Roger Penske
Chronology
1937 | Born February 20 in Shaker Heights, Ohio |
1958 | Drives first official race in the SCCA National at Marlboro Motor Raceway, Maryland |
1959 | Wins first race at SCCA Regional at Lime Rock, Connecticut |
1963 | Wins NASCAR Grand National race |
1964 | Wins Nassau Trophy, Nassau Tourist Trophy, and Governor's Trophy |
1965 | Retires from race-car driving to run dealership in Philadelphia |
1966 | Launches Penske Racing; debuts as team owner at Sebring |
1969 | Penske Racing wins 24 Hours of Daytona |
1972 | Penske Racing wins first Indianapolis 500 |
1973 | Team Penske wins first NASCAR race at Riverside, California |
1974 | Penske Racing enters Grand Prix Formula One racing |
1975 | Mark Donohue, Penske's driver, dies in crash during Formula One practice; Penske Racing wins both NASCAR races at Darlington |
1976 | Penske Racing wins Austrian Grand Prix with driver John Watson |
1976 | Penske abandons Formula One to focus on IndyCar racing |
1979 | Penske driver Rick Mears wins pole position for every ovaltrack in IndyCar racing as well as wins Indianapolis 500 |
1981 | Penske driver Bobby Unser wins Indianapolis 500 |
1984 | Mears wins second Indianapolis 500 of career, fourth for Penske Racing |
1985 | Penske driver Danny Sullivan wins team's fifth Indianapolis 500 |
1987 | Al Unser wins Indianapolis 500 with car chassis taken from a hotel-lobby display |
1988 | Mears wins Penske Racing's seventh Indianapolis 500 |
1991 | Mears becomes one of three drivers to win four Indianapolis 500s |
1993 | Penske driver Emerson Fittipaldi posts team's ninth Indianapolis 500 win |
1994 | Al Unser, Jr., wins pole position and wins Indianapolis 500; Penske drivers post top-three finishes in five races, win twelve of sixteen races, and earn ten pole positions |
2001 | de Ferran wins second CART FedEx Series Championship; Penske drivers Helio Castroneves and de Ferran post top-two finishes at Indianapolis 500; Penske announces this will belast year Penske Racing will compete in CART |
2002 | Racing in the Indy Racing League (IRL), Castroneves wins Penske Racing's twelfth Indianapolis 500 |
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