Jonathan Diuguid
President, Team Penske
Jonathan Diuguid enters his first full season as President of both the NTT INDYCAR SERIES (NICS) and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IWSC) teams at Team Penske in 2026 after being promoted to the position during the 2025 motorsports calendar. Diuguid has been an integral driving force behind many of Team Penske's wins and championships across multiple disciplines since joining the team in 2005, making him ideally suited for his role.
The 2026 NICS season will also be the first, full season for Diuguid as a race strategist. He will serve in that capacity for two-time NICS Champion and two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, Josef Newgarden. He and Newgarden won the 2024 Indianapolis 500 with Diuguid in the strategist role on a substitute basis.
Prior to his recent promotion, Diuguid held the title of Managing Director for Porsche Penske Motorsport (PPM), the four-car, multinational effort between Porsche Motorsport and Team Penske in both IWSC and World Endurance Championship (WEC) competition since the start of the 2022 season. Under his guidance, PPM secured three consecutive wins in the Rolex 24 at Daytona (2024, 2025, 2026), a 2025 victory in the 12 Hours of Sebring, the 2024 IWSC championship in the GTP category and the 2024 WEC Hypercar crown.
Hailing from Raleigh, North Carolina, Diuguid picked up an interest in racing at an early age. He competed in Formula SAE as the Team Captain while earning a degree in Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina State University and came to Team Penske right out of college in 2005. Since that time, he has worked in numerous roles for Team Penske, helping the organization continue to add to the nearly 60-year legacy started by Roger Penske in 1966.
Diuguid was one of the first employees hired to develop and compete with the Championship-winning Penske Porsche LMP2 car in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). During his initial time with the Porsche program, Diuguid had a wide range of responsibilities including designing parts, fuel cell development, race fuel strategy and assistant race engineer.
In 2007, Diuguid and former Team Penske driver, Ryan Briscoe, worked together on the No. 6 DHL Penske/Porsche, as Diuguid helped guide Briscoe and Sascha Maassen to three LMP2 class victories and a third-place finish in the final ALMS standings. It was here when Diuguid and Helio Castroneves worked together for the first time when the Brazilian racer and Briscoe teamed up to drive the Penske Porsche in the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta in 2008, where they produced the overall win and the 24th LMP2 victory for Team Penske.
At the conclusion of the Penske Porsche ALMS program in 2008, Diuguid engineered the Team Penske Grand-Am Series prototype program in 2009 and then he transitioned to the team's NTT INDYCAR SERIES program in 2010. There he reunited with Briscoe on the No. 6 Team Penske entry, first as a data acquisition engineer from 2010-2011, then as race engineer in 2012.
As Team Penske transitioned to two cars in 2013, Diuguid moved to the timing stand of the No. 3 Chevrolet driven by Castroneves. The two became one of the best driver/engineer combinations in the NICS with three wins, 23 podium finishes, 12 NTT P1 Pole Awards and five top-five finishes in the standings through the 2017 season.
Diuguid returned to the IMSA ranks in 2018 to lead the engineering efforts for the two Acura Team Penske entries in the Dpi category of IWSC. Once again, he proved his championship mettle with consecutive titles in 2019 and 2020. Diuguid returned to the INDYCAR SERIES and the No. 3 Chevrolet again in 2021, this time with rookie driver Scott McLaughlin, helping lead the three-time Australian Supercars champion in his acclimation to open wheel racing.
Diuguid, his wife Katherine, son Zay, and daughter Eliza reside in Mooresville, NC. In his spare time Diuguid enjoys slalom skiing, snow skiing and mountain biking.