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Scott McLaughlin leads treacherous Fast Friday with 233.9mph lap

Fast Friday quickly lived up to its name. With the boost turned up and maximum horsepower now available to all drivers, Scott McLaughlin rocketed to the top of the charts with a 233.954mph lap. It was more than six miles per hour faster than the previous best lap of the week,…

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Violent crash sends Kyffin Simpson airborne in scary Indy 500 practice shunt

Only 50 minutes into Friday's Indy 500 practice, disaster struck for Kyffin Simpson and the No. 8 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda. Several drivers had already breached 230mph in lap averages with the boost turned up, including Scott McLaughlin, who nearly reached 234mph over the course of a lap.

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Alex Palou leads the way in Day 2 of Indy 500 practice

Rain was once again a topic of discussion Wednesday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, limiting track time for the 34 drivers and teams. Tony Kanaan's veteran refresher test was also postponed to Thursday.

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Will Power leads rain-affected Indy 500 practice at 227mph

After a lengthy rain delay, the Indy 500 field finally got on track just after 2:30pm EST. The circuit was made available to all teams, with drivers able to fit about three hours of practice into their day until a nearby lightning strike ended things about 30 minutes early. The…

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Complete Indy 500 schedule: How to watch, start times, entry list

The Month of May means one thing for race fans -- The Greatest Spectacle in Racing. 34 drivers will be competing for 33 spots on the 2025 Indianapolis 500 grid with a lot of practice leading up to qualifying and race day. There are eight former Indy 500 winners and…

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Will Power: Alex Palou Indy 500 win “would be one of the greatest motorsports moments"

Every driver wants to win, no matter what. That is what they work and dream for every day. So what Alex Palou has been doing in the 2025 IndyCar season—winning four of the first five races, with a second-place finish in the remaining one—is something no one in the field…

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Alex Palou dominates IndyCar field, extends winning streak at the IMS Road Course

For a brief spell, it looked like Alex Palou might actually be beatable on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. The pole-sitter lost the lead just after the green flag flew and spent most of the race running in the tire tracks of Graham Rahal.

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How a lockup didn’t stop Alex Palou from smoking his IndyCar rivals in IMS qualifying

Alex Palou added another milestone to his impressive 2025 IndyCar season on Friday when he posted the largest difference for a pole-deciding lap in more than two years. The gap? A significant 0.4099s over Graham Rahal in the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing #15 car.

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Alex Palou knows his IndyCar winning streak can't last forever

For a man who has won three of the last four IndyCar championships, it should come as no surprise that Alex Palou is leading the standings as the series heads into another weekend of racing with the Sonsio Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

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Scott McLaughlin on Alex Palou's supreme form: “We'll be strong at places he won't”

Scott McLaughlin entered the IndyCar season as a top contender for the championship, coming off back-to-back top-three finishes in both the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Now, four races into the 2025 season, he's not about to let that tag be taken away.

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Alex Palou calls IndyCar at Barber win 'probably my best race' of all time

Will anyone be able to stop Alex Palou in IndyCar this year? It doesn't look possible at the moment after the driver of the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing car scored a resounding victory in the Children's of Alabama Indy Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park, finishing 16 seconds ahead of…

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Unstoppable Alex Palou leaves Barber with third IndyCar win of the season

Alex Palou wins IndyCar race at Barber Motorsports Park, leading from pole and finishing over 15 seconds ahead of the rest of the field.

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Felix Rosenqvist feels closer to victory as he prepares for 100th IndyCar start

Consistency is the name of the game for Felix Rosenqvist, who began the 2025 IndyCar season with three top-seven finishes and his best start in the series in his second year aboard the No. 60 Honda of Meyer Shank Racing, ranking fourth in the standings. Now, as the IndyCar field heads…

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Scott McLaughlin fastest as speeds top 232mph in Day 2 Indy 500 open test

IndyCar teams spent most of the morning performing mock qualifying runs around the 2.5-mile speedway with Team Penske's Scott McLaughlin running the single fastest lap as the Kiwi reached 232.686mph.

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Scott Dixon leads Day 1 of Indy 500 open test at 225mph

A late flyer vaulted Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon to the top of the speed charts, leading the way at 225.182mph. The 2008 Indy 500 winner bested the two-time and defending Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden, who ran as fast a 225.125mph around the iconic 2.5-mile circuit in his No. 2…

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Kyle Kirkwood snags second IndyCar Long Beach pole to claim an Andretti 1-2

Kyle Kirkwood takes pole position in Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, Andretti Global scores front-row lockout with Colton Herta.

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Alex Palou pounces late at Thermal Club for back-to-back IndyCar wins

Alex Palou wins IndyCar Grand Prix at Thermal Club, his 13th IndyCar victory, after a late charge from third to first.

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How Dixon's woes gave Palou an unlikely victory in the 2025 IndyCar opener

Chip Ganassi Racing has a multi-champion superstar capable of extracting wins from what seem the most impossible of circumstances. Scratch that: it has two of them, because Alex Palou is a Catalan clone of Scott Dixon. Reigning title holder Palou bobbed around in the mix for over half of the IndyCar…

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IndyCar on FOX Sports: Is this new era of race coverage off to a good start?

The NTT IndyCar Series’ new era is alive and well with FOX Sports. But there’s plenty of room for improvement this season after the broadcast for the opening race at St. Petersburg wrapped up.

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The winners and losers of 2025’s IndyCar season opener at St. Pete

More than five months removed from the 2024 season finale in Nashville, the NTT IndyCar Series finally returned to life in St. Petersburg, Florida. Between the start of a new era with FOX Sports and a strategy-heavy street race, there was much to discuss leaving the weekend.

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Chip Ganassi Racing partners with OpenAI in first motorsports venture for AI company

Chip Ganassi Racing on Friday said it has partnered on a strategic research collaboration with OpenAI — a deal that makes the two-time reigning IndyCar championship winning team the first to bring in a partner from the artificial intelligence field

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Everything you need to know as the 2025 IndyCar season kicks off in St. Pete

Welcome to the 2025 IndyCar season! Within just the first few laps put down in St. Petersburg, Florida this weekend... Chip Ganassi's Alex Palou will be fighting for a fourth IndyCar title while his veteran teammate Scott Dixon continues to chase a record-tying seventh crown for himself. And they aren't the…

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Scott Dixon teases his own potential future Daytona 500 attempt

If you didn't tune in to watch FOX Sports' coverage Saturday afternoon, then you missed cameras cutting to a casually-clad Scott Dixon, who is hanging around Daytona International Speedway this weekend as friend and guest to Jimmie Johnson for the 67th running of the Daytona 500. And it appears his…

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IndyCar's top 5 storylines of the 2024 season

North America's premier open-wheel series had a good year. Really. 2024 brought with it huge partnership announcements like IndyCar's multi-year agreement with FOX. Then there's Prema — a storied feeder team for racing greats — joining the ranks next season, and a new race on the horizon set for Texas…

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Counting down the top five best IndyCar races of 2024

The checkered flag is waving on 2024, and what was an exciting season for the IndyCar series. This year saw the first back-to-back Indy 500 champion crowned since Helio Castroneves accomplished the feat back in 2002. Chip Ganassi Racing's Alex Palou also nabbed his own back-to-back victory — taking home the…

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