The Penske PC-21 was a

CART A cart or dray (Australia and New Zealand) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people. It is different from the flatbed tr ...

Penske Racing car which competed in the

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, alongside the older PC-20 chassis. In 1992, it scored 5 race wins, all with Emerson Fittipaldi, including the season-opening round in

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, and the special

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Nazareth Nazareth ( ; ar, النَّاصِرَة, ''an-Nāṣira''; he, נָצְרַת, ''Nāṣəraṯ''; arc, ܢܨܪܬ, ''Naṣrath'') is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". In ...

, eventually placing 4th at the season's end respectively. The car was designed by

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, his 3rd for Penske Racing. It was powered by the Ilmor-Chevrolet 265-A turbo engine. Ayrton Senna famously did a test with the car on December 20, 1992, at

Firebird International Raceway Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park is a 450-acre (180 ha) motorsport racing complex, located in Chandler, Arizona, United States, about southeast of downtown Phoenix. History The facility opened as Firebird International Raceway in 1983. In 1 ...

in Arizona. He showed signs of competitiveness, posting the fastest lap record of 49.09 seconds, while veteran Emerson Fittipaldi set a benchmark lap time of 49.7 seconds.

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