two podiums in France and Britain. Then, in the Austrian Grand Prix, the team scored their only Formula One win. So far this has been the last time an American-licensed constructor won a Formula One race.^[32]^[33]^[34] Still, at the end of the year, Penske decided to withdraw from the sport to concentrate solely on Indycar racing, selling the remains of his European operations to Günter Schmid of Germany.

For the 1977 season, the car was entered by Schmid's ATS Wheels business and run by his privateer team ATS Racing Team. The ATS-Penske PC4, now painted yellow, debuted in the United States Grand Prix West with Jean-Pierre Jarier at the wheel, where the Frenchman scored the team's single point of the season. A second PC4 was eventually entered for Hans Heyer (who started the German Grand Prix despite failing to qualify) and Hans Binder (3 races) but the team's fortunes sank and Schmid quit after the Italian Grand Prix, before returning in the 1978 season with his own chassis. A third PC4 car was built by Penske for the Interscope Racing team, who entered the car in the United States and Canadian Grands Prix, driven by American Danny Ongais with no results.

In the 1979 season Penske designed and built the Rebaque HR100 car for wealthy Mexican 'gentleman driver' Héctor Rebaque. The car was entered for the final three races of the season, but either failed to qualify or to finish in each case.

Supercars Championship

In 2015, Team Penske entered the Australian V8 Supercars Championship, having purchased a 51% stake in Dick Johnson Racing in September 2014. The team was known as DJR Team Penske.^[35] The team raced a single Ford Falcon FG X in 2015, initially with Marcos Ambrose driving car No. 17^[36] and Scott Pye as a co-driver in the Endurance Cup. Following the Australian Grand Prix support race, Ambrose requested to step aside from driving to let Scott Pye become the main driver from Round 2 at Symmons Plains onwards. Ambrose then became the endurance co-driver in the Endurance Cup.^[37]

In October 2015, DJR Team Penske announced a return to a two-car team in 2016 with Fabian Coulthard to drive car No. 12 and Scott Pye in car No. 17.^[38] Roger Penske later confirmed that Ambrose elected not to continue as a co-driver in 2016.^[39]

For the 2017 season, Scott McLaughlin joined the team and became the new driver for the No. 17 Ford Falcon FG X Supercar.^[40] DJR Team Penske took out the 2017 Teams Championship, and in the following year Scott McLaughlin took out the 2018 Drivers Championship in the Australia Supercars Championship. In 2019 he took out his second Drivers Championship winning an Australian Touring Cars/Supercars record of 18 races and with co-driver Alex Premat, Scott McLaughlin won his first Bathurst 1000. In October 2020, Penske sold back its shareholding in DJR Team Penske.^[41]

Indianapolis 500 statistics

Team Penske has the most Indianapolis 500 victories of any team in auto-racing history with 20 victories. In 1972, Penske driver Gary Bettenhausen led the most laps but lost an engine with 24 laps to go. His teammate Mark Donohue led the waning laps en route to Penske's first Indianapolis 500 victory. In 1979, Penske driver Bobby Unser led the most laps of the Indianapolis 500 while teammate Rick Mears won the race, from the pole.

Penske's next 500 victory was one of the most controversial finishes in IndyCar history. Penske driver Unser won the pole position and led most of the final 100 laps. On lap 140, Bobby Unser and former Penske driver Mario Andretti came out of the pits. Unser passed 11 cars under a yellow flag while Andretti passed 2 cars. Unser won the race but was stripped of the victory the next morning in favor of Andretti. After a lengthy appeal, Unser was reinstated the victory and was instead fined $40,000 ($104,000 in today's money). Unser retired from racing after the season was over in the fall-out of the controversy.

Penske's next Indy 500 win was with Rick Mears in 1984. Mears and former Penske driver Tom Sneva battled for the lead in the final 100 laps but after Sneva dropped out with a broken CV joint, Mears led the final 40 laps unchallenged to win by 2-laps ahead of the field. The next year, first-year Penske driver Danny Sullivan led the final 61 laps en route to his first Indianapolis 500 victory after winning a 4-lap shootout with Mario Andretti. In 1987, Penske driver Danny Ongais got taken out of the race due to injuries and former Penske driver Al Unser was tabbed as a temporary replacement. Unser won the race.

1988 was one of the most dominating performances by Penske Racing in the history of the Indianapolis 500. Penske's team members, Sullivan, Unser, and Mears qualified in the front row and proceeded to lead 192 of the race's 200 laps, 91 by Sullivan, 89 by Mears, and 12 by Unser. Mears won the race. In 1991, Mears won an 18-lap duel with Michael Andretti to win his 4th Indianapolis 500. Emerson Fittipaldi won the 500 in 1993 but angered American fans by drinking orange juice instead of the traditional milk.

In 1994, the Penske team, consisting of Al Unser Jr., Paul Tracy and Emerson Fittipaldi led 193 of the race's 200 laps, thanks to a new engine invented by Penske that went up to 1000 horsepower. The engine was later banned, which resulted in Penske Racing not qualifying a single car in the 1995 Indianapolis 500.

Due to the open-wheel split, Penske did not field a car at the Indianapolis 500 from 1996 to 2000. In 2001, Penske Racing crossed a picket-line by fielding the team in the 500, consisting of rookie Hélio Castroneves and Gil de Ferran. The duo proceeded to lead the most laps, en route to the victory, giving Penske Racing a 1-2 finish, the first time in the team's history. In a post-race interview, Roger Penske said that after the heartbreak in 1995, the win was the biggest of all his Indy 500 wins.

In 2002, Castroneves barely beat Paul Tracy to win his second consecutive Indy 500. Controversy overshadowed the race when videotapes appeared to have shown that Tracy was ahead of Castroneves at the moment of a final-lap caution. After a lengthy appeal, Castroneves' win was upheld on July 2. In 2003, Gil de Ferran won his first 500 and then retired when the season was over. Penske Racing has since proceeded to win the 500 in 2006, 2009, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2023, and 2024

Penske Racing Museum

Opened in 2002, the Penske Racing Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona, is located within a complex of Penske Automotive Group car dealerships at the Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection. The two-story, 9,000-square-foot (840 m²) museum houses approximately 20 historically significant Penske Racing cars, along with trophies, artwork, engines, and other memorabilia dating from Penske Racing's earliest origins up to the present day. Displays are rotated regularly, but the museum focuses primarily on the team's successes in the Indy 500 and NASCAR, with lesser emphasis on F1 and sports car racing.

Racing results

USAC Championship Car results

(key) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
1968					HAN1	LVG	PHX1	TRE1	INDY	MIL1	MOS		LAN1	PIP	CDR	NAZ	IRP		LAN2		MTR		SPR	MIL2	DQSF	ISF	TRE2	SAC	MIC	HAN2	PHX2	RIV
1968	Eagle 68	Offy 159 tc	Mark Donohue	12							6	4																				21
1969					PHX1	HAN	INDY	MIL1	LAN	PIP	CDR	NAZ	TRE1	IRP		MIL2	SPR	DDIS	DQSF	ISF	BRN		TRE2	SAC	KEN		PHX2	RIV
1969	Lola T152 4WD	Offy 159 tc	Mark Donohue	66			7							DNQ							7	4			16			21
1970					PHX1	SON	TRE1	INDY	MIL1	LAN	CDR	MIC	IRP	SPR	MIL2	ONT	DQSF	ISF	SED	TRE2	SAC	PHX2
	Lola T154	Chevy V8	Mark Donohue	68		25							2
	Lola T154	Ford DOHC tc	Mark Donohue	68				2								30
1971					RAF		PHX1	TRE1	INDY	MIL1	POC	MIC	MIL2	ONT	TRE2	PHX2
	Lola T153	Ford DOHC tc	Mark Donohue	68			6	19
	Lola T153	Ford DOHC tc	David Hobbs	68					20
	McLaren M16A	Offy 159 tc	Mark Donohue	66					25		1	1		18	6	16
1972					PHX	TRE	INDY	MIL	MIC	POC	MIL	ONT	TRE	PHX
	McLaren M16A/B	Offy 159 tc	Gary Bettenhausen	7	4	1	14	3	24	19
			Gordon Johncock	7							22
			Mark Donohue	66	17	19	1	2					2	16
			Mike Hiss	66								2
1973					TXS	TRE		INDY	MIL	POC	MIC	MIL	ONT			MIC		TRE	TXS	PHX
	McLaren M16C	Offy Drake tc	Gary Bettenhausen	5	2	6	17	5	3	27	24	20		2	19	2	8	24	1
	Eagle 72	Offy 159 tc	Gary Bettenhausen	5																6
	McLaren M16C	Offy Drake tc	Bobby Allison	12				32
	Eagle 72	Offy 159 tc	Mark Donohue	66				15		17					29
	McLaren M16B	Offy 159 tc	Al Loquasto (R)	86				DNQ
1974					ONT			PHX1	TRE1	INDY	MIL1	POC	MIC1	MIL2	MIC2	TRE2	TRE3	PHX2
	McLaren M16C	Offy Drake tc	Gary Bettenhausen	8		11	20		DNQ	32	2	31
	Eagle 72	Offy 159 tc	Gary Bettenhausen					14
	McLaren M16C	Offy Drake tc	Mike Hiss										7
	McLaren M16C	Offy Drake tc	Mike Hiss	68			31			14					4
1975					ONT			PHX1	TRE1	INDY	MIL1	POC	MIC1	MIL2	MIC2	TRE2	PHX2
	McLaren M16C/D	Offy Drake tc	Bobby Allison	16		6	32			25		27	17
	McLaren M16C/D	Offy Drake tc	Tom Sneva	68	9		6	7	6	22		29	2	3	1	13	2
1976					PHX1	TRE1	INDY	MIL1	POC	MIC1	TXS1	TRE2	MIL2	ONT	MIC2	TXS2	PHX2
	McLaren M16C/D	Offy Drake tc	Mario Andretti	6			8		5
			Mario Andretti	68												4	3
			Tom Sneva	68	17	3	6	13	7	6	16	3	13	26	5
1977					ONT1	PHX1	TXS1	TRE	INDY	MIL1	POC	MOS	MIC1	TXS2	MIL2	ONT2	MIC2	PHX2
	McLaren M24	Cosworth DFX	Tom Sneva	8	14	16	1	10	2	2	1	3			18
	Penske PC5/77		Tom Sneva	8									4	5		3	10	17
	McLaren M24		Mario Andretti	9		DNQ		16	26		2					4		4
	Penske PC5/77		Mario Andretti	9													20
1978					PHX1	ONT1	TXS1	TRE1	INDY	MOS	MIL1	POC	MIC1	ATL	TXS2	MIL2	ONT2	MIC2	TRE2	SIL	BRH	PHX2
	Penske PC-6/78	Cosworth DFX	Tom Sneva	1	22	2	2	3	2	4	15	3	2	8	5	15	23	2	3	3	2	16
			Mario Andretti	7	DNS	15	5	13	12			23					DNS	20	1			7
			Mike Hiss						Rpl¹
			Rick Mears		5					2	1		22	1	9	2	9			2	1
			Rick Mears	71					23
			George Snider	71											DNS
Source^[42]

¹ Mike Hiss was hired by Penske to qualify Mario Andretti's #7 car for the 1978 Indianapolis 500 while Andretti was racing in Formula One; Andretti would then drive the car on race-day.

Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) results

(key)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Pts Pos	Pos
1979					PHX	ATL		INDY	TRT		MCH		WGL	TRT	ONT	MCH	ATL	PHX
	Penske PC-6/7	Cosworth DFX	Rick Mears	9	2	5	2	1	5	7	4	5	2	1	2	3	1	3								1st	4,060
	Penske PC-7		Bobby Unser	12	5	7	4	5	1	1	19	1	1	2	1	1	3	2								2nd	3,820
			Bill Alsup (R)	68				DNQ																		15th	400
			Mario Andretti	99											3	DNQ										11th	700
1980					ONT	INDY	MIL	POC	MDO	MCH	WGL	MIL	ONT	MCH	MXC	PHX
	Penske PC-7/9	Cosworth DFX	Rick Mears	1	21	5	5	12	9	4	2	2	3	3	1	7										4th	2,866
	Penske PC-9		Bobby Unser	11	23	19	1	1	15	2	1	3	1	2	2	DNQ										2nd	3,714
	Penske PC-9		Mario Andretti	12		20		17						1		2										16th	580
	Penske PC-7		Tom Gloy	61					6				5	9												14th	680
1981					PHX	MIL	ATL		MCH	RIV	MIL	MCH	WGL	MXC	PHX
	Penske PC-9B	Cosworth DFX	Bobby Unser	3	2	21	13	6	16	9	3	7	17	15*	2											7th	99
			Rick Mears	6	4		1	1*	3	1*	2	1	1	1	8											1st	304
			Bill Alsup	7			8	8	4	3	11	4		5	17											2nd	175
1982					PHX	ATL	MIL	CLE	MCH	MIL	POC	RIV	ROA	MCH	PHX
	Penske PC-10	Cosworth DFX	Rick Mears	1	1*	1*	3	4	15*	12*	1*	1*	5	25	2											1st	294
	Penske PC-10	Cosworth DFX	Kevin Cogan	4	3	18	5	10*	14	5	2	10	25	22	4											6th	136
1983					ATL	INDY	MIL	CLE	MCH	ROA	POC	RIV	MDO	MCH	CPL	LAG	PHX
	Penske PC-11/10B	Cosworth DFX	Rick Mears	1	8*		3	7	4	17	3	19	9	1*	13	21	17									6th	92
			Rick Mears	2		3																				6th	92
			Al Unser	7	2	2	2	1*	2	3	11	11	4	5	4	11	4									1st	151
1984					LBH	PHX	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	MCH	ROA	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	PHX	LAG	CPL
	Penske PC-12 March 84C	Cosworth DFX	Al Unser	1	22	21		5	27	8	10	30	3	8	8	13	4	17	6	14						9th	76
			Al Unser	2			3																			9th	76
			Rick Mears	6	21	18	1*	2	10	10	4	3	4	2	5*	DNQ										4th	110
	March 84C		Johnny Rutherford													5	14*	11								22nd	20
	March 84C		Mike Thackwell																18	20						40th	0
1985					LBH	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	MCH	ROA	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	LAG	PHX	MIA
	March 85C	Cosworth DFX	Danny Sullivan	4	3		4	27	18	27	14	13	5	2	5	8	8	4	1							4th	126
			Danny Sullivan	5		1																				4th	126
			Rick Mears	1		21																				10th	51
			Rick Mears	5			3				30		1			2										10th	51
			Al Unser	5	5			4	3	3		7		27	13*		2	1*	4							1st	151
			Al Unser	11		4					2*		3			12										1st	151
1986					PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	TOR	MCH	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	ROA	LAG	PHX	MIA
	March 86C	Chevrolet 265A Cosworth DFX	Rick Mears	1	19			3	16		4	8	12	8	17		8	3		20						8th	89
	Penske PC-15			1		20				19						18			17		3
	March 86C			4			3*
	March 86C		Danny Sullivan		4	11		11	11	1	1*	2	25	16	3*	5	12	6	2	2						3rd	147
	Penske PC-15																				26
	March 86C			1			9
	March 86C	Chevrolet 265A	Al Unser	11									14	20							15					41st	0
	Penske PC-15	Chevrolet 265A	Al Unser	11	18		22																			41st	0
1987					LBH	PHX	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	TOR	MCH	POC	ROA	MDO	NAZ	LAG	MIA
	Penske PC-16	Chevrolet 265A	Danny Sullivan	3	22	11		11	11																	9th	87
	March 86C		Danny Sullivan	3			13			20	4	2	4	17	5	3	22	2	12							9th	87
	Penske PC-16		Rick Mears	8	9	20		21	3	18	7															5th	102
	March 86C		Rick Mears	8			23					10	21	1*	9	4	3	3	5							5th	102
			Danny Ongais	25			Inj																			42nd	0
		Cosworth DFX	Al Unser	25			1																			13th	39
		Cosworth DFX		6									2	15
	Penske PC-16	Chevrolet 265A		9															DNQ
1988					PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	MEA	MCH	POC	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG	MIA
	Penske PC-17	Chevrolet 265A	Rick Mears	5	22	8	1	1	6	23	6	3	13	23	3	12	7	5	2							4th	129
			Danny Sullivan	9	23	13	23*	2	1	3	2	4	1	18	5	4	1	1	5							1st	182
			Al Unser	1			3																			19th	23
			Al Unser	60									9	13												19th	23
1989					PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MCH	POC	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG
	Penske PC-18	Chevrolet 265A	Danny Sullivan	1	3	8	28	10	24			8	3*	23	1	5	1	3	14							7th	107
			Geoff Brabham							14																39th	0
			Al Unser								10															16th	14
			Al Unser	25			24							8	7											16th	14
			Rick Mears	4	1	5	23	1	5	8	5	4	5	7	2	6	3	2	1							2nd	186
1990					PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MCH	DEN	VAN	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG
	Penske PC-19	Chevrolet 265A	Emerson Fittipaldi	1	5	2	3	3	7	9	3	6	20	17	18	6	12	2	1	6						5th	144
			Rick Mears	2	1	6	5	2	4	5	8	2	12	14	7	4	7	3	2	4						3rd	168
			Danny Sullivan	7	6	3	32	8	14	4	1	14	4	21	2	2	5	16	18	1						6th	139
1991					SFR	LBH	PHX	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MCH	DEN	VAN	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG
	Penske PC-20	Chevrolet 265A	Rick Mears	3	3	4	5	1	15	5	6	17	3	20	1	8	6	6	15	15	5					4th	145
	Penske PC-20		Emerson Fittipaldi	5	19	17	3	11	8	1	2	2	7	21	20	2	17	2	6	8	4					5th	140
	Penske PC-19		Paul Tracy (R)	17											21					7	25					21st	6
1992					SFR	PHX	LBH	INDY	DET	POR	MIL	NHA	TOR	MCH	CLE	ROA	VAN	MDO	NAZ	LAG
	Penske PC-21	Chevrolet 265B	Emerson Fittipaldi	5	1	3	3	24	8	2	4	21	19	13	1*	1*	19	1	7	19						4th	151
			Al Unser	4															12							16th	15
			Rick Mears		2	8	6	26		7	16	4		16												13th	47
			Paul Tracy						16				21		19	17	23			16						12th	59
	Penske PC-20	Chevrolet 265A	Paul Tracy	7		4		20						2				2	3							12th	59
1993					SFR	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	NHA	ROA	VAN	MDO	NAZ	LAG
	Penske PC-22	Chevrolet 265C	Emerson Fittipaldi	4	2	14	13	1	3	23	1	2	2	13	3	5	7	1	5	2						2nd	183
	Penske PC-22	Chevrolet 265C	Paul Tracy	12	21	16	1	30	20	9	3	1	1	19	2	1	13	25	3	1						3rd	157
1994					SFR	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	NHA	VAN	ROA	NAZ	LAG
	Penske PC-23	Ilmor 265D	Emerson Fittipaldi	2	2	1*	21		2	2	2	20	3	10	3	3*	9	3	3	4						2nd	178
		Mercedes-Benz 500I	Emerson Fittipaldi	2				17*																		2nd	178
		Ilmor 265D	Paul Tracy	3	16	23	20		3	1	3	3	5	16	2*	2	20	18*	1*	1*						3rd	152
		Mercedes-Benz 500I	Paul Tracy	3				23																		3rd	152
		Ilmor 265D	Al Unser Jr.	31	14	2	1*		1*	10*	1*	1*	29	8	1	1	1	2	2	20						1st	225
		Mercedes-Benz 500I	Al Unser Jr.	31				1																		1st	225
1995					MIA	SFR	PHX	LBH	NAZ	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	ROA	TOR	CLE	MCH	MDO	NHA	VAN	LAG
	Penske PC-24	Mercedes-Benz IC108B	Al Unser Jr.	1	15	6	8	1*	13	DNQ	2*	5	1*	28	26	18	2	1	3	1*	6					2nd	161
	Lola T95/00			11						DNQ
	Reynard 94i			21						DNQ
	Penske PC-24		Emerson Fittipaldi	2	24	18	3*	20	1	DNQ	23	10	21	15	10	25	5	21	5	7	16					11th	67
	Lola T95/00			9						DNQ
	Penske PC-23			89						DNQ
1996					MIA	RIO	SFR	LBH	NAZ	500	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG
	Penske PC-25	Mercedes-Benz IC108C	Al Unser Jr.	2	8	2	9	3	3	8	2*	22	4	4	13	4	13	10*	5	16						4th	125
			Paul Tracy	3	23*	19	22	4	5	7	3	17	27	9	5	DNS		12	18	29						13th	60
			Jan Magnussen (R)	3													14									24th	5
1997					MIA	SFR	LBH	NAZ	RIO	GAT	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG	FON
	Penske PC-26	Mercedes-Benz IC108D	Al Unser Jr.	2	27	27	4	3	7	18	20	8	25	4	20	20	22	7	5	11	22					13th	67
	Penske PC-26	Mercedes-Benz IC108D	Paul Tracy	3	2	19*	7	1*	1	1	6	Wth	7	7	10	4	27	28	28	26	26					5th	121
1998					MIA	MOT	LBH	NAZ	RIO	GAT	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG	HOU	SFR	FON
	Penske PC-27	Mercedes-Benz IC108E	Al Unser Jr.	2	22	2	29	15	16	19	3	24	5	17	17	22	6	27	5	6	7	22	27			11th	72
	Penske PC-27	Mercedes-Benz IC108E	Andre Ribeiro	3	17	9	22	DNS	22	20	18	16	15	22	23	28	10	25	7	14	17	13	28			22nd	13
1999					MIA	MOT	LBH	NAZ	RIO	GAT	MIL	POR	CLE	ROA	TOR	MCH	DET	MDO	CHI	VAN	LAG	HOU	SRF	FON
	Penske PC-27B	Mercedes-Benz IC108E	Al Unser Jr.	2	26			24	12							13						15	22	7		21st	26
	Lola B99/00		Al Unser Jr.							12	19	16	5	9	9		15	25	25	25	Wth					21st	26
	Penske PC-27B		Tarso Marques (R)			14	25																			28th	4
	Penske PC-27B			3					9	26		18
	Lola B99/00												24
	Penske PC-27B		Alex Barron													18								24		27th	4
	Lola B99/00		Gonzalo Rodríguez (R)														12				DNS^†					33rd	1
2000					MIA	LBH	RIO	MOT	NAZ	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	CHI	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG	GAT	HOU	SRF	FON
	Reynard 2Ki	Honda HR-0	Gil de Ferran	2	6*	7*	17	9	1	12	9	1	14	6	18	3	2	25	5	2	8	3*	23	3		1st	168
	Reynard 2Ki	Honda HR-0	Hélio Castroneves	3	25	2	24	13	16	16	1	7*	21	16	5*	21	1*	9	20	1*	9	5	6	9		7th	129
2001					MTY	LBH	TEX	NAZ	MOT	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	CHI	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAU	ROC	HOU	LAG	SRF	FON
	Reynard 01i	Honda HR-1	Gil de Ferran	1	2	3	C¹	23	13	7	6	13	4	14*	24	3	2	5	2	8	1*	1*	3*	4	6	1st	199
	Reynard 01i	Honda HR-1	Hélio Castroneves	3	8	1*	C¹	11	2*	26	1*	17	12	19	8	7*	1*	7*	18	12	4	5	6	20	22	4th	141

^† Gonzalo Rodríguez was killed during qualifying for the Laguna Seca race.
¹ The Firestone Firehawk 600 was canceled after qualifying due to excessive g-forces on the drivers.

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