Michael does not have a poker face at all , still my favorite Indy driver

Roger Penske looses credibility when those responsible were not fired and drivers who pushed the button should get benched for at least one or two races.

This is gold. Nice to hear Michael's side of the story. The other owners need to unite and tell Penske to sell the series or his racing team. The conflict of interest is off-the-scale bad.

Whether he knew or not, it’s his team, his responsibility. Any boss or leader is responsible for the actions of his or her employees. The fact Penske didn’t hold anyone accountable, and make an example of them makes me think he did know.

I’d like to think Roger didn’t know. Based on his complaints of his drivers being wrecked, and his defense of his drivers who have wrecked others, I’m not sure that the culture in that organization is a healthy one. I’ll leave it at this, that Penske Racing has done damage to themselves by not being transparent, by making excuses. Seems symptomatic of a bigger problem.

Great job Kenny. Michael Andretti 🏆

Michael Andretti my all-time Favorite CART driver.

Great interview. Thank you. ☮

Might not been known in the US, but Scott McLaughlin whilst driving for Penske in the V8 supercars in Australia was embroiled in one of our sport's biggest cheating scandals. In the 2019 Bathurst 1000 (our Daytona 500 / Indy 500) whilst under a safety car, the second Penske car slowed down and held the field behind him 40 seconds so that the lead Penske car (driven by McLaughlin} could fill with fuel and get fresh tyres without loosing track position. McLaughlin went on to win the race. In the aftermath, and amongst numerous calls to disqualify the team, it was found that the second car was ordered by the team to deliberately slow down, and the team were handed a $250k fine, with the second car penalised to the back of the field. Several weeks later it was found that the motor that was fitted to the 17 car (driven by McLaughlin) in qualifying also had an illegal amount of valve lift, resulting in another $30k fine, and stripping the team of Pole. At the time it caused quite the uproar in Australia with allegations that the only reason that they weren't disqualified due to legal threat. I'm not familiar enough with what happened in this circumstance, just saying that this team cheating is not unheard of.

Kenny that interview was as badass as the Andretti’s are.

Push to pass worked like a charm at the Indy 500 this year!

I was sitting in the old Tower Terrace section at Indy in I believe 1990 when Michael passed Rick Mears on the outside going into turn 1 with 10 laps to go and the crowd went wild. The following lap Mears passed Michael in the same exact spot on the outside of turn 1. The crowd erupted. One of my best memories at Indy. Michael was a beast behind the wheel. The year Micheal went to F1 I didn't miss a race on satellite T.V. I was his biggest fan. Too bad the F1 career didn't work out for Michael.

Thank you Michael !

I agree with Michael. Roger has always been very innovative especially in the Kart days when he helped right the rule book. . But that's racing own up too it

The cheating incident was very bad. Penske was punished accordingly. They got severely penalized in a way thst hasn’t been seen in decades. 2 DQs fines and suspending key personnel for the most important month on the calendar. What else other than banning drivers or team members permanently can they do?

Respectfully done interview. Nuff said.

Great interview, I agree entirely w Michael on this ..stand up guy ! Just come clean and move on …

Thank you for a great video and the information loved racing all of my life but know days not so much . It really breaks my heart so much to see what is happening in racing know days I’m not sure of what is going to happen in the future of professional racing very sad . God bless one and all Kenny wallce Michael Mario Andretti

Not convinced Indycar forgot to turn on push-to-pass in morning warm up. Teams test theirs at that time to ensure it is working properly and would have complained immediately. I believe a whistle-blower blew the whistle and this was the method used to validate the whistle-blower.

Push to pass is just plain stupid to begin with. Just give them the extra HP all the time. The cars are grossly underpowered in the first place.

"Unfair Advantage"? Maybe, maybe not, but it does call into question his ownership of the series AND its most important track----

Fair statements by Michael and 100% agree they absolutely would have used it at Long Beach. The drivers made the situation far worse with their BS press conference trying to spin it. Michael is right they should have come clean-this issue is far from over at this point Indycar is looking at the telemetry of every single restart and probably going back into last season also. Penske should take full responsibility and sell the team or the series which is in very bad shape and this mess is magnified 1000X since it is the series owner

The racing seemed better with the older cars. Yes some not so much but I like a drivers car. By that I mean the driver skill means a lot. Now it seems the car is an engineers car. The engineers tell the drivers what to do like a robot and they do it. It’s more boring a lot more now as well, at least to me.

I didn't even recognize him until he spoke

I can't imagine that Roger Penske does not know everything that is going on. He is like the Emperor from Star Wars.

"If you're not cheating, you're not trying." - Ancient F1 Proverb.

I don't think this is all of the story. I highly recommend reading the Racer magazine article

Push to pass is stupid it’s all about WFO with your right foot! Smokey Yunick taught Roger well.

For died in the wool IndyCar fans, I'm sure it's move on. For a lot of other people, this is a real black eye on IndyCar and Penske. I think they've done all the punishing they need to do. But they got to do a lot of work before many people are going to really really trust IndyCar again.

I BELIEVE EVERYTHING MICHAEL SAYS. NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.

Anything that limits the power or boosts it temporarily is rubbish. The Drivers foot is the only limiter for power

Indy kinda died when AJ Foyt couldn't drive or get out of the car and bang on the transmission to get it to shift with a hammer.

What is push to pass?

Everybody cheats from grassroots to the professional ranks sometimes people get breaks and sometimes they don’t if you ain’t looking for an advantage over your competitors, you’re not working hard enough

Looks a lot like Mario's trophy room in PA.

Also….why offer a contract to one driver knowing you were pursuing another. 🙄

The only person that should have spoken about this should have been Roger Penske, not his drivers or anyone else.

Get the stupid wings off the cars and then there is no need for push to pass. Too much turbulence off the wings. Not enough driver in the formula.

Herman rules

Ryan preece is a superstar 🕺👊🧢🪠☝️🪮

Turns out "The Captain" Penske is actually more of a pirate 😂

I think people are misled because they drivers told their "stories" about what they said happened. However, there is ownership in the stories, which when I hear their stories, I hear them saying "we did cheat and we did get caught." It couldn't have been said more loudly or clearly. They determined it was an acceptable option and well worth the risk.

MAYBE YOU ALL SHOULD LISTEN TO JR HILDEBRAND’s podcast and AJ Foyt.

How much longer is the media (Wallace) going to carry on with this story? It's Indy 500 time and now is the time to prepare for the race, not rehash old news, not as old as Wallace who brings nothing to this "story".

If he didn't know he's still responsible. He half owned the V8 Supercars team DJR PENSKE which Scotty Mac used to drive for. They were caught and disqualified from their Bathurst win when it was found their engines were illegal. DJR had never been caught cheating in their decades of racing until Penske came down here. I think Penske have a culture of cheating from the top down.

When has an Andretti ever admitted anything?

Tech inspection didn’t catch it. They should have caught it. If it got past tech inspection, tech inspectors should be called on the carpet for it. They’re not doing their job. And who knows what else they are missing that might be safety related.

If Penske fired someone Andretti would hire that person in an instant.

How do you become that consistent at being that dominant over 50 years, using multiple different engineers and different cars without doing something shady. If Roger Penske is the "honest guy" that everyone thinks he is then when they got caught, and whether it was an accident or on purpose, he should have told his employees at Indycar (because he does own the very entity that busted him) "be quiet and I'll make a public announcement." And in that Public announcement, he could have said "Its been brought to our attention by my organization that there was a discrepancy with some technical aspects of the car, therefor in the fairness of the sport we at Penske Racing is voluntarily withdrawing our win and awarding it Pato O'Ward's team." If Roger had done that he would have come out looking like a Hero. Instead, he pulled the same shit he pulled on Mario Andretti in 1981 at Indy, and the same crap he pulled on Kevin Cogan in 1982, Its about Roger and his greed. Instead, he allows himself to "get busted" by his own officiating body. Keep in mind that the fine went right back to him too. He basically wrote himself the check.

Another racing drama story. Everyone does it ,all race teams ,in every form of racing do this ..let's be honest Kenny. 😊

Today’s Cup cars are spec cars. Just another way for NASCAR to make money by licensing companies for the right to produce parts. High tech race cars are boring.

Am I to believe that Michael never cheated? Or just haven't got caught.

Years ago Honda rented satellite time and tuned their suspensions and engines in formula 1 and I have no doubt that's being done in all major racing programs.

Move on from this. You can comment and say what you think they did or didn't so at the end of day talk about something else.

So, did Roger Penske know they were doing this? My guess is not.

I don't know. Whatever. Its over, I don't care anymore, let's move on

Roger thought all he had to do was repave IMS and renovate the bathrooms once he bought the series.

Now I have to really question the finish to last years Indy 500! That was the perfect place to have this happen! Yet no one is even bringing that up?! Hello! This is Roger Penske we're talking about here.

Penske has always been a cheater , for many many years , so if you think they are this squeaky clean organization, ah they aren't. The fact they did get caught and were penalized speaks volumes that just because Penske owns the series , doesn't mean he gets a free pass all the time

Cindric Blaney and Logano might end up disqualified sometime later this year

Penske wouldn’t cheat?!! Kenny!! Then I’m not old and grey either !! 😂

Penske is the biggest cheat in racing

2 Crybabies 1 podcast. Both of you come from great families, but ride the coat tails of family members.

More Andretti whining. 1.9 seconds does not make a 90 lap race. No wonder F1 doesn't want anything to do with the Andretti name.