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Penske assigns Prados as race engineer for McLaughlin
Team Penske has assigned IndyCar Series veteran and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship-winning race engineer Raul Prados to lead Scott McLaughlin’s No. 3 Chevrolet for the 2026 IndyCar season.
The change comes after McLaughlin’s race engineer Ben Bretzman, who teamed with the New Zealander from 2022-2025, was promoted to the role of engineering manager of competition.
With Bretzman charged with looking after all of the three-car team’s race, performance, and related engineers, team president Jonathan Diuguid shifted Prados from the team’s Porsche Penske Motorsport IMSA GTP effort back to IndyCar, where he spent 2012-2016 with AJ Foyt Racing before joining Penske and focusing heavily on its IMSA programs with Acura and now Porsche.
Under Bretzman’s direction, McLaughlin and the No. 3 Team Penske Chevy program won seven races, as well as pole position at the Indianapolis 500 in 2024 and a pair of third-place finishes in the championship across 2023-2024.
More news regarding engineering assignments for Josef Newgarden’s No. 2 Chevy and the No. 12 Chevy driven by newcomer David Malukas are expected in the coming weeks.
Marshall Pruett
The 2026 season marks Marshall Pruett's 40th year working in the sport. In his role today for RACER, Pruett covers open-wheel and sports car racing as a writer, reporter, photographer, and filmmaker. In his previous career, he served as a mechanic, engineer, and team manager in a variety of series, including IndyCar, IMSA, and World Challenge.
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