A DELIGHTFUL PROBLEM.(Penske Racing Museum makes room for new cars)

Byline: LARRY EDSALL

Gil de Ferran's win in the 2003 Indianapolis 500 created a problem for Pat Hozza.

On Indy Racing League race weekends, Hozza is part of the over-the-wall pit crew for the Penske Racing team. When not at an IRL event, Hozza is in Phoenix, handling day-to-day operations for the new, two-story, 7000-square-foot Penske Racing Museum, where he does everything from making sure each car on the floor is in running order to changing light bulbs and, on the day we visited, adding newly delivered panels for the huge mural that fills the wall next to the stairway.

Hozza's problem after de Ferran's win was finding room for yet another Indy 500-winning car on the museum's increasingly crowded main floor. After all, the only place with more Indy-winning cars than the Penske Racing Museum is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's own Hall of Fame Museum.

The win by de Ferran makes a baker's dozen Indianapolis 500s for Roger Penske, whose museum is the keystone of the United Auto Group's new North Scottsdale mega dealership complex. The sprawling facility covers 41 acres and includes everything from Acura, Aston Martin and Audi to Volkswagen and Volvo, with BMW, Lincoln, Mini and Porsche in between.

The complex includes its own on- and off-road test tracks and even a Starbucks, which is part of the Turn Four Cafe located on the second ...