Luke Mason
Race Engineer, No. 2 Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet

Luke Mason begins his third full season as race engineer for the No. 2 Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet team in 2025, working with two-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES (NICS) champion and back-to-back Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden. After joining Team Penske for the 2022 NICS season as the performance engineer for the No. 2 team, Mason moved into his current role at the start of the 2023 season.

As part of a strong Australian/New Zealand contingent within the Team Penske INDYCAR ranks, Mason was part of the groundbreaking Bachelor of Technology, Motorsports program at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Western Australia. A proud 2011 graduate of ECU, Mason helped found the school's Formula SAE program in 2008. He held positions of fabricator, suspension designer and driver at ECU, eventually helping to lead the program to a fifth-place Formula SAE finish in 2009.

After graduation, Mason began his professional career as a data engineer for Stone Brothers Racing in the Australian Supercars Championship in 2012, before the team became Erebus Motorsport in 2013. He was promoted to race engineer for the first time in 2014 when Will Davison was announced as the Erebus driver. Mason and Davison helped the team earn its first podium at the Townsville 500, their first pole position for the Sydney 500 and a win at the Perth Super Sprint in 2015.

Mason made the biggest move of his career as he left his native Australia for the United States and a position as the second race engineer for Richard Childress Racing's (RCR) No. 27 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Cup Series. The following year, the RCR leadership elevated Mason to the role of lead engineer for the No. 21 Chevrolet driven by Daniel Hemric in the NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS). Mason helped direct the team to the Championship 4 and a shot at the 2017 NXS title.

His two-year run at RCR paved the way for Mason to join Carlin Motorsport, where he helped lead the team's NICS expansion after years of competition in European open-wheel racing. After serving as performance engineer while working with INDYCAR drivers including Charlie Kimball, Pato O'Ward, Max Chilton and Conor Daly, Mason advanced to become race engineer and strategist for the team through the 2020 season. His performance led to the opportunity with Team Penske in 2022, where he excelled as a key member of the No. 2 team's engineering efforts.

Heading into 2025, Mason and Newgarden have scored six victories and three pole positions together. In addition to competing for the NICS title, Mason and the No. 2 team hope to be the first to achieve three-consecutive Indianapolis 500 victories in May.

Mason resides in Charlotte, NC.