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Look Roger, you’re not going to avoid the appearance of wrongdoing when:
-You own Indianapolis Motor Speedway
-You own Indycar
-You own the best Indycar team
-You have deep roots & more pull with Ilmor Engineering-Chevrolet – one of Indycar’s two engine manufacturers – than anybody else.
It certainly doesn’t help your image Newgarden won the 2023 Indy 500 after a ticky-tacky red flag and then Newgarden went on to start the 2024 season by breaking rules (aka cheating) to finish P1.
At the very least, it just looks terrible and always will. And maybe there’s smoke here, who knows.
I think IndyCar would be better if Penske gave up the racing team to spend his time, money, and efforts working to improve the series. The series would get well needed TLC to boost the marketing of other races and there’d be no appearance of impropriety shadowing over the entire sport.
before somebody points it out, I know that Penske will never do it.
I guess no good deed goes unpunished. Penske is a race car owner. He stepped up in a badly needed way to likely save the Indy Car Series. This whole push to pass issue is way overblown. For sure the team screwed up and it it gives folks a lot to talk about. Some body as brilliant as Penske isn’t gonna cheat, especially when it is in plain view for everyone to see. I was at the St Pete race. His use of the PTP had no bearing on the outcome. He had the dominate car over the last 25 laps. Just like Indy. I don’t root for the Penske drivers but enough already.
What the scandal did (and is doing) is showing Penske and his organizations true character. The actual infraction, as you say, was probably minor, though I do think it helped Josef win. What happened later was the problem. There is no way that they could have not known the software was there, or thought the rule changed, as Josef said. Instead of owning up, saying “yep, we were trying to find every edge. This software happened to be left installed and we took advantage. We’re sorry.” They tried to act like we were all stupid, and Roger is still trying to act like we’re stupid, by saying what’s the big deal? It was an accident? Geez guys lighten up! Even at his advanced age, apparently Roger still needs a lesson in learning how to act like a grown man.
LOL, he didn’t “save” the Indy Car Series, there certainly were other/bigger options that wanted to buy Indy Car. Liberty Media for one had interest and was shot down because the H-G family still had hurt feelings over F-1 leaving even though they didn’t even own F-1 at that time… The real problem was it was never “put up for sale” so we don’t exactly know everyone who would have been interested but there would have been plenty of interested parties.
Much respect for and appreciation of Roger Penske.
Matthew B. How can you say it helped him win at St Pete. Were you at the race. I was sitting in the first turn where his use of PTP would have been most noticeable. He absolutely ran away from everyone for the last 25-30 laps when he didn’t use it. I’m not a Team Penske fan only because they have won so much over the years. I’ve never sat in the stands and rooted for Newgarden, Power, Helio or anyone else but this issue is so overblown. I have always rooted for Andretti cars except for Rossi who is just not likeable but Michael’s calling out of Roger on multiple fronts has been totally unnecessary. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Id hate to see where things would be if Roger hadn’t been in charge during the Covid season.
Joe A. Nobody knows IndyCar better than Penske. 20 Indy 500 wins pretty much seals the deal on that discussion. Liberty Media. Really? IndyCar has the best racing hands down. Not even a close 2nd.