Penske PC-23
Team Penske
MarqueTeam Penske
Power500I: 1,024 hp @ 9,800 rpm (10,500 rpm max.), 550 lbft torque
Race record12 wins from 32 races · 1 (CART) championships
Team Penske
This is the catalogue record of the Penske PC-23, one of 16 models Team Penske has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
The record does not fix a firm introduction year for the Penske PC-23, which is itself informative: cars without a clean launch date are usually prototypes, coachbuilt specials, or models whose history was written down long after the fact. The catalogue keeps them anyway, because the odd corners of the record are where the interesting machines hide.
On paper, the Penske PC-23 reads like this: quoted output is 500I: 1,024 hp @ 9,800 rpm (10,500 rpm max.), 550 lbft torque; kerb weight is recorded at 1550 lb. Worked together, those figures give roughly 323 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Team Penske's own catalogue the Penske PC-23 sits alongside the Penske PC-10, the Penske PC-16, the Penske PC-17, the Penske PC-18. The record names the Penske PC-22 as its predecessor and the Penske PC-24 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Nigel Bennett.
The Penske PC-23 also has a competition record: 12 recorded wins from 32 starts and 1 (CART) championships. A race history changes how a car should be valued — competition machines appreciate on provenance, not depreciation curves.
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.
The catalogue records what the Penske PC-23 was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.
Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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