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

By Miles Cooper January 22, 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 sizzling pictures have been attempting to steal their thunder for nicely over a decade.

Energy’s response was telling as somebody who picks his phrases fastidiously and sometimes has a message lurking in them: “It’s not nearly being spectacular. It’s mandatory. You’re actually not sticking round in the event you’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 Workforce 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 Method 1 champion Fernando Alonso and represented within the U.S. by Energy’s longtime buddy and ex-IndyCar driver Oriol Servia – .

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

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In response to 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 Workforce 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 finally 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 thus far in your profession, and I really feel such as you’re at your absolute best, the place you’ll be able to put a complete season collectively, race weekend collectively,” he mentioned. “You kinda have the identical pace you had (early in your profession). You don’t construct on pace. 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 inside self-belief has Energy believing he can race at this stage 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 purple, black and white livery and cashing checks from Penske Corp.

‘He’s grown up loads’:

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

“However this isn’t my selection, clearly, as a result of I don’t personal the staff. It all the time turns into sophisticated, and there’s different issues that play into that, however on the finish of the day, in the event you preserve profitable races, and also you’re very robust, that’s the most effective protection you’ve in opposition to any of that stuff. Actually, the way in which I carried out final 12 months, if I do the identical factor this 12 months…Profitable three races in a 12 months in IndyCar now could be very tough – even the champion solely received two (in 2024). So in the event you’re doing that, you in all probability must 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 Workforce Penske and will change Energy as early as 2026. Malukas informed reporters final 12 months that he solely signed with Foyt, fairly than covertly having signed a take care of Penske earlier than being loaned to Foyt. His household’s trucking enterprise, HMD Trucking, is known to have a large business-to-business take care of Penske Corp.

‘We’re again as a staff 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 staff swapped engineers on its entries, shifting James Schnabel, who has been loaned out to Foyt by Workforce 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 thought his long-time bosses could be planning for his impending exit with a alternative who has 11 top-10s and two podiums in 44 IndyCar begins at 23 years outdated.

“Yeah, I preserve getting informed that by varied folks. Actually, I haven’t been informed something by the staff on that facet of issues,” Energy mentioned. “I’m certain there could be some fact to it if it’s on the market.

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

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