Team Penske
The New York Yankees of Motorsports
Headed by the "Captain" Roger Penske, a former race car driver himself, Team Penske has been competing on the track for 50 years in nearly every type of motorsports the world has to offer. They are considered by many to be the "New York Yankees of Motorsports" with over 400 major race wins, over 480 pole positions, 28 national championships, and 16 Indianapolis 500 victories and 13 IndyCar titles. Throughout the team's history, an impressive lineup of drivers have been behind the wheel including Rick Mears, Al Unser Jr., Bobby Unser, Marco Andretti, Rusty Wallace, Juan Pablo Montoya, and Brad Keselowski, just to name a few.
Today, the Team Penske Verizon IndyCar teams use Pennzoil Ultra Platinum™ inside the Chevrolet power plants for its proven performance at more than 10,000 RPMs. For the NASCAR squads, motor oil can be the difference between winning and losing a race. NASCAR engines have to run at higher speeds longer, so Team Penske use a special formulation of Pennzoil® motor oil inside their Roush-Yates-built engines.
Team Penske Verizon IndyCar Team
Currently, Team Penske fields a lineup of drivers in the Verizon IndyCar Series that rivals no other including three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and fan favorite Hélio Castroneves, motorsport renaissance man Juan Pablo Montoya, 2014 IndyCar Champion Will Power, and newcomer Simon Pagenaud.
In 2015, three of the four drivers finished in the top five of final driver standings racking up three combined wins, including an Indianapolis 500 victory. On top of the historic victory by Juan Pablo Montoya at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the team also amassed 11 Verizon P1 Awards throughout the season.
Team Penske NASCAR Team
The driver duo of Joey Logano in the No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion and Brad Keselowski in the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion have quickly become some of the most dominant competitors on the NASCAR track. Since Brad Keselowski's 2012 Sprint Cup Championship, their wins combined include the Sprint Cup checkered flag 28 times and finishes in the top five in over 100 contests with nearly 6,000 laps led. That includes Joey Logano's landmark 2015 Daytona 500 victory, which made him the second youngest driver to ever win NASCAR's version of the Super Bowl.
Logano and Keselowski also regularly appear in the NASCAR XFINITY Series, splitting duty with Ryan Blaney in the No. 22 Discount Tire Ford Mustang. Since 2013, the rotating team has celebrated over 25 victories, including three straight Owners Point Standing Championships (2013, 2014, and 2015).
Pennzoil Platinum Powers Team Penske to Victory Lane
Title: Pennzoil Platinum Powers Team Penske to Victory Lane
Duration: 3 minutes and 34 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ouHkq1_mU
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Guitar and drum music – rock.
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Pennzoil-Powered Performance.
Team Penske Knows The Best of The Best.
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A brown-haired man wearing a white collared shirt with a Pennzoil patch and Team Penske embroidered on his shirt sits indoors by a race car.
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Tim Cindric. President, Team Penske.
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As a kid my idol was Roger Penske.
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At a race track, a white haired man wearing a yellow racing uniform decorated with company patches, including Pennzoil and Goodyear, shakes people’s hands while crew members unload a dragster from a trailer.
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Roger finds the best brands, the best people and really the best things to represent within our organization.
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A white haired man in Team Penske shirt with Pennzoil logo embroidered on it.
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Roger Penske—Founder and Chairman, Penske Corporation.
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Racing has been a common thread in my life for many years. When you think about highlights in racing, obviously, victories with Rick Mears at Indianapolis, victories in NASCAR with Brad Keselowski in the championship and certainly with Joey Logano as we go forward in 2014.
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Race cars speed around a track. Next, a man in a yellow Pennzoil racing suit, Joey Legano, climbs out of his car and holds the detached steering wheel overhead while people cheer around him.
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That’s why they trust Pennzoil Platinum with Technology.
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A gray-haired man wears a red lab coat over a striped, collared shirt.
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Paul Bastien, Senior Research Engineer.
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We at Pennzoil are always trying to push the edge with our technology and it’s great to work with a team like Penske Racing who is always doing the same. Technology starts from a very clean, natural gas product that gives us the ultimate base oil for formulating high quality products for all of our customers.
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Person in red lab coat holding bottle of Pennzoil Platinum Full Synthetic Motor Oil.
Person in lab working with small glass containers with blue lids.
Lab equipment spinning, revolving.
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So we’ll use a combination of different additive components to give the maximum performance and protection for the specific racing engine.
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It’s motor oil made for complete protection.
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In a large garage, two men stand and talk beside a race car with its hood up. Various company emblems appear on the hood’s underside: a yellow shell outlined in red; a Pennzoil logo and Powered By Ford. Elsewhere, Tim Cindric.
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The benefits of a modern day engine and its engine oil, the benefits that the oil provide that engine really come down to the details.
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A short-haired man wearing a red racing uniform adorned with patches from various company sponsors, including Ford and Shell, sits by a yellow race car.
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Todd Gordon. Crew Chief, Team Penske.
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When you look at race performance and, and what we have to find, we’re looking for tenths of seconds, which can be one horsepower or a half a horsepower.
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Men working on cars.
Man polishing race car.
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Horsepower Protection. Better Fuel Economy. Unsurpassed Wear Protection.
Cleaner Pistons. Extreme Temperature Performance.
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Pennzoil Platinum Technology provides complete protection including maintaining horsepower throughout the race, maintaining our fuel economy throughout the race, unsurpassed wear protection, cleaner pistons and excellent performance in extreme temperatures.
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It’s Motor Oil Made For The Money Lap.
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The money lap is the last lap. What you start the race with, you want to be able to perform at max level at the end of the race.
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Tim Cindric.
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Within Team Penske, we run the 500, 600-mile races. The Pennzoil Platinum Technology has to be able to keep our pistons clean, therefore, our oil clean throughout the race to where we’re, we’re running as hard at the end of that race as we are at the beginning. That separates it from other engine oils.
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Race car driver, Helio Castroneves races his red race car around a track.
Next, a brown-haired man sits indoors by the yellow racecar.
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Travis Geisler. NASCAR Competition Director, Team Penske.
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NASCAR racing is one of the most competitive motorsports in the world. Races are won and lost by fractions of a second.
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A yellow and red Pennzoil- and Shell-sponsored racecar zooms around a track.
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It’s imperative for our vehicles to have complete protection provided by Pennzoil’s Platinum Technology to allow all aspects of our car to perform at the highest levels.
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A short-haired man wears a red racing uniform bearing various sponsor patches, including Pennzoil, Izod, Verizon and others.
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Jonathan Diuguid. Race Engineer, Team Penske.
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In IndyCar racing one of the mandated rules by the series is that the engine has to last for 2500 miles, and so what that means is we’ll keep an engine in the racecar for four to five races.
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Helio leaves the pit area and drives back onto track, continuing race.
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One thing we rely on from Pennzoil Platinum Technology is to have that maximum performance over not just the duration of a race, but the life of the engine which may be four to five races. And an interesting fact is that it’s actually the same engine oil that you can buy off the shelf.
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Two helmeted drivers high-five each other.
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Team Penske Trusts the Revolutionary Pennzoil Platinum with Technology.
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Todd Gordon.
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We trust Pennzoil Platinum Technology to get us to the victory lane.
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Travis Geisler.
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We trust Pennzoil Platinum Technology to help us win races.
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Roger Penske.
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And I trust Pennzoil Platinum in my own garage.
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So should you. Pennzoil – Motor oil reimagined.
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Two bottles of synthetic motor oil stand side by side behind a gleaming silver piston: dark gray Pennzoil Ultra Platinum and light gray Pennzoil Platinum.
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Hashtag Motor Oil Reimagined.
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