{"id":36197,"date":"2026-05-25T11:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36197"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:27:10","slug":"roger-penske-just-misses-record-21st-indy-500-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/roger-penske-just-misses-record-21st-indy-500-win","title":{"rendered":"Roger Penske just misses record 21st Indy 500 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/05\/24\/PDTN\/90246854007-indy-500-photofinish.jpg?width=660&amp;height=357&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The closest finish in Indy 500 history: Meyer Shank's Rosenqvist beats Team Penske's Malukas to the flag.\" width=\"547\" height=\"296\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>The closest finish in Indy 500 history: Meyer Shank&#8217;s Rosenqvist beats Team Penske&#8217;s Malukas to the flag.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Indianapolis<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Two one hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">That\u2019s how close Bloomfield Hills-based, 89-year-old Roger Penske came to winning his 21st Indianapolis 500 Sunday \u2014 and to his 24-year-old Team Penske phenom David Malukas winning his first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/2026\/05\/24\/felix-rosenqvist-passes-david-malukas-to-win-indy-500\/90245747007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">the tightest finish in the 110-year history of the Indy 500<\/a>, Malukas and his No. 12 Chevrolet-powered IndyCar was passed by Honda-powered Meyer Shank Racing\u2019s Felix Rosenqvist in the final stretch before the green flag in a wild, rain-interrupted, yellow flag-marred, 200-mph-pass-fest over 500 miles. The win was popular one for 34-year-old Swede Rosenqvist, one of the most-liked drivers in the paddock, but a heartbreaker for Malukas who just joined Team Penske this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/2026\/05\/24\/roger-penske-just-misses-record-21st-indy-500-win\/90246499007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closest finish in Indy 500 history: Meyer Shank&#8217;s Rosenqvist beats Team Penske&#8217;s Malukas to the flag. Henry Payne, The Detroit News Indianapolis\u00a0\u2014 Two one hundredths of a second. That\u2019s how close Bloomfield Hills-based, 89-year-old Roger Penske came to winning his 21st Indianapolis 500 Sunday \u2014 and to his 24-year-old Team Penske phenom David Malukas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36198,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36197\/revisions\/36198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}