Those discussions, though, didn’t take place “over a prolonged period,” nor were they considered to be overly “in-depth,” according to an official, and they certainly didn’t reach the level of rapid escalation that Penske provided. leadership confirmed to IndyStar that well before Tony George approached Roger Penske on the grid at the 2019 Ind圜ar season-finale at Laguna Seca to pitch the 18-time Indy 500 winning owner on a deal, IMS leadership had previously held conversations with Andretti. I’ve always got a million tentacles out there, and you just have to see what comes back to you.” “It’s something that would have been cool to do, and I had some cool ideas for what we could have done here. There were some discussions there, and we would have loved to have that, and I think it would have made a lot of sense.

“At one point, we thought we had the right backer,” Andretti told IndyStar during an exclusive interview this month. But this empire he’s been studiously building for nearly 20 years needed its true crown jewel.īefore Michael Andretti’s chase of Alfa Romeo and team ownership in Formula 1, the five-time 500-winning team owner eyed owning the Racing Capital of the World: Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The seven worldwide racing series Andretti Autosport presently participates in is, perhaps, unmatched. Andretti has long dreamed of amassing a list of assets in motorsports that would set him apart from the field.

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