‘I definitely want to do that,’ Newly Crowned Daytona 500 champion Austin Cindric wants to take a shot at Indy 500

‘I definitely want to do that,’ Newly Crowned Daytona 500 champion Austin Cindric wants to take a shot at Indy 500

Austin Cindric

Austin Cindric burst into fame in 2022 after the Penske Racing rookie secured his maiden NASCAR cup series win toping the season opener Daytona 500, making him the first point-race winner in Next-Gen NASCAR. Austin Cindric edged Bubba Wallace and teammate Ryan Blaney to win “The Great American Race” in his first full-time season.

Austin Cindric comes from a great lineage of racers or motorsports specialists and the Cindrics are a big name in American Motorsports. His father Tim Cindric who is the president of Penske Racing plays a major role in the teams involved in the NASCAR cup series as well as other established racing championships.

Team Penske represents the Penske brand in IndyCar, one of the prominent open-wheel car racing series in the world. Now Austin Cindric has expressed his objective of one day racing at one of the major Indy Series events the Indianapolis 500.

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Austin Cindric
Austin Cindric

Austin Cindric shared his 2021 Indianapolis 500 experience where he witnessed one of the highlights as a motorsport spectator, where one of his childhood idols Helio Castroneves, who also races for Team Penske, won his 4th Indy 500 and added that it is interesting for him to realize he will not able to watch it this year as he has cup series race scheduled around the same time.

“Last year, I got to see my hero growing up, Helio Castroneves win his fourth Indy 500, and that was a pretty cool way to close that chapter of my life of being a spectator of that race. To think I’m not going to get to go this year because I’ll be racing in Charlotte (for Cup’s Coca Cola 600 later that evening) is pretty crazy,” Austin Cindric said.

,Helio Castroneves and Austin Cindric
,Helio Castroneves and Austin Cindric

Austin Cindric went on to say that his mentality now on his future at Indy 500 is to either go there as a spectator because he lost his job or enter the race. Austin Cindric reiterated that he wants to race in the Indy 500 someday in his career.  

“But my mentality now is this: the next time I’m at the Indy 500 on race day, it’s either going to be because I’m out of a job, or I’m entered in the race. I want to do that someday at some point in my career,” says Austin Cindric.

Also read: ‘If there’s a guy that deserves to win Daytona 500 it’s Ryan Blaney,’ Austin Cindric father and Penske president Tim Cindric