Today in the Marshall Proop podcast, we have a catching up with episode with the captain, Roger Penske, now owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the NTTT IndyCar series, the Indy-500's most successful entrant championship winning team owner in IMSA, the American Lamar series, Transam, CanAM, IndyCar, NASCAR, Australian supercars.

If you know motor racing, you know RP.

I've been trying to get together here for a longer conversation, one we would record for you,

spanning a number of topics.

Ended up having about 15 minutes scheduled

knowing that he is usually very swift and moving from a day full of appointments did not

expect to get beyond that put together seven questions for RP we ended up getting to five

and also stretching this out to approximately 25 minutes.

Number of the topics would of course have loved to have drilled in deep,

but also wanted to touch on the other items we had to discuss.

So let's say thank you to Cooper Tires,

the Justice Brothers, Toronto Motorsports.com,

and Bell Racing Helmets USA,

and get going with the captain, Roger Penske, here on the

Marshall Proof podcast. Why don't we start off, sir, by talking about a rather interesting

announcement that came on Saturday just ahead of the GMR Grand Prix about Indycar's new

and IMS's new race for a quality and change

program.

Curious, having read through the bullet points, if you can share some of the thoughts on whether

this would be a new division, a new department with a staff of its own, when it might go

live, just some of the background thoughts on how

this initiative will come to life?

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