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Penske cheating scandal: IndyCar pre-500 black eye explained

Motor racing's Super Bowl is here. It's race week at the Indianapolis 500, the world's largest single-day sporting event dating back to 1911, and everything leading up to this year's great American race has been unforgettable.

But there's plenty that Roger Penske, owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the IndyCar Series, would indeed like to forget. Penske also owns the Team Penske IndyCar team, which competes in the series he owns at the track he owns, and for the second time since April of 2024, his team has been caught cheating. Two of its three cars, including the one driven by back-to-back and defending Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden, have been booted to the back of the field for the start of Sunday's big race.