Posted on 06/07/2009 8:41:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Great article.
As a follow-up, I’d like to recommend going on ROADandTRACK, and do a search for their story called, “Inside Penske Racing.” It appeared in their June magazine, and that may be another way to get to it.
For those of you who do not know about Roger Penske: in his prime, he was one of America’s greatest car racers in NASCAR, Indianapolis or IndyCars, and Grand Am.
Today, he owns a massive 375,000 sq ft warehouse in which all three of his racing teams and cars are designed and developed, and then worked on, sometimes for days at night, until everything is put up to spec.
His all-in-one shop idea has paid off in spades as Penske Racing Teams have recorded 14 wins at the Indy 500. To understand just how astonishing these victiories happen to
Penske Racing Enterprize has been so successful that his Indy cars have won 14 races at the Indianapolis 500 Speedway. This is an insurmountable record as the closest car company to Penski only had three wins.
One thing. I don’t believe Penske ever drove in NASCAR (at least not that I can recall in my 20 years of watching) but he has been involved as an owner for a long time. In fact he is really the man who made Michigan International Speedway a success.
You are such a font of wisdom......and I do not say that facetiously.
What a leap..............from “birther” analysis to NASCAR.
I thank you for all your insightful and knowledgeable posts.
I think you define “Renaissance Man”.
Penske entered the 1963 NASCAR Grand National Series in 1963, winning five races driving a Corvette Chaparral GS. In 1964, Penske set the motorsports world on fire. Competing at the Bahamas Speed Week, he drove a Corvette Grand Sport to win the Nassau Tourist Trophy. He then drove a Jim Hall Chaparral to defeat contenders Bruce McLaren, Dan Gurney, and A. J. Foyt for the Nassau Trophy. He retired from racing at this point, buying a Chevrolet dealership in Pennsylvania. He returned to racing briefly, entering the 1966 Sebring race in a Corvette Grand Sport.
I think that Penske will discover that he will have no problem selling his cars as many people are now deciding to never buy another GM or Chrysler product.
Hope he has the cars built in states with ‘Right to Work’ laws.
Can not complain about any Ford we own/have owned. We keep them until they can’t go anymore. Have a 2009 Ford Escape that I just love. We also have a 1990 Ford Bronco that keeps going and going.
THREAD BUMP.
OK thanks. His Nascar career mostly took place before I was born in 64. In any case he’s a well known name in this part of Michigan due to his involvement in racing and MIS.
Penske did, but retired in 1965, which is probably why you don’t remember him.
Penske was a contemporary of Fireball Roberts, and if you know about Roberts, then you also know about Smokey Yunick, his manager.
When will we see the first “Saturn” racing in NASCAR?
That would be the Obama-Sinclair model..
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