Penske cars destroyed in fire

The Team Penske transporter carrying the primary cars of Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe to this weekend's IndyCar race at Sonoma, Calif. caught fire and burned to the ground early Wednesday morning in Wyoming.

A wheel bearing triggered the fire, which then became an inferno on Interstate 80 about 60 miles west of Cheyenne, according to Tim Cindric, president of Penske Performance Inc.

"It melted the ceiling and we lost both primary cars, all our pit equipment, all the team uniforms, the shock dyno and a lot of gearbox stuff," said Cindric from his office in Mooresville, N.C. "There was also a fab shop and it was gutted.

"My guess is a couple million bucks. It's a disaster." More at SPEEDTV.com