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The Penske general throttling back

Clive Howell is one of the major forces in establishing 'The Penske Way'. His retirement after almost four decades at the team points to a changing of the guard

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There was something different about Team Penske's IndyCar team at the start of 2019, and it was hard to pinpoint at first. It wasn't the performance of the cars on track - they remained fast, and the driver and primary sponsor line-up was the same as the year before.

But if you studied the Penske garages hard between or during test sessions, it would eventually have dawned on any regular onlooker that there was a notable absentee. Where was that little moustachioed guy, the one who always looked busy, and seemed to avoid making eye contact with anyone not wearing Penske logos?

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