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25-year-old rookie Robert Shwartzman shocked the IndyCar paddock when he put his No. 83 Prema Racing Chevrolet on pole for the Indianapolis 500 with a four-lap average of 232.790mph. Not only is this Shwartzman's first-ever oval race, it is also the first oval race for Prema, a well-established team in Europe that…

Colton Herta made headlines on Saturday, but not for good reasons. The driver of the No. 26 Andretti Global Honda spun out in turn one on his first flying lap, going completely upside down in a frightening crash. Fortunately, he was unharmed, but the race car was not salvageable. 

Qualifying commences at 11am ET on Saturday, 18 May. Each car is given a single, four-lap run to set an average speed – and goes in an order selected by random draw on Friday night (listed at the bottom of this story).

The 25-year-old Mexican latched on to an early morning tow and hurtled around with a flying lap of 228.861mph to claim the top spot on the leaderboard.

The ex-Formula 1 racer, who moved to Andretti Global’s IndyCar team from Chip Ganassi Racing on the off-season, came within 0.0974s of being the first back-to-back winner of the Indy 500 since Helio Castroneves achieved the feat in 2002. The race was red flagged while he was leading and, instead…