Talk:Team Penske/Archive 1

Managed by Travis Penske??
In the opening paragraph, it is stated that Penske Racing is managed by Penske's son Travis. As a long time open wheel/IRL fan, I have never heard this. Roger Penske is personally involved with the IRL side of the team. Their web site mentions Walter P. Czarnecki as the vice-chairman, Tim Cindric as the president, and Don Miller as the president of Penske Racing south. There is no mention of Travis Penske. --rogerd 13:43, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Penske Racing #12 history clean up
I cleaned up the part of #12 history on the article. The #12 part A was about history before penske, and was not needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Halo 31887 (talk • contribs)


 * I just added it back on there. It is still part of the team's history and contains relevant info. -- D -Day I'm all ears How can I improve? 20:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:34, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Marlboro
I re-wrote the Marlboro sentence, because it was misleading. It was well-known that the MSA was looming, and by 2007, they would have to remove tobbaco brand names from the cars. However, Penske still receives Phillip Morris/Marlboro money to this day. The cars, just like F1 cars had done before, are simply painted in such a fashion to get the idea across. To suggest that Marlboro is no longer "sponsoring" the team is misleading. Because really they are indirectly.

Also, Marlboro was on Al Unser Sr's Indy-only entry at the 1989 Indy 500. Marlboro was full-time sponsor of Emerson Fittipaldi at Patrick Racing. In an unusual "double," Marlboro wanted their logos on 2 cars. Patrick had 2 Marlboro cars at Indy in '87, but not '88. Marlboro simply went to the best team out there who was willing to add a third car for Indy. When Patrick reorganized after the '89 season, Fittipaldi took Marlboro with him to Penske. So in order to have 2 Marlboro cars, Emmo and Danny Sullivan both had Marlboro cars for 1990. Sully's former Miller sponsorship went to Patrick's new Alfa team in a sort of "sponsor trade" since they have a parent company in common. Doctorindy (talk) 00:45, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

1994 CART IndyCar World Series
I modified this section to clarify the nameplates on the engines used by Penske Racing during the 1994 season. The only race in which Mercedes Benz livery appeared on Penske cars or Ilmor engines was the Indianapolis 500. The article previously incorrectly mentioned "Ilmor -Mercedes Benz" engines were used during the entire season. This was not correct. At the end of the 1993 season Ilmor ended its association with Chevrolet and at the beginning of the 94 season, all Ilmor 2.65 liter Indy car engines were badged "Ilmor Indy V8" Unfortunately for both Chevrolet and Mercedes, the marketing benefits of 11 of the 12 wins enjoyed by Penske racing that year were lost to both manufacturers. At the beginning of the 1995 season, all Ilmor Indy car engines were re-badged "Mercedes Benz" on the cam covers. AHIAPRP (talk) 06:54, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

External links modified
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External links modified
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Confusion regarding chassis
Hi all,

I cleaned up the CART and IndyCar race results so that they looked a bit more visually appealing, but I'm discovering that for many seasons past users have just lumped both the Penske and the March or Lola chassis together under the same row. Whenever I can I try to separate the chassis and give them their own row, even if it doubles the size of the chart.

My problem is that there are several seasons in the 1980s where I just don't know which chassis was used at which event. In 1987, for example, the season page details who used which chassis at each event, so I could rely on that to rearrange the race results. But in 1986, I have no idea, and that's why they're still lumped together in one row. A similar problem is with the engines, but that comes up less often (I separated the Ilmor and the Mercedes engines in the 1994 race results and gave each their own row, for example).

Anybody have any idea what specific chassis Penske ran back in the '80s at each event? Or even why Penske didn't commit to his own chassis during this time? I'm genuinely curious.

Rocks with Salt (talk) 15:49, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Try this link. Be careful, though, grey color means the car didn't race, but the site doesn't tell you the difference between DNS, DNQ and DNA. Pc13 (talk) 17:35, 18 July 2017 (UTC)