{"id":113680,"date":"2025-09-02T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113680\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:28:10","slug":"indycar-star-power-leaves-team-penske-after-17-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113680\/","title":{"rendered":"IndyCar star Power leaves Team Penske after 17 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/team-penske\/36470\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Team Penske<\/a> has announced it will end its 17-season partnership with double IndyCar champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/will-power\/829451\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Will Power<\/a> now that the 2025 campaign has finished.<\/p>\n<p>Power joined the team in 2009 following his rookie season with KV Racing Technology, and they went on to forge one of North America\u2019s most successful racing partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>It saw Power win the 2014 and 2022 titles, claim 42 race wins including the 2018 Indianapolis 500, plus a record-breaking 71 pole positions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the 2025 championship has not been Penske\u2019s best, as Power was its highest-placed driver in ninth while off-track the outfit fired two top executives following a technical breach at Indy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been the honour of my life to drive for Roger and the Penske organisation,&#8221; said Power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have accomplished so much together, and I will always be grateful for my time with the team and my team-mates who have supported me along the way. After much consideration, I felt like a change for me was the right move at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/will-power-team-penske.jpg\" alt=\"Will Power, Team Penske\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Will Power, Team Penske<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Jake Galstad \/ Lumen via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet known where 44-year-old Power will go next, but team owner Roger Penske believes 2026 is the right time for his squad to start afresh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we sat down to talk about our future together, we felt that it was time for him to make a change beginning with next season,&#8221; said Penske.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has been an outstanding driver and team-mate for our organisation. His results speak for themselves, and we wish him the very best in the phase of his career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No replacement driver has been named, but most paddock whispers point to AJ Foyt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/david-malukas\/867148\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">David Malukas<\/a>, 23, as a potential successor.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Penske has announced it will end its 17-season partnership with double IndyCar champion Will Power now that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,5856,81023,806,805,803,804,6317,81024,85,48760,25988],"class_list":["post-113680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-indycar","tag-indycar-star-power-leaves-team-penske-after-17-seasons","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-superspeedway","tag-sports","tag-team-penske","tag-will-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}