IndyCar's most successful team boss Roger Penske believes the series the competition has never been better in the wake of his driver Josef Newgarden claiming a second championship.
En route to winning the 2019 title, Newgarden had to fend off numerous challenges from six other race winners, three of which went to the season finale in Laguna Seca in contention for the title.
Recent seasons have seen multiple winners from multiple teams with 2014 being one of the most diverse. Out of 18 rounds, there were 11 race winners from seven different teams.
In 2019, we saw eight drivers win races from five teams which was a testament to the consistency of the Penske outfit.
Speaking after the season finale, Penske praised the strength of his rivals and the series as a whole: "The season was great, the poles and the competition," said Penske.
"We've got a lot of young drivers coming up, [Felix] Rosenqvist came in, Colton Herta outstanding, and then it's the [Scott] Dixons and the rest of them that you have to race every single day.
"Michael [Andretti] has got a great team, Chip [Ganassi] does, and obviously the folks over at Arrow [Schmidt Peterson Motorsports], and it's just on and on and on.
"I probably missed somebody. But the competition has never been better. I think the teams when you look at them top to bottom, it's competitive.
"I think the rules are in great shape, and it's affordable to go racing in IndyCar now, which I think is key, and if we keep the rules the way they are, then we can get data equity, we need to come back to these tracks the same time every year, and that's going to grow this fan base."
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