44 Facts About Team Penske

Team Penske is an American professional auto racing organization, competing in the NTT IndyCar Series, NASCAR Cup Series, and the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Altogether, Team Penske has earned over 500 victories and over 40 championships in all of auto racing.

Team Penske is a division of Penske Corporation, and is owned and chaired by Roger Penske.

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 the base for the F1 team.

Roger Penske has been involved with IndyCar racing since 1968, when his team first fielded a stock block-powered Eagle with Mark Donohue.

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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 Team Penske announced he would leave CART for the 2002 IRL IndyCar Series season with Chevrolet engines.

Team Penske started the 2008 season poorly but Helio Castroneves posted five top-four 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.

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.

Team Penske ended up finishing the 2010 season with nine wins, thirteen pole positions, and six fastest laps .

On 12 November 2010, Team 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.

Team Penske finished the 2011 season with six victories, all from Will Power, while Castroneves and Briscoe went winless.

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 Team Penske received free engines formally from Ilmor and Chevrolet as Roger Penske has a shares at Ilmor Engineering Ltd.

Team Penske would go on to dominate 2016, filling the top 3 positions in the final standings.

Roger Team Penske's organization claimed its 14th such title and its second in three years .

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.

The partnership with Juncos would be similar to the alliance between Andretti Autosport and the aforementioned Meyer Shank Racing, where Team Penske would provide parts and certain setup data to Juncos and potentially lease one of their chassis to Juncos on a part-time basis.

Roger Team Penske had found the key to win but found a way to run from the competition.

Team Penske debuted a radical new Mercedes-Benz engine at Indy, the 500I.

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.

Team Penske first fielded a blue Sunoco 1967 Chevrolet Camaro driven by Mark Donohue in this series designed for Pony cars like the Ford Mustang.

Team Penske-entered Camaros won the series championship in 1968 and 1969.

Team Penske Racing entered a Lola T70 in the 1966 Can-Am Series for Mark Donohue, resulting in one win at Mosport.

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In 1967, Team Penske Racing entered two Lolas, one for Mark Donohue and one for George Follmer.

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

Roger Team Penske bought a used 512 M chassis that was dismantled and rebuilt.

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, Team 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.

In 2007, Team Penske Motorsports fielded two LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder Evo in the American Le Mans Series.

Team Penske started their 2008 season with an overall win in the 12 Hours of Sebring.

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.

In 2017, it was announced that Team Penske Racing would make a comeback to sportscar racing in IMSA's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the 2018 season.

Team Penske entered the Formula One World Championship from 1974 to 1976.

In 1971, Team Penske had sponsored the second McLaren entry in the 1971 Canadian and US GP, entering Mark Donohue, who took the car to a podium finish.

In 1975, Roger Team Penske mounted a full season attack with the PC1, Donohue managing to score a fifth place in the Swedish GP.

Still, at the end of the year, Team Penske decided to withdraw from the sport to concentrate solely on Indycar racing, selling the remains of his European operations to Gunter Schmid of Germany.

In 1979 Team Penske designed and built the HR100 for wealthy Mexican 'gentleman driver' Hector Rebaque.

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.

Roger Team Penske later confirmed that Ambrose elected not to continue as a co-driver in 2016.

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.

The engine was later banned, which resulted in Team Penske Racing not qualifying a single car in the 1995 Indianapolis 500.

In 2001, Penske Racing crossed a picket-line by fielding the team in the 500, consisting of rookie Helio Castroneves and Gil de Ferran.