{"id":36419,"date":"2026-07-21T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36419"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:42:35","slug":"team-penske-reuss-make-white-house-pit-stop-for-freedom-250-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/team-penske-reuss-make-white-house-pit-stop-for-freedom-250-race","title":{"rendered":"Team Penske, Reuss make White House pit stop for Freedom 250 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/07\/16\/PDTN\/90939278007-freedom-250-white-house-ovalofficedeskdrivers.jpg?width=660&amp;height=440&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Washington, DC - At the Freedom 250 Grand Prix West Wing preview, left to right in Oval Office: David Malukas, President Trump, Alex Palou, Felix Rosenqvist.\" width=\"527\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>Washington, DC &#8211; At the Freedom 250 Grand Prix West Wing preview, left to right in Oval Office: David Malukas, President Trump, Alex Palou, Felix Rosenqvist.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>White House, White House<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">IndyCar made a pit stop at the White House this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Detroit auto giants Roger Penske and General Motors President Mark Reuss joined Indy 500 winner Felix Rosenqvist, Indy 500 runner-up David Malukas, and reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou at the White House to give the nation\u2019s capital a preview of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix coming next month to DC\u2019s streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The motorsports event follows June\u2019s UFC Freedom 250 slugfest that showcased the world\u2019s best ultimate fighters on the White House south lawn. Team Penske driver Malukas and his pit crew showed off their quick hands, too, with a tire-burning, 6.5-second pit stop in front of the West Wing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">President Donald Trump, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Penske President Bud Denker, and Fox Sports CEO (and IndyCar broadcast partner) Eric Shanks looked on while White House staff cheered from the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/07\/16\/team-penske-reuss-visit-white-house-ahead-of-freedom-250-indy-car-race\/90934690007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC &#8211; At the Freedom 250 Grand Prix West Wing preview, left to right in Oval Office: David Malukas, President Trump, Alex Palou, Felix Rosenqvist. White House, White House IndyCar made a pit stop at the White House this week. Detroit auto giants Roger Penske and General Motors President Mark Reuss joined Indy 500 [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36419"}],"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=36419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36420,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36419\/revisions\/36420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}