Pagenaud Drives PPG-Painted Chevy to Another Team Penske Victory

Simon Pagenaud of Team Penske drove the No. 22 PPG Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet to another 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series win, beating teammate and second-place finisher Will Power to the checkered flag in the Honda Indy 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, Sunday, July 31.

In his second season with Team Penske, Pagenaud has raced to four wins—the latest along with the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama and the Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis—three of them in the PPG-painted car. With his Mid-Ohio victory, Pagenaud increased his lead in the driver championship standings to 58 points over his closest competitor, teammate Power.

“Four wins! That’s awesome … and exciting,” said Pagenaud, a native of France. “The PPG Chevrolet seems to bring me good luck. It was really good today, and I was able to get to the winner’s circle.”

Thanks to Pagenaud’s first-place finish, Team Penske received the Honda Indy 200 Owner’s Trophy, an honor given to the winning car’s owner. Team Penske, as a show of appreciation, in turn presented the trophy to the team’s primary sponsor for the race, PPG. John Outcalt, PPG vice president, global automotive refinish, accepted the honor.

“The PPG-Team Penske relationship is one we value and never take for granted,” Outcalt said. “Presenting PPG with this Owner’s Trophy was unexpected and speaks to the rich, mutually beneficial history between the two entities.”

PPG has been a longtime major sponsor of Team Penske, with a business association dating back to PPG’s sponsorship of the PPG Cup in automobile racing from 1979 to 1999. As a leading global supplier of high-performance coatings, PPG has become Penske Corporation’s exclusive supplier of refinish coatings for its racing, truck leasing and automotive collision repair subsidiaries and facilities. Team Penske uses the PPG ENVIROBASE® High Performance waterborne coatings system for painting its racecars. Pagenaud’s Chevrolet showcased a lustrous blue-and-white PPG waterbased finish for the race, and all PPG-sponsored Team Penske cars display the PPG logo.