Roger Penske, at 83 and considered high risk for the coronavirus as a 2017 kidney transplant recipient, still makes the daily three-minute commute to his Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, office.
He works 12 or more hours a day from his conference room at Penske Corp., which has a skeleton crew practicing social distancing.
Penske has 60,000 employees across the world in an organization in constant flux because of the COVID-19 crisis. That would be enough for the leader of any corporation, but this pandemic is marring his debut as owner of Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the IndyCar Series.
His cloak-and-dagger purchase was done in six weeks last year, the sale completed in January, and the most important thing to Penske since taking over was