Team Penske cars sporting PPG colors and logos
PPG and Team Penske have teamed up for another year of racing.
Celebrating the 34th year of their successful partnership, PPG continues
as a key sponsor of Team Penske’s Verizon IndyCar and NASCAR Xfinity
Series races in the 2017 racing season. PPG will serve as the exclusive
sponsor for one of Team Penske’s entries in five major racing
events—three Verizon IndyCar Series and two NASCAR Xfinity Series
races—and as an associate sponsor on all the team’s cars and equipment.
Team Penske cars will feature PPG colors and logos at the races.
“We’re all very excited about the 2017 racing season,” said Bill Shaw,
PPG director of marketing. “It’s a real thrill to see PPG’s Team Penske
car on the track, and it reflects the solid relationship between our two
companies. Look for us trackside at these races. We’re going all out for
the checkered flag.”
The 2017 season began March 12 with the Verizon IndyCar Series Streets
of St. Petersburg 110-lap, 198-mile race in Florida, where Team Penske
driver Simon Pagenaud, the 2016 Verizon IndyCar champion, climbed into
the PPG car to begin his run for a repeat championship. Pagenaud won
three of four races in the PPG car last year and declared PPG blue to be
his lucky color. He began this season with a second-place finish in the
21-car field.
PPG-sponsored Team Penske racing continues through Oct. 6, closing with
the NASCAR Xfinity Series Drive for the Cure 300 in Concord, North
Carolina. A complete schedule of PPG-Team Penske racing events, dates
and television times (EDT) follows:
Verizon Racing Series
March 12 – Streets of St. Petersburg,
St. Petersburg, Florida; Noon, ABC
July 30 – Mid-Ohio Sports
Course, Lexington, Ohio; 3 p.m., NBC Sports Network
Aug. 26 –
Gateway Motorsports, St. Louis, Missouri; 9 p.m., NBC Sports Network
NASCAR Xfinity Series
April 8 – Cowboy 300, Texas Motor
Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas; 1:30 p.m., FOX Sports
Oct. 6 – Drive
for the Cure 300, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina; 8
p.m., NBC Sports Network
PPG has been a long-time major sponsor of Team Penske, with a business
association that dates back to PPG’s involvement in automobile racing
and sponsorship of the PPG Cup from 1979 to 1999. As a leading global
supplier of high-performance coatings, PPG has become Penske
Corporation’s exclusive supplier of refinish coatings for its racing,
truck leasing and automotive collision repair subsidiaries and
facilities. Team Penske uses ENVIROBASE® High Performance waterborne
basecoat by PPG for painting its race cars.
To learn more about PPG products, call 800-647-6050 or visit www.ppgrefinish.com.
For more about Team Penske, visit www.teampenske.com.
About Team Penske
Team Penske is one of the most successful teams in the history of
professional sports. Dating back to its first race in the 1966 24 Hours
of Daytona, cars owned and prepared by Team Penske have produced more
than 440 major race wins, over 500 pole positions and 29 National
Championships across open-wheel, stock car and sports car racing
competition. In its storied history, the team has also earned 16
Indianapolis 500 victories, two Daytona 500 Championships, a Formula 1
win and overall victories in the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of
Sebring. Over 80 drivers have raced for Team Penske over the years. For
more information about Team Penske, please visit www.teampenske.com.
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coatings and materials that our customers have trusted for more than 130
years. Through dedication and creativity, we solve our customers’
biggest challenges, collaborating closely to find the right path
forward. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, we operate and innovate in
more than 70 countries and reported net sales of $14.8 billion in 2016.
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