Team Penske just picked up their record extending 19th Indianapolis 500 victory in last Sunday’s 107th Running. On Memorial Day, Ryan Blaney gave Penske their third Coca-Cola 600 win. However, for the first time ever, they accomplished that same feat in the same year.

Despite 22 combined wins between the two prestigious races, Penske has never won both in the same year. This time, he has.

“Well, I guess when I think back, I think back about coming here in 1951 with my dad to see the first race of my own with him, and of course never realized that many, many years would pass and I would be here today, our family as the steward of the track, and also to have 19 wins,” Penske said.

“But we’re competitors. We love this business. We’re committed to this track, to this series, to make it better. And when I see the people today and the demographics and the kids and 70,000 people here on Carburetion Day, and we had the biggest crowd we had since probably 2016. You saw it yourself. Amazing.

“But we go on to Detroit, and we’re excited because we’re trying to make this series not just Indianapolis, but it’s all around the country. I think we’ve got the fastest cars, the high tech cars. I think our group of drivers are amazing and teams that’s competitive. We just want to take this on to many, many key cities around the United States and maybe other places.

“Next week to be able to come to Detroit. It’s ironic last Wednesday or Thursday the mayor and the City Council president took the speed limit signs down to 25 miles an hour in front of the GM Building and put up 200 mile-an-hour signs, so that’s what I’m counting on for next week.”

Penske has been bar none, on top of their game over the last two years. It all started off last February when Joey Logano won the first ever race in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Two weeks later, Austin Cindric gave Penske a great birthday present by winning the Daytona 500.

Nine months later, Joey Logano gave Penske a Cup Series title. Two months before that, Will Power gave Penske an NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship.

Both sides of Penske came into 2023 as the defending series championships in the top ladder of their respective motorsports cycle.

Then Newgarden goes out and wins Indy. Blaney won Charlotte.

For an organization like Team Penske, greatness isn’t something that’s taken lightly. It’s something that’s not achieved for, it’s expected.

“I think we’ve tried it for 31 years, so it’s about time,” Penske said last November from the Phoenix Raceway after earning his 3rd title as a Cup Series owner.

Penske has built an enormous empire employing thousands of humans. Everything he touches turns to gold. It’s not a coincidence. It’s because Penske’s fingerprints are all over everything he does. He doesn’t take anything lightly and always surrounds himself with the best.

That’s why for as successful as a year that 2022 and now 2023 are, it’s something that’s not at all surprising in the very least.

Penske won 9 of the 17 INDYCAR races last season including a victory by all three drivers. They’ve won two of the last three INDYCAR races as they head into Detroit this weekend.

In the Cup Series, all three drivers also won in 2022 and 2 of the 3 already this year.