Roger Penske

Roger Penske

Nation:	United States
Automobile world championship
First start:	1961 USA Grand Prix
Last start:	1962 USA Grand Prix
Constructors
1961 John Wyatt Racing 1962 Dupont Team Xerex
statistics
World Cup balance:	-
Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Roger Penske (born February 20, 1937 in Shaker Heights , Ohio ) is an American businessman and owner of the automobile racing team Team Penske .

Career

In 1958 Penske began trading and racing in racing cars. He was very successful in both. He won a few races by 1965 and was voted Driver of the Year 1960 by Sports Illustrated magazine . Penske took part in two automobile world championship races and won a NASCAR race.

After the end of his active career, Penske initially concentrated on the economic side of his racing team and in the following years built up an international company empire based on commercial vehicles and car trading. From 1974 to 1976 he also used a team in Formula 1.

In the USA he sells the small car Smart from Daimler AG . Penske also planned to take over the Saturn auto brand from General Motors . This failed because Penske was unable to find an international partner for the takeover.

Companies and investments

Roger Penske is the owner or partner of various companies primarily located in the automotive sector (selection):

• Owner of Team Penske , Penske Automotive Group, Penske Truck Leasing, Penske Logistics, Truck-Lite Europe (FER Fahrzeugelektrik) and Tamsen .
• Member of the Board of Directors of General Electric .
• Partner in Ilmor .
• VM Motori SpA partner

Others

• Penske is married and has five children.
• He was inducted into the American Hall of Fame in 1995 and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1998.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1961	John M. Wyatt	Cooper T53	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1962	Dupont Team Zerex	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				2	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1961
								8th
1962
								9

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1963	North American Racing Team	Ferrari 330TRI LM	Pedro Rodríguez	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1961	Brumos Porsche Company	Porsche 718 RS / 61	Bob Holbert	5th place and class win
1962	Briggs Cunningham	Cooper T57 Monaco	Bruce McLaren	Rank 5
1963	Mecom Racing Team	Ferrari 250 GTO	Augie Pabst	Rank 4
1964	McKean Chevrolet Inc.	Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport	Jim Hall	Rank 17

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1961	Brumo's Porsche	Porsche 718	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
			5
1962	Roger Penske Briggs Cunningham	Cooper T57 Fiat-Abarth 1000 Bialbero	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
			DNF	DNF	5										DNF
1963	John Mecon NART	Ferrari 250 GTO Ferrari 330TRI	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
			2		4th							DNF						8th
1964	McKean Chevrolet Inc.	Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
				17th

Web links

Commons : Roger Penske  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Penske Corporation
• Team Penske
• Penske Automotive
• Penske Truck Leasing
• Roger Penske in the Motorsports Hall of Fame
• Roger Penske at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (at the US Grand Prix 1961 in a Cooper-Climax and 1962 in a Lotus-Climax )
2. ↑ Not a buyer: GM subsidiary Saturn is about to go out. Financial Times Deutschland , October 1, 2009, archived from the original on October 3, 2009 ; Retrieved June 19, 2016 . 
3. ↑ GM to buy 50 pct of VM Motori from Penske Corp . Reuters , July 16, 2007, accessed June 19, 2016.