Foyt and Penske technical alliance to continue

The technical alliance between AJ Foyt Racing and Team Penske is set to continue through 2026 and 2027. Leaders from both teams confirmed the extension in calls on Monday with RACER.

The partnership between IndyCar’s oldest team and IndyCar’s most successful team began towards the end of the 2023 championship when Penske agreed to supply Foyt with its dampers and technical support. Over the last two seasons it has evolved into an expanded relationship where Penske helped the outfit owned by the four-time Indianapolis 500 winner by sharing data, chassis setups, dampers, and a Penske race engineer from 2024.

With Penske’s influence, Santino Ferrucci and its No. 14 Chevy entry rose from 19th in the 2023 championship to ninth in 2024 – a career best for the Connecticut native – with the talents of race engineer James Schnabel applied to the program. Schnabel shifted to Foyt’s No. 4 car in 2025 to run Penske’s David Malukas, which also led to a career-best finish of 11th in the standings for the Illinois product.

Owing to the offseason driver and engineering changes within Team Penske, Malukas and Schnabel were moved upward into the No. 12 Penske Chevy, and in response, the Foyt team will staff its No. 4 Chevy for Brazilian rookie Caio Collet and Ferrucci’s No. 14 Chevy with its own race engineers who will make use of the same data and technical support package from Penske.

For Ferrucci, it’s building with trusted and talented young race engineer Adam Kolesar, and for Collet, it’s Foyt technical director Michael Armbrester returning to race engineering with the promising Indy NXT runner-up.

The term of the ongoing relationship will cover the two remaining years for IndyCar’s Dallara DW12 chassis and 2.2-liter twin-turbo V6 engines. A continuation of the Penske-Foyt alliance could be explored when the new-for-2028 Dallara IR28 and 2.4-liter twin-turbo V6 formula arrives.