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The Penske PC-23 was a highly successful CART racing car that competed in the 1994 IndyCar season with Penske Racing, and in the 1995 IndyCar season with Bettenhausen Motorsports. It was designed by Nigel Bennett , [ 2 ] who based its design on the 1993 car, the PC-22 , which was a radical departure from the basic concept of the previous Penske ...
The Penske Team also made headlines during the month of May, when they unveiled the new Ilmor Mercedes-Benz 500I engine. The secretly-built, 209 in 3 (3.42 L) displacement purpose-built pushrod engine, which was capable of nearly 1,000 horsepower (750 kW) [ 1 ] was constructed specifically for the Indy 500.
The Mercedes-Benz 500I engine is a highly powerful, turbocharged, 3.4-liter, Indy car racing V-8 engine, designed, developed, and built by Ilmor, in partnership with Mercedes-Benz, specifically to compete in the 1994 Indianapolis 500.
Roger Penske made several changes for 1996, particularly after the Penske team failed to qualify for the 1995 Indianapolis 500.Some of the differences between the PC-25 and the 1995 car, the Penske PC-24, were that it had better aerodynamics and was powered by the Mercedes-Benz IC 108C turbocharged V8 engine producing 900 brake horsepower.
Raul Boesel broke the 230 mph barrier at 5:55 p.m., the first driver to do so since 1992. His lap of 230.403 was the fastest thus far for the month. The Penske-Mercedes was close behind, turning in their best laps of the month. Paul Tracy was second-fastest for the day at 229.961 mph, and Fittipaldi was third at 229.264 mph. [6]
The 1995 PPG Indy Car World Series season was the seventeenth in the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) era of U.S. American open-wheel car racing.It consisted of 17 races, beginning in Miami, Florida on March 5 and concluding in Monterey, California on September 10.