Mazak Congratulates Brad Keselowski and Penske Racing on Championship Win

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Mazak Corporation, a Penske Racing technical sponsor, offered congratulations to owner Roger Penske, driver Brad Keselowski and the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Team on a winning season and on earning Penske Racing its first-ever Cup series title. Keselowski secured a 15th place finish at the Ford EcoBoost 400 season finale race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, all that was needed to clinch the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) Championship for himself and his team. After a sixth-place finish at the AdvoCare 500 race in Phoenix on November 11, Keselowski had 2,371 points and a 20-point advantage over the leader in the NSCS points standings. With the championship, Keselowski beat five-time champion Jimmie Johnson to bring Roger Penske his first NSCS Championship since his first stock car race 40 years ago.

Keselowski’s NSCS Championship comes in his third full-time season, and he is the third driver to win his first NSCS Championship within their first three full-time seasons. He finishes the 2012 season with five wins, 13 top-five finishes, and 23 top-ten finishes. “I want to thank Mazak for providing us the machines that make the parts we need to build winning race cars,” remarked Keselowski. “It’s sponsors like them that make this (Penske Racing) a championship organization.”

Penske Racing and Mazak have been strong partners since 1994. In fact, Mazak is one of the original group of Penske Racing South sponsors dating back to when Roger Penske founded his NASCAR racing organization. As the Penske organization has grown over the years, so have Mazak applications and involvement with the team.

“All of us at Mazak are proud to be associated with Penske Racing and offer our hearty cheers and congratulations to Brad and the team on a truly well-deserved championship title,” said Brian Papke, president of Mazak Corporation. Papke also noted that racing and manufacturing are both industries where man and machine accomplish truly amazing things, and success or failure is determined by fractions of a second. “Penske Racing and Mazak possess a deep dedication to achieving perfection driven by a never-ending passion and hunger to win in their respective industries,” he concluded.

From basic suspension brackets to complex custom engine parts, the multi-tasking capability and advanced technology provided by Mazak production equipment has played a vital role in the success of Penske’s IZOD IndyCar and NASCAR teams. While each Mazak machine tool Penske Racing uses in its in-house manufacturing operations serves a unique purpose, all of these Mazaks offer consistency in precision, speed, and performance throughout the part-production process, as well as the versatility to quickly adapt vehicle components to the ever-changing racing track conditions and racing industry segments. In fact, Penske Racing maintains “the team couldn’t do what it does on the racetrack without Mazak machine tool technology.” To show its support of Mazak, Penske Racing features the Mazak logo on the nose of its IndyCars, as well as on the B-pillars of NASCAR Series cars. For more information on Mazak’s products and solutions, visit www.mazakusa.com or follow them on Twitter at @MazakCorp and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MazakCorp.