The Penske PC-11 was an Indy car that Geoff Ferris designed for Penske Racing’s 1983 CART season. It was based on the successful PC-10 and looked very similar, but it did not respond to the latest skirt rules, under which the skirts had to be raised to an inch above the chassis. Rick Mears explained that the PC-10 had been so good aerodynamically that it masked mechanical settings that were not that good, and that the PC-11 was evil when the skirts first came off the ground and took a lot of work to sort out. Mears put a PC-11 on the pole for the season opener at Atlanta and led most of the first half, but lost six laps in the pits changing a broken ignition sparkbox and finished eighth. Mears, Al Unser and Roger Penske had all expected more from the new car, and by the end of the season Unser took the CART title in a Penske.
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Geoff Ferris designed a new Penske for 1983, called the PC11.
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1. Penske PC-11 (Wikipedia)
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The Penske PC-11 was a CART open-wheel race car
2. The Way It Is: Big Al’s surprise 1983 CART title (Gordon Kirby)
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Geoff Ferris designed a new Penske for 1983, called the PC11.
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Geoff Ferris designed a new Penske for 1983, called the PC11.
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Geoff Ferris designed a new Penske for 1983, called the PC11.
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Mears put his PC11 on the pole for the season-opener at his favorite track, the high-banked Atlanta superspeedway
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