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Will Energy says he can race 5 extra years in IndyCar. Will Group Penske let him?
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Will Energy says he can race 5 extra years in IndyCar. Will Group Penske let him?

By Miles Cooper January 15, 2025
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INDIANAPOLIS – Lower than two months from turning 44 and nearing the eve of his twenty first season in American open-wheel racing, was requested Wednesday afternoon at content material days about how spectacular it’s that he and Scott Dixon (additionally 44) the place younger scorching photographs have been attempting to steal their thunder for properly over a decade.

Energy’s response was telling as somebody who picks his phrases rigorously and sometimes has a message lurking in them: “It’s not nearly being spectacular. It’s needed. You’re definitely not sticking round if you happen to’re not doing that.”

They’re phrases of a two-time champion and 2018 Indianapolis 500 winner who enters one more contract 12 months with Group Penske and sits 4 months from Could, , even when two-thirds of a season stays. Coincidentally – or not – hours earlier than Energy spoke to assembled media in a press convention setting Wednesday, he introduced he had signed – an company launched by two-time System 1 champion Fernando Alonso and represented within the U.S. by Energy’s longtime good friend and ex-IndyCar driver Oriol Servia – .

Will Energy says he can race 5 extra years in IndyCar. Will Group Penske let him?

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Based on Energy, the transfer was made to assist insulate himself from contract talks as he hopes to duplicate a efficiency that, at its finest, was the strongest the IndyCar paddock noticed a 12 months in the past. Nobody, save his Group Penske teammate Scott McLaughlin, , and Energy’s common beginning place was second-best solely to McLaughlin. Although he didn’t card a pole within the 2024 season for the primary time since 2008, that common beginning spot was the Australian’s finest since 2020.

Although he ultimately slipped to fourth within the championship standings by the checkered flag in Nashville, having entered the finale in 2nd-place earlier than defective seatbelts marred his closing race, Energy informed reporters Wednesday he continues to really feel each bit as robust contained in the cockpit as he ever has – a reality he believes continues to be backed up by his outcomes on-track.

“It’s humorous. You get so far in your profession, and I really feel such as you’re at your easiest, the place you’ll be able to put a complete season collectively, race weekend collectively,” he mentioned. “You kinda have the identical velocity you had (early in your profession). You don’t construct on velocity. That’s only a pure factor, however the entire different package deal takes a very long time to get – except you’re Alex Palou.”

That strongly-held inner self-belief has Energy believing he can race at this degree for an additional 5 years.

And there’s no query he, certainly, desires to. He simply hopes that point can proceed to be spent donning Verizon’s flashy pink, black and white livery and cashing checks from Penske Corp.

‘He’s grown up quite a bit’:

With three races to go in the 2024 IndyCar season, two-time title-winner Will Power has clawed his way into the championship picture, with defending champ and points leader Alex Palou his sole main rival.

“Yeah, that’s completely the aim, to maintain rolling,” he mentioned Wednesday. “I’ve been very fortunate to drive for a workforce like Penske. There isn’t a greater workforce within the sequence proper now. Roger is a category act.

“However this isn’t my alternative, clearly, as a result of I don’t personal the workforce. It all the time turns into sophisticated, and there’s different issues that play into that, however on the finish of the day, if you happen to hold successful races, and also you’re very robust, that’s the very best protection you might have towards any of that stuff. Actually, the way in which I carried out final 12 months, if I do the identical factor this 12 months…Successful three races in a 12 months in IndyCar now could be very troublesome – even the champion solely received two (in 2024). So if you happen to’re doing that, you in all probability ought to be driving in that sequence. You deserve a seat.”

Energy was requested once more Wednesday, , his emotions relating to the rampant hypothesis that new AJ Foyt Racing driver signing David Malukas has been tapped to be subsequent in line at Group Penske and will exchange Energy as early as 2026. Malukas informed reporters final 12 months that he solely signed with Foyt, fairly than covertly having signed a cope with Penske earlier than being loaned to Foyt. His household’s trucking enterprise, HMD Trucking, is known to have a large business-to-business cope with Penske Corp.

‘We’re again as a workforce once more’:

Several IndyCar title contenders chasing Mid-Ohio polesitter and points-leader Alex Palou have a lot of ground to make up in Sunday's race, including Will Power, who is 2nd in points and qualified 16th.

Curiously this offseason, the Foyt workforce swapped engineers on its entries, shifting James Schnabel, who has been loaned out to Foyt by Group Penske for the reason that pair started a technical alliance that launched in 2024, from Santino Ferrucci’s No. 14 to Malukas’ No. 4, regardless of Schnabel and Ferrucci making a Cinderella-like run to ninth in factors a 12 months in the past.

‘I’m not retiring’:

What sparked a fiery assertion from 5 months in the past, drew a extra mild-mannered response, although he was nonetheless irked by the concept his long-time bosses may be planning for his impending exit with a substitute who has 11 top-10s and two podiums in 44 IndyCar begins at 23 years outdated.

“Yeah, I hold getting informed that by varied individuals. Actually, I haven’t been informed something by the workforce on that aspect of issues,” Energy mentioned. “I’m positive there may be some reality to it if it’s on the market.

“However we’ll see what occurs. It’s simply a type of issues, huh? You’ve acquired somebody knocking at your door.”

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