News about Roger Penske

Australian racer Will Power said he didn't know Team Penske's push-to-power system was tampered with until after the IndyCar race in Long Beach last weekend

Multiple former teammates told The Associated Press that Gil de Ferran, the 2003 Indianapolis 500 champion and holder of the closed-course land speed record, died on Friday while racing with his son at The Concourse Club in Florida. He was 56 years old at the time. At the private course in Opa-Locka, Florida, Brazilian driver Tony Kanaan said he was with his son, Luke, when he pulled over and said he wasn't feeling well. Kanaan said de Ferran appeared to have suffered a heart attack and could not be revived. When de Ferran won the 2003 Indy 500 for Roger Penske, it was his third straight victory in the 'Greatest Spectacle in Racing' for Penske, who has now won a record 19 victories in the storious Memorial Day weekend race.

Penske Entertainment, which owns the track, is expected to sell a new car to Robin Matthews, according to a Indianapolis Motor Speedway spokesperson - even in the event of a collision. However, the wheel went soaring across the fence and the corner of the grandstand before landing in the parking garage, where it smashed Matthews' Chevrolet Cruze.

Roger Penske, the IndyCar Series and team's chairman, has said he is positive that series investigators will look at what caused a wheel to break loose in the Indianapolis 500, which resulted in sailing over the catch fence and grandstands before landing on a parked vehicle. 'We haven't had a wheel come off in a long time,' Penske said. We were very lucky that we didn't have a bad accident.' Even in the event of a collision, the cars are supposed to have a tether that holds the wheel.

The race, which was 107th in Indianapolis, came to a halt 15 laps shy of the finish on Sunday. Felix Rosenqvist lost control and crashed a wall in front of Kyle Kirkwood's Honda. Kirkwood was spun out of control and into the wall, flipping him upside down with sparks flying. At turn 2, the left rear waded over the fence, causing the wheel to strike the car's bumper in the parking lot.