Penske Racing Rig Goes up in Flames
Posted by admin on 21 Aug 2008 at 01:43 pm | Tagged as: News, Random
Penske’s Indy racing team suffered disaster early this morning when their transporter truck – en route from the team’s headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina, to Sonoma, California – caught fire at 4 a.m. on Interstate 80 outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. The two Penske personnel on board managed to escape unharmed, but could not extinguish the fire, believed to have been caused by a faulty bearing in one of the trailer’s wheels. They detached the truck cab from the burning trailer and could do nothing more but watch as an estimated $2 million worth of equipment – including two Dallara-Honda race cars – went up in flames.
For those of you that are not total IRL nerds the Penske teams consists of Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe. Castroneves is only 78 points out of the lead from Scott Dixon. It doesn’t seem clear what Penske’s plan of action will be for the race this weekend. Read more here, grandprix.com
