Spain's Alex Palou may have won the Indianapolis 500, but in the race's opening moments its top newsmaker was New Zealand's Scott McLaughlin.
McLaughlin ignominiously crashed on the race's pace lap—the lap, for the motorsport-agnostic—designed to allow cars to warm up before the race begins. Fox's broadcast and photographers captured the 31-year-old's devastation as his fifth crack at IndyCar's flagship race came to an abrupt end.
