![]() ![]() Meyer Shank’s sole full-time driver for 2021, Jack Harvey, is yet to confirm his plans for next season. ![]() Penske is expected to downsize its line-up to three cars next year for Josef Newgarden, Will Power and Scott McLaughlin. Pagenaud finished eighth in this year’s championship but failed to add to his haul of 15 career wins. Our Indianapolis 500 win was a big breakthrough, and we are looking forward to having a consistently competitive program that will have the chance to fight for wins and podiums no matter where we go and I think this line-up will help us do that.” “We have built this program every year, growing with our partners and working to have all the ingredients we need to be competitive. “Next year will be a big year for MSR and I think we have a very strong line-up of drivers between Simon and Helio,” said team co-owner Michael Shank, whose outfit took Castroneves to victory in this year’s Indianapolis 500. "Let's enjoy this first, then we talk about 'five' a week later," Castroneves said with a laugh.The 2016 Ind圜ar champion and 2019 Indianapolis 500 winner will leave Penske and reunite with his former team mate Helio Castroneves at the squad, which will run two cars full-time next season. 5? What about one more full-time season? Meyer Shank wants it, and Castroneves wants it, too. It just proof you still can believe in yourself and make yourself better." I'm so glad I did that because I want to know those young kids, sometimes they think hard work doesn't pay off. "I never stopped dreaming," Castroneves said. Mike and Jim acquiesced his request and Helio rewarded them with something he knew he could accomplish - his fourth Indianapolis 500 victory. We won the championship last year, but I wanted to come back. Photo by: Chris Jones Replacing the rear wing on the car of Helio Castroneves at the Kansas Lottery Indy 300 Helio Castroneves leaves the pits without the. I wanted to keep going at Indy … but I took a different route. When you start racing with three different (classes) in the same race with different speeds, you learn more about passing without damaging the car. "When I moved to the sports car program, I learned so much. "It's not about proving a point," Castroneves said. He’s also the first driver to win another Indianapolis 500 after leaving Penske. There was no visible chip on his shoulder when detailing the past three years with Penske, and finally winning his fourth Borg-Warner but only after leaving the Ind圜ar powerhouse. But when Roger Penske offers you a ride in anything, much less a contract that includes racing at Indianapolis every May, you make the most of it. That's what I was thinking.Ĭastroneves has been very clear from 2017 onwards that he wanted to be back in Ind圜ar. With 25 laps on the tires, I don't think he's going to be able to pass me either. Just like in practice, you have five cars, six cars, everybody lined-up and nobody (is) passing each other. Like I said, when I saw traffic coming before me … I had to get that right. "I knew the potential of my car," Castroneves said. ![]() He timed that move just before Palou reached lapped traffic. He learned again.Ĭastroneves made the move with just under two laps to go, into Turn 1 just like his two previous defeats. Takuma Sato passed him on the frontstretch in 2017 entering Turn 1 too. By Marshall Pruett Novem5:22 AM ET When Helio Castroneves strapped into a Team Penske CART Ind圜ar chassis for the first time on December 8, 1999, he had no idea that first test outing would develop into a relationship destined to last 20 years and produce unimaginable success. The most notable defeat came in 2014, when Ryan Hunter-Reay passed Castroneves on the outside. Helio Castroneves, of Brazil, waits in the pits before a practice session. Palou, a second-year driver from Spain was up against two decades of experience from one of the most accomplished drivers in Indianapolis history, who had found several ways to lose this race over the past decade. Pagenaud is the second driver this season to voluntarily choose to leave Penske. Even as Alex Palou of Chip Ganassi Racing continually challenged him, or even outright took the lead on several occasions, Castroneves never lost sight of it. ![]()
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