AVONDALE, Ariz. — There is no such a thing as a perfect season.

At least that is what Roger Penske told The Associated Press hours after winning his third consecutive NASCAR championship.

Maybe not.

But Team Penske sure came close.

It started in January with a rare show of emotion from “The Captain” — Josef Newgarden said his 87-year-old boss was in tears — after Team Penske won its first Rolex 24 at Daytona endurance race since 1969.

Weeks later, Joey Logano put a Penske car on the pole for the Daytona 500 for the first time in team history. It turned out Logano was wearing an illegal glove for that historic qualifying run — a trick Penske lit into his veteran leader for even trying — but the organization moved on to win nearly everything else in major motorsports this season.

Will Power came up short in the IndyCar championship to three-time champion Alex Palou, and Team Penske didn’t win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but shy of that? Most major trophies say Penske this year.

The IndyCar team — rocked by its own cheating scandal in the season-opening race — won six races and Newgarden claimed a second consecutive Indianapolis 500 victory.

Scott McLaughlin finished third in the final standings.

The sports car program that Penske has built from scratch with partner Porsche last month won the IMSA championship and two weekends ago in Bahrain won the World Endurance Championship. At the same time in Martinsville, Virginia, reigning NASCAR champion Ryan Blaney won the race to put two Penske cars in Sunday’s winner-take-all Cup Series championship at Phoenix Raceway.

A 50% chance is pretty decent odds for any team owner, but Penske was armed with 2022 champion Logano, defending champion Blaney and a shot at winning three straight Cup titles. The organization delivered, with Logano earning his third championship in a closing laps battle with Blaney that gave Penske its first 1-2 NASCAR points finish in team history.

As far as Penske is concerned, this season ranks among the best for an organization that began in 1968.

“Well, I guess you’d have to say it’s probably, if not the best, one of the best,” Penske said.

“I think that obviously not to win the IndyCar championship, which of course it’s where we all started and built our first racing team, was disappointing.”

And there it is, the part about nothing ever being perfect. Penske can still find a shortfall in this otherwise impeccable season that saw the organization win its 100th Cup Series race with Ford; a 20th Indianapolis 500 win; a second career sweep of front row qualifying at Indy; the 100th sports car win and 100th sports car pole for the organization; Logano becoming just the 10th driver in NASCAR history to win three or more titles, and crew chief Paul Wolfe, with 41 victories, now the winningest active team leader in the Cup Series.