He is the most successful owner of the Indianapolis 500 with 19 victories. He developed one of the most successful teams in Ind圜ar Series and NASCAR racing. Penske continued racing until 1965, when he retired as a driver, to concentrate on his first Chevrolet dealership in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rookie Mario Andretti stepped in for Penske to take that test. He never ran the Indianapolis 500: he was offered a rookie test at Indianapolis with the Dean Van Lines team, but turned it down. He competed in two Formula One Grands Prix and won a NASCAR Pacific Coast Late Model race at Riverside in 1963.
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Sports Illustrated named him Sports Car Club of America Driver of the Year in 1961. Penske made his first professional racing start at the now-abandoned Marlboro Motor Raceway in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Penske's first racing venture was in hillclimbing, but then ran road course racing in Porsches. He graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1955 and is a 1959 graduate of Lehigh University, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. As a teenager he bought older cars, repaired them and sold them at a profit from his family's home in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, Jay, was a successful corporate executive for a metal fabrication company and encouraged his son to become an entrepreneur. Penske was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1937. He is well-known through his ownership of Team Penske, DJR Team Penske, the Penske Corporation, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Ind圜ar, and other automotive-related businesses. Roger Searle Penske (born February 20, 1937) is an American businessman and entrepreneur involved in professional auto racing and a retired professional auto racing driver, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
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