IndyCar live race updates, crashes at Indianapolis Motor Speedway today; Alex Palou starts from pole

Indianapolis Star

10-05-2025

The IndyCar field is chasing Alex Palou again today.
Palou — the two-time defending series champ who has won three of four races in 2025 — starts from the pole position in the Sonsio Grand Prix, an 85-lap race on the 14-turn, 2.439-mile layout on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. In a surprise, all three Rahal Letterman Lanigan cars qualified in the Fast Six.
Drivers will be allowed 200 seconds of push-to-pass, in increments of up to 20 seconds. Each car must run two sets of primary and two sets of alternate tires during the race, running at least two laps on each set (and at least one of the laps for each lap starting under green). This is new to IndyCar for this race.
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Each driver must use two sets of primary tires and two sets of alternates. Here is how they will start.
Santino Ferrucci blew an engine in the morning warm-up and his team scurried to replace it. Andretti Global's Colton Herta and Kyle Kirkwood struggled with mechanical gremlins.
Row 1
2. Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan
Row 2
3. Louis Foster, Rahal Letterman Lanigan
4. Scott McLaughlin, Team Penske
Row 3
5. Devlin DeFrancesco, Rahal Letterman Lanigan
6. Josef Newgarden, Team Penske
Row 4
7. Will Power, Team Penske
8. Pato O'Ward, Arrow McLaren
Row 5
9. Alexander Rossi, Ed Carpenter
10. Kyffin Simpson, Chip Ganassi
Row 6
11. Santino Ferrucci, A.J. Foyt
12. Felix Rosenqvist, Meyer Shank
Row 7
13. Colton Herta, Andretti Global
14. Christian Lundgaard, Arrow McLaren
Row 8
15. Marcus Armstrong, Meyer Shank
16. Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi
Row 9
17. Sting Ray Robb, Juncos Hollinger
18. Nolan Siegel, Arrow McLaren
Row 10
19. Christian Rasmussen, Ed Carpenter
20. Marcus Ericsson, Andretti Global
Row 11
21. Kyle Kirkwood, Andretti Global
22. Conor Daly, Juncos Hollinger
Row 12
23. Callum Ilott, Prema
24. Rinus VeeKay, Dale Coyne
Row 13
25. Jacob Abel, Dale Coyne
26. David Malukas, A.J. Foyt
Row 14
27. Robert Shwartzman, Prema
Qualifying report: Recap of each round on IMS road course
From Nathan Brown, IndyStar
Race winner: Alex Palou. Boring pick? You bet. But until proven otherwise, I'm going to stop picking against the two-time defending series champ who has won three of the first four races – two in truly dominating fashion. Palou has also won the past two IMS road course races, and Chip Ganassi Racing has won the last three.
Palou's winning margin: We're adding a category because "race winner" seems too easy. Let's go with 4 seconds. Odds are we finally get our first caution since Lap 1 at St. Pete, and so what could have been a larger victory is a bit smaller, though plenty comfortable.
Something you might not expect: A yellow flag. We see our first caution in 339 laps, and it comes on Lap 1 as the mid-pack weaves through the opening chicane and can't stay side-by-side cleanly before reaching the backstretch.
(All times ET; all IndyCar sessions are on IndyCar Live, IndyCar Radio and Sirius XM Channel 218)
11:30 a.m.-noon: IndyCar warm up, FS1
1-2 p.m.: Indy NXT race, FS1
4:30-7 p.m.: IndyCar race, Fox
General admission tickets are $45 for Saturday; reserved seats start at $55. Get Indianapolis Grand Prix tickets here.
TV: Coverage begins at 4:30 p.m. ET, Saturday, May 10, 2025, on Fox. Green flag is scheduled for 4:52 p.m. Will Buxton is the play-by-play voice, with analysts James Hinchcliffe and Townsend Bell. Kevin Lee and Jack Harvey are the pit reporters.
FoxSports.com, Fox Sports app.
Watch with a Fubo free trial
IndyCar Nation is on SiriusXM Channel 218, IndyCar Live and the IndyCar Radio Network (check affiliates for each race)
Saturday: Sunny skies and highs in the mid 70s.
The 2025 IndyCar Series schedule includes 17 races, all televised on Fox. (Times are ET; %-downtown street course, &-road course, *-oval)
March 2, St. Petersburg, Florida % (Winner: Alex Palou)
March 23, Thermal, California & (Winner: Alex Palou)
April 13, Long Beach, California % (Winner: Kyle Kirkwood)
May 4, Birmingham, Alabama & (Winner: Alex Palou)
May 10, Indianapolis &, 4:30 p.m.
May 25, Indianapolis 500 *, 12:45 p.m.
June 1, Detroit %, 12:30 p.m.
June 15, St. Louis *, 3 p.m.
June 22, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin &, 2:30 p.m.
July 6, Lexington, Ohio &, 2 p.m.
July 12, Newton, Iowa *, 5 p.m.
July 13, Newton, Iowa *, 2 p.m.
July 20, Toronto %, 2 p.m.
July 27, Monterey, California &, 3 p.m.
Aug. 10, Portland &, 3 p.m.
Aug. 24, Milwaukee *, 2 p.m.
Aug. 31, Nashville *, 2:30 p.m.
(Team and drivers; *-Indianapolis 500 only)
(Through four of 17 races)
2024: Alex Palou (Indy GP)
2023: Alex Palou (Indy GP), Scott Dixon (Gallagher GP)
2022: Colton Herta (Indy GP), Alexander Rossi (Gallagher GP)
2021: Rinus Veekay (Indy GP), Will Power (Gallagher GP)
2020: Scott Dixon (Indy GP), Josef Newgarden (Harvest GP1), Will Power (Harvest GP2)
2019: Simon Pagenaud (Indy GP)
2018: Will Power (Indy GP)
2017: Will Power (Indy GP)
2016: Simon Pagenaud (Indy GP)
2015: Will Power (Indy GP)