Roger Penske

Roger Searle Penske (born February 20, 1937), nicknamed the Captain, is an American auto racing team owner, businessman and former professional racecar driver. Born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and a 1959 graduate of Lehigh University, he raced sports cars until 1965, when he retired as a driver to concentrate on a Chevrolet dealership in Philadelphia that he had bought with a loan from his father. In 1969 he founded Penske Truck Leasing in Reading, Pennsylvania. He is the founder, chairman and namesake of Penske Corporation, the holding company for his businesses, and he owns Team Penske, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and IndyCar, which he bought from the Hulman family in 2019. As an owner he has won six IndyCar Series championships and five NASCAR Cup Series championships, and in 2019 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.