What are the possibilities for the Penske version of Indianapolis?

By carrying purchaser of Indianapolis circuit and the IndyCar SeriesThe group Penske made the coup of the century. The entity led by Roger Penske, sacred monster of American motorsport, thus offers itself a new string to its bow in addition to its racing teams IndyCar, Nascar, IMSA or even Supercars (in association with DJR).

With the Indianapolis complex, it is a true myth of world automobile competition that Penske will now be in charge, a track which mainly hosts the IndyCar Series (500 miles and Grand Prix), the Nascar with the Brickyard 400 being “only” arrived in 1994.

Indianapolis also hosted the F1 between 2000 and 2007 for the return of the discipline on the other side of the Atlantic, before arriving at COTA in 2012.

A circuit which will also be integrated into the Intercontinental GT Challenge calendar with the penultimate 2020 round scheduled for next October. An attractive schedule, but in the mind of Roger Penske, no door is closed for the development of IMS in the future.

“When we look at the speedway itself, the investment of 100 million dollars that was made a few years ago before the 100th edition of the 500 miles, has given a considerable change, comments Roger Penske.

We want to add capacity because there are more fan zones. What can we use for this? Can we organize a 24 hour race here? Can we have a Formula 1 race here?

This is a major asset. The tradition (of IndyCar) was broken by adding the Nascar race, we're obviously going to support that, because they've been racing here for 27 years. So I'm looking at all of this to see what we can do. »

The idea of ​​a race weekend bringing together Nascar and IndyCar cannot be ruled out according to the boss. “I think it was interesting to see (Josef) Newgarden playing around what they call the Roval in Charlotte several weeks ago, and I think it was pretty exciting, continues the American.

I think some of the fans have never seen an Indy car on an oval or a race track. I am willing to take risks. No risk, no reward in many cases. These are the things that Mark (Miles, Chairman and CEO of Hulman & Company) and his team will be looking at. But I wouldn't say it's impossible. »