The Penske PC-15 was a CART open-wheel race car that Penske Racing built for the 1986 season, and it is remembered chiefly as a car that did not work. Rick Mears was just getting back to racing on road courses after his dreadful crash at Sanair two years earlier, and Motor Sport magazine described that year’s Penske as not competitive. Mears said the car did not work on either ovals or road courses, so he still could not really drive on road courses. On the ovals he ran the team’s back-up March, while he kept developing the PC-15 on the road circuits, where he qualified anywhere from third to tenth because the car would not handle on anything. The season therefore mixed Penske’s own chassis with a customer March, and Mears accepted the problem philosophically rather than ranting about it.
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Source The remarkable Rick Mears (Motor Sport Magazine)
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That year’s Penske, the PC15, was not competitive.
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The Penske PC-15 is a CART open-wheel race car
2. The remarkable Rick Mears (Motor Sport Magazine)
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In 1986, for example, he was just getting back to racing again on road courses following his dreadful shunt at Sanair two years earlier.
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That year’s Penske, the PC15, was not competitive.
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That year’s Penske, the PC15, was not competitive.
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On his favourite ovals he ran the team’s back-up March, while continuing to develop the 15 on the road circuits.
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