Workforce Penske confirmed its lineup of race strategist for the upcoming IndyCar Sequence season on Thursday, which included the notable return of Tim Cindric.
Cindric, the group’s former president, shall be again on the timing stand and function the race strategist for Scott McLaughlin. Workforce Penske President Jonathan Diuguid will name technique for Josef Newgarden, with Travis Regulation set to do the identical for newcomer David Malukas.
“I’m enthusiastic about our Workforce Penske lineup for the 2026 IndyCar season,” Diuguid stated. “I sit up for persevering with to work with Josef (Newgarden), as we’ve got loved a whole lot of success collectively. Travis Regulation shall be a terrific chief for David (Malukas) as he makes his transition into Workforce Penske. Tim Cindric brings a long time of expertise to Scott’s (McLaughlin) timing stand, and given his expertise and time inside our group, he shall be a terrific addition to our lineup on race day within the position of race strategist.
“With the help of our robust and skilled engineering workers, technicians, and companions, the No. 2, No. 3, and No. 12 Workforce Penske entries are positioned properly, and I’m assured the crew will struggle for wins each race within the extraordinarily aggressive IndyCar discipline beginning in St. Pete.”
9 months in the past, Cindric, together with IndyCar Managing Director Ron Ruzewski and IndyCar Basic Supervisor Kyle Moyer, have been let go by crew proprietor Roger Penske, who additionally owns the collection and Indianapolis Motor Speedway, on Could 12, 2025. The trio’s dismissal was following two of the crew’s three entries failing technical inspection throughout qualifying for the 2025 Indianapolis 500, with infractions for unapproved modifications to the rear attenuator on the vehicles of Newgarden and Will Energy. It was the second dishonest occasion in as a few years, with the push-to-pass scanal rocking the paddock in 2024 and leaving many groups questioning the integrity of how the collection was being run. Following these occasions, it led to the creation of an Unbiased Officiating Board – nonetheless paid for by Penske – and is supplied with an FIA member together with two others appointed by the opposite chartered groups.
Not like Ruzewski and Moyer, who each discovered new houses at Andretti World and Arrow McLaren, respectively, Cindric is again at his outdated stomping grounds.
Cindric’s arrival is one in all a number of key adjustments to McLaughlin’s crew, with Raul Prados changing Ben Bretzman as his race engineer, and David Hunt taking on as spotter from Adam Fournier.
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