When Danica Patrick and Marco Andretti wound up dueling side-by-side — then feuding afterward — during an IndyCar Series race at Texas Motor Speedway this season, their big names drew plenty of attention to the spat.
It also served to highlight how the drivers under the Team Penske umbrella — Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe — have managed to make working together benefit each other, even while both are always chasing the same checkered flag and top spot in the points race.
“Ryan and I, we’ve been working really, really well together,” Castroneves said during a test at Richmond International Raceway in advance of Saturday night’s visit to the shortest oval the series races. “My philosophy, if you get along with a guy, that can improve your car as well, help you, because remember, we have limited testing. So if he tries something and I’m trying totally the opposite, and we find something, that is benefiting both of us.
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“Internally we all believe that it makes the team stronger when we can work with each other and not against each other,” Briscoe said at RIR.
Patrick, who made an appearance at Richmond International Airport on Thursday, said the communication on her Andretti-Green Racing team also is what makes that unit strong.
“Internally we all believe that it makes the team stronger when we can work with each other and not against each other,” Briscoe said at RIR.
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