In order to better reflect the team’s goals after a wild, disappointing Daytona 500, Penske’s Nascar operations have officially removed the “Team” from their name (formerly “Team Penske”) as of Tuesday morning.
“This is a great day for this operation”, said team owner and rugged individualist Roger Penske. “We will still work to put the four—er, I mean, three—best cars on the track every weekend. But once the cars are ON the track, its every driver for themselves. Four—I mean, three—men enter, one man exits…if he’s lucky.”
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| In order to remove the "TEAM"s from their haulers they used their Penske file. |
“I suggested the change at our team Zoom call on Monday, Mike”, said driver Brad Keselowski, knocked out of a prime chance to win at the Daytona 500. “If its all about the individual here, we need to get rid of the ‘Team’ aspect. After all—there’s no I in team, but there is one in ‘Win’. In fact, there’s an I in ‘Hendrick’, too, now that I think about it.”
Fellow Penske driver Joey Logano, who was also involved in the intrateam drama on the final lap, seemed ambivalent towards the change.
“Penske, Team Penske, it doesn’t really matter to me.”, Logano said. “All I know is that I’ll be here for a very long time, just like Sam Hornish or David Stremme. Those are the names that built this group into the behemoth it is today, not some ARCA reject from Michigan. By the way, why don’t people like me?”
Roger Penske added that he considered changing the organization’s name back to “Penske Racing South”, but he didn’t want to deal with a four-hour long phone call to Rusty Wallace to reacquire the rights to the name.
“The only thing that’s constant in racing is change”, Penske added, saying that “Keselowski, Logano, (Ryan) Blaney, DiBenn—no, just those other three guys—are going to do battle on the track every single weekend, and whoever comes out on top will get the ultimate prize—a one year contract extension.”