Penske's Indy racing team suffered disaster early this morning when their transporter truck - en route from the team's headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina, to Sonoma, California - caught fire at 4 a.m. on Interstate 80 outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. The two Penske personnel on board managed to escape unharmed, but could not extinguish the fire, believed to have been caused by a faulty bearing in one of the trailer's wheels. They detached the truck cab from the burning trailer and could do nothing more but watch as an estimated $2 million worth of equipment - including two Dallara-Honda race cars - went up in flames.

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