IndyCar Series Detroit Grand Prix channel, start time, leaderboard, crashes, starting grid

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The IndyCar Series runs the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix today, a 100-lap race on a 9-turn, 1.645-mile downtown street layout. Colton Herta won pole position here for the second straight year, and Scott Dixon and Graham Rahal were assessed six-position starting grid penalties for unapproved engine changes.
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Row 1
1, Colton Herta
2, David Malukas
Row 2
3, Kyle Kirkwood
4, Christian Lundgaard
Row 3
5, Alex Palou
6, Rinus Veekay
Row 4
7, Scott McLaughlin
8, Will Power
Row 5
9, Marcus Armstrong
10, Christian Rasmussen
Row 6
11, Graham Rahal (had 5th-best qualifying effort)
12, Marcus Ericsson
Row 7
13, Louis Foster
14, Felix Rosenqvist
Row 8
15, Alexander Rossi
16, Scott Dixon (had 10th-best qualifying result)
Row 9
17, Callum Ilott
18, Pato O'Ward
Row 10
19, Kyffin Simpson
20, Jacob Abel
Row 11
21, Santino Ferrucci
22, Robert Shwartzman
Row 12
23, Devlin DeFrancesco
24, Josef Newgarden
Row 13
25, Conor Daly
26, Sting Ray Robb
Row 14
27, Nolan Siegel
Push-to-pass: 150 total seconds, in increments up to 15 seconds.
Tire allotment: Five sets of primary tires (six for rookies) and five sets of alternate tires. Teams must use one set of primary tires and one set of new alternate tires for at least two laps in the race.
Alex Palou, who has won five of the six races. Kyle Kirkwood has one win.
Scott Dixon avoided the crashes and penalties on the tight downtown street course to come away with his 58th career win.
From Nathan Brown, IndyStar
Picking Alex Palou is so obvious that we're barring him from this portion of the preview for a while. Pato O'Ward sits second and Christian Lundgaard third in points, but they're more than two races' worth of max points behind Palou.
Who makes a move in the points standings? Marcus Ericsson would have been 10th in points after crossing the finish line second in the Indianapolis 500, but he stands 20th after his car failed post-race tech inspection. He earned his lone podium finish in 2024 in Detroit, and with a similar performance this weekend, Ericsson makes up a lot of the ground he lost in the championship standings in Indy.
Something you didn't see coming: At a track where he started on pole last year, but only finished 19th, Detroit seems like as good a track as any for Colton Herta to find some momentum. He sits just 9th in the championship standings with a single top-5 finish. However, the narrow streets of Detroit can be cruel, and somehow Herta and the No. 26 crew leave with a tough result unbecoming of the traditionally dominant street course program of Andretti Global.
(All times ET; all IndyCar sessions are on IndyCar Live, IndyCar Radio and Sirius XM Channel 218)
9:30 a.m.: IndyCar warmup, FS1
10:30 a.m.: Indy NXT race, FS1
12:30 p.m.: IndyCar race, Fox
TV: Coverage begins at 12:30 p.m. ET, Sunday, June 1, 2025, on Fox. Green flag is scheduled for 12:47 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 free with a Fubo trial
IndyCar Nation is on SiriusXM Channel 218, IndyCar Live and the IndyCar Radio Network (check affiliates for each race)
Sunday: Sunny, high around 70 degrees.