40-YEAR PURSUIT: Roger Penske finally claims the Sprint Cup championship

摘要

MILLIONS OF Americans awoke the Monday before Thanksgiving to read or hear that 28-year-old Brad Keselowski just the day before gave team owner Roger Penske his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season championship. Perhaps surprisingly, the immediate reaction of many may have been one of doubt, then confusion. Penske's first Cup? Surely that's wrong, they probably thought over their coffee. Hasn't Roger Penske won a zillion of everything meaningful in American motorsports? Hasn't he won loads of Indianapolis 500s and all those stock-car races and a bunch of Daytona 500s and Sprint Cups and sports-car events and whatever else? Certainly his NASCAR teams could not have been this good for this long, yet not won a Sprint Cup until this year with a kid from Rochester Hills, Mich., behind the wheel?