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Team Penske and Chevrolet Secure Exciting Multi-Year IndyCar Partnership
Highlights
- Team Penske and Chevrolet extend IndyCar partnership for several years
- Collaboration boasts nine Indianapolis 500 victories
- 2026 season featured three wins and three pole positions for Penske
- Chevrolet achieved its 250th IndyCar pole position in September 2026
- Partnership officially began in 1986 with Ilmor Chevrolet V8 engine debut
- GM President Mark Reuss praises trust and commitment in partnership
Team Penske and Chevrolet extend their IndyCar partnership for several years, ensuring the series’ most successful team-manufacturer alliance continues to underpin Penske’s programme beyond 2026.
The collaboration already yields nine Indianapolis 500 victories, with contributions from Rick Mears, Emerson Fittipaldi, Helio Castroneves, Juan Pablo Montoya, Will Power, Simon Pagenaud, and Josef Newgarden.
Roger Penske frames Chevrolet as a partner beyond results, stressing shared standards, trackside execution, and continuity that stabilises operations during strategic and technical change.
The timing matters amid a shifting engine-supplier landscape, including Arrow McLaren’s engine deal and a recent Honda team leadership update that reshapes competitive alignments.
The extension keeps Penske and Chevrolet aligned for several years, cementing IndyCar’s most successful alliance.
Penske opened 2026 on pole at St. Petersburg and closed with victory at Laguna Seca, totalling three wins and three poles, including Phoenix and World Wide Technology Raceway.
Scott McLaughlin’s Laguna Seca NTT P1 Award in September delivered Chevrolet’s 250th IndyCar pole. That milestone complemented ECR’s 15-year Chevrolet alliance, underscoring the marque’s sustained footprint.
Chevrolet reached 250 IndyCar poles in September 2026, via McLaughlin at Laguna Seca.
Since 1986, Penske and Chevrolet have taken 125 wins and 157 poles together. Roots date to 1968 and 1970 Donohue milestones, before the Ilmor Chevrolet V8’s 1986 debut.
Rick Mears scored the engine’s first win at Pocono in 1987 and converted that momentum into the 1988 Indianapolis 500, the Ilmor Chevy’s first victory at the Speedway.
GM president Mark Reuss frames the extension around trust, technical excellence, and a shared mandate to add poles, wins, and more Indianapolis 500 triumphs.
Reuss highlights trust and commitment to technical excellence as the partnership’s foundation.
The renewed deal secures continuity for Penske’s programme as IndyCar evolves technically, reinforcing a benchmark partnership likely to shape competitive narratives across upcoming seasons.
Visual Summary
Penske
🏁
⚡
1968 2026+
Penske 🤝 Chevrolet
Renew IndyCar’s Most Successful Engine
Renew IndyCar’s Most Successful Engine
🏆9
Indy 500 Victories
🚗125
Wins Since 1986
⏱️157
Pole Positions
1968
Penske’s
first Chevy start
Penske’s
first Chevy start
1986
Modern era
begins
Modern era
begins
1988
First Indy 500
Chevy win
First Indy 500
Chevy win
2026
Laguna Seca:
Win & 250th pole
Laguna Seca:
Win & 250th pole
Future:
More trophies await 🤩
“The foundation of trust and technical excellence drives our shared pursuit of every win, every pole, and every Indy 500 trophy to come.”
– Mark Reuss, GM President
– Mark Reuss, GM President
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