Roger Penske explores opening auto racing museum in Detroit

Roger Penske

Automotive industry mogul Roger Penske is exploring opening an auto racing museum in downtown Detroit, where he is already a booster of major projects, including donating for M-1 Rail construction and purchases of police cars and ambulances and staging car races on Belle Isle.

"We're looking at a building downtown," Penske said in a Free Press interview today, "and our thoughts are, 'Can we put an office downtown and maybe put in a museum where we would bring in race cars?'

"We have a number of racing artifacts around the country," Penske added, "but being able to have something downtown might very interesting. I'm not stating that that's going to happen, but that's on the radar."

Asked about the timing for that decision, he replied, "I would say in the next couple months." Detroit Free Press