Former Team Penske GM Kyle Moyer Returns To IndyCar With Arrow McLaren
Kyle Moyer at the 2024 Indianapolis 500 Victory Awards Ceremony (Photo by Joe Skibinski | IMS Photo)
One of the three Team Penske executives that was dismissed before last month's 109th Indianapolis 500 has already landed a job with another NTT IndyCar Series Team.
It's Kyle Moyer, a highly respected IndyCar team executive most recently with Team Penske. Moyer is reunited with Tony Kanaan, 21 years after the two worked together during Kanaan's championship season in 2004 at what was then Andretti Green Racing.
Kanaan, now the Team Principal at Arrow McLaren, has hired Moyer as the team's Director of Competition and begins his new role next week when the team tests at Iowa Speedway.
Moyer was most recently a key member of Team Penske, serving as the IndyCar General Manager of Roger Penske's team but was one of three executives who were dismissed over a technical rules violation before qualifications for the 109th Indianapolis 500 in May.
Also dismissed for illegally modifying the rear attenuator was Team Penske IndyCar President Tim Cindric and the team's IndyCar Managing Director Ron Ruzewski.
Kanaan and Moyer worked together for years when both were at what is now Andretti Global. Moyer left that team in 2015 to join Team Penske.
Moyer has more than 30 years of experience in the motorsports industry and was in his 11th season with Team Penske in 2025. In 2019, Moyer moved into the role of General Manager for Team Penske's Chevrolet-backed NTT IndyCar Series program.
In addition to overseeing the IndyCar team at Team Penske, Moyer was also the race strategist for Team Penske's No. 3 Chevrolet driven by Scott McLaughlin.
Impressive Resume
Moyer joined Team Penske just prior to the 2015 IndyCar Series season. Since coming on board, Team Penske has won the Indianapolis 500 on five occasions and also produced four IndyCar Series championships.
Prior to joining Team Penske, Moyer served as the Director of Operations at Andretti Global, where he oversaw the team's IndyCar program. Before he joined the Andretti organization, Moyer worked at Forsythe-Green Racing. In 1995, he enjoyed a breakout year with driver Jacques Villeneuve serving as his crew chief while they captured the Indianapolis 500 and the CART Series championship.
While working at Galles-Kraco Racing from 1989-1992, Moyer was part of the first of many Indianapolis 500 wins during the course of his career.
Moyer began his career in motorsports at Gary Bettenhausen's race shop in Monrovia, Indiana and he did everything at the shop ranging from sweeping the shop floor to working on Bettenhausen's sprint car. From 1980-1983, Moyer served on the pit crew for Bettenhausen, and he almost missed his high school graduation as he helped Gary Bettenhausen qualify a Lindsey Hopkins car for the Indianapolis 500.
At Arrow McLaren, Moyer will replace Kanaan as the race strategist for Nolan Siegel, allowing Kanaan to work with all three Arrow McLaren drivers on race weekends.
Kanaan told the Associated Press that almost every team in the paddock tried to hire Moyer, but the relationship the two of them have gave McLaren the edge.
'Kyle is one of the best strategists in the paddock, so talking about his qualities, not just about him as a human being, he knows a lot about racing,' Kanaan told the AP. 'Kyle probably is one of the top guys of knowledge of IndyCar. He's been around it his entire life.'
Moyer grew up in Monrovia, Indiana, and was brought into the sport by the Bettenhausen family.
As one Team Penske team member told me Saturday at Road America, it was a matter of when Moyer would return to the IndyCar Paddock, but which team would land his services.
His longtime relationship with Kanaan proved to be a key factor in joining Arrow McLaren.
Although Moyer was one of three Team Penske executives who was dismissed because of the latest scandal that hit the operation, many members inside the IndyCar paddock believe Moyer was highly respected and did not deserve to be dismissed.
But after Team Penske was hit with another rules violation just one year after the 'push-to-pass' scandal, Penske believed a severe message had to be sent to protect the integrity of the series and avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest.
Since November 4, 2019, Penske also owns the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, IndyCar and the Indianapolis 500.
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