PENSKE RACE REPORT

Ryan Briscoe Leads Team Penske IndyCar Series Sweep at Mid Ohio

PenskeLEXINGTON, Ohio – Ryan Briscoe, driver of the No. 6 Team Penske Dallara/Honda, made a remarkable comeback Sunday, recovering from an early deficit to win the Honda Indy 200 and complete a one-two sweep by Team Penske at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

This victory was Briscoe’s second win in his IndyCar Series career, Team Penske’s seventh win at the legendary 13-turn Ohio road course and the 35th one-two finish in Penske’s storied open-wheel history.

Briscoe, who started second next to teammate and pole-sitter Helio Castroneves, fell behind early as drivers struggled with rain tires on a rapidly drying track. Roger Penske, strategist on the No. 6 car, started the race on rain tires -- as did the rest of the field-- but Penske brought the car into the pits after a majority of the field to change to slick tires after Briscoe slipped from second to fourth place, then quickly had Briscoe come back in, out of sequence, as soon as the fuel window opened. This pit strategy propelled Briscoe into the lead, which he did not relinquish in the final 25 laps of the 85-lap event.

Castroneves scored a second-place result for the squad as he remains in second in the IndyCar series, now just 58 points behind leader Scott Dixon.

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Penske Racing DHL Porsche Wins At Mid-Ohio, Extends Championship Lead

PenskeLEXINGTON, Ohio – Last week, it was the David Brabham/Scott Sharp Acura that ran down the No. 7 Penske Porsche RS Spyder with 90 seconds left to score a victory at Lime Rock Park, but the roles were reversed Saturday in the Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course as Romain Dumas (France) held off Brabham to score the Porsche tandem’s fourth win in six American Le Mans Series races and extend their LMP2 driver points lead to 28.

Dumas, who felt constant pressure from Brabham for the last 30 minutes of the race, could pull away from the Acura when he had an open track, but was slowed traffic around the course, cutting his lead to less than a second several times before the end. The final margin of the LMP2 victory for the Porsche was six-tenths of a second. The two Audi R-10 TDI diesels finished first and second overall and won the LMP1 class.

“These races with the Acura have been very tight since the beginning of the year,” said Dumas, who, with teammate Timo Bernhard (Germany), is looking for the third consecutive LMP2 title for the Penske team. The pair also won the LMP2 championship with their Penske Porsche RS Spyders in 2007, including eight overall wins in 11 races and class podium finishes in every event.

The Penske Racing tandem of Sascha Maassen and Patrick Long finished fourth in class at Mid-Ohio.

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Ryan Newman, Driver of the No. 12 Alltel Dodge, Featured on Team Cam This Week

MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 12 Alltel Dodge, will be this week's featured guest on the PenskeRacing.com Team Cam. The Daytona 500 winner will chat about Sunday’s Allstate 400 at the Brickyard.

Make sure to check out Team Cam with Newman beginning Thursday, July 24 at PenskeRacing.com.