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Fox Sports
30-04-2025
- Automotive
- Fox Sports
2025 Indy 500 Entry List: All 34 drivers and 12 teams
The field for the 2025 Indy 500 is taking shape, with teams across the NTT INDYCAR SERIES announcing their entries for this year's race. From returning champions to exciting rookies, here's the full Indy 500 entry list, including all the confirmed drivers set to compete at the Brickyard. 2025 Indy 500 Entry List Josef Newgarden (#2, Team Penske) Scott McLaughlin (#3, Team Penske) David Malukas (#4, A.J. Foyt Racing) Pato O'Ward (#5, Arrow McLaren) Nolan Siegel (#6, Arrow McLaren) Hélio Castroneves (#06, Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian) Christian Lundgaard (#7, Arrow McLaren) Kyffin Simpson (#8, Chip Ganassi Racing) Scott Dixon (#9, Chip Ganassi Racing) Álex Palou (#10, Chip Ganassi Racing) Will Power (#12, Team Penske) Santino Ferrucci (#14, A.J. Foyt Racing) Graham Rahal (#15, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) Kyle Larson (#17, Arrow McLaren with Rick Hendrick) Rinus VeeKay (#18, Dale Coyne Racing) Alexander Rossi (#20, Ed Carpenter Racing) Christian Rasmussen (#21, Ed Carpenter Racing) Ryan Hunter-Reay (#23, DRR-Cusick Motorsports) Jack Harvey (#24, DRR-Cusick Motorsports) Colton Herta (#26, Andretti Global with Curb-Agajanian) Kyle Kirkwood (#27, Andretti Global) Marcus Ericsson (#28, Andretti Global) Devlin DeFrancesco (#30, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) Ed Carpenter (#33, Ed Carpenter Racing) Louis Foster (#45, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) Jacob Abel (#51, Dale Coyne Racing) Felix Rosenqvist (#60, Meyer Shank Racing) Marcus Armstrong (#66, Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian) Takuma Sato (#75, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) Conor Daly (#76, Juncos Hollinger Racing) Sting Ray Robb (#77, Juncos Hollinger Racing) Robert Shwartzman (#83, Prema Racing) Callum Ilott (#90, Prema Racing) Marco Andretti (#98, Andretti Global) Watch the best highlights from the NTT INDYCAR SERIES: Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. Get more from NTT INDYCAR SERIES Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more in this topic
Fox Sports
09-04-2025
- Automotive
- Fox Sports
Inside Line: Most Memorable Grand Prix of Long Beach?
INDYCAR Today's question: What was your most memorable edition of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, which celebrates its 50th edition April 11-13? Curt Cavin: I've covered close to 500 series races since the late 1980s, and I'm hard-pressed to remember many outside of Indy that were more memorable than Ryan Hunter-Reay's 2010 victory at Long Beach. Time has a way of making us forget where Hunter-Reay was at that point in his career. He didn't have an INDYCAR SERIES ride in 2006 or for most of 2007, and he drove for three different series teams over the next two-plus seasons. He had joined Andretti Autosport for the start of the 2010 season, but it was billed as sponsor-dependent, and IZOD was new to the sport. But Hunter-Reay won Long Beach to really revive his career. For 12 years he was a foundational piece of the organization, winning 15 races, including the 2014 Indianapolis 500, and becoming a series champion (2012). That Long Beach victory also came at an emotional point in his personal life as he had lost his mother, Lydia, to colon cancer only five months prior. Eric Smith: Similar to Curt, I'm going to go with a jolt of energy for a winner, and that race happens to be three years later, in 2013. Takuma Sato joined the list of prestigious winners, leading 50 of 80 laps to score his first INDYCAR SERIES victory. That was AJ Foyt Racing's first victory since 2002 and catapulted both driver and team to relevance. Paul Kelly: I'll go with the 2008 edition of the race. It was far from a classic, as Will Power led 81 of 83 laps. But it was perhaps the most surreal of the 50 Grands Prix of Long Beach. Champ Car and the Indy Racing League had agreed earlier that year to merge, ending 12 years of a split sport, with Long Beach as the final Champ Car race. INDYCAR already had scheduled a race for that weekend in Motegi, Japan, so staff was split between the two events. I worked the Champ Car race in Long Beach, which definitely had an 'end of the school year' feel about it. During that weekend, Danica Patrick made history at Motegi by becoming the only woman to win an INDYCAR SERIES race. I vividly remember her being whisked across the Pacific to Long Beach from Japan to meet the media on Long Beach race day and talk about her historic Motegi victory, which frankly attracted way more attention than what was happening that day on the streets of Long Beach even though that race marked the official end of 'The Split.' I also remember seeing Power dominate under the Southern California sunshine that day in a race with no cautions and every car running at the finish and thinking, 'That guy is pretty good; some IRL team is bound to pick him up, right?' That team was Team Penske, and the rest, as they say, is history … recommended
Fox Sports
08-04-2025
- Automotive
- Fox Sports
2025 INDYCAR odds: Alex Palou favored to win Grand Prix of Long Beach
INDYCAR heads back to California this weekend for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, and fans can watch the exciting action on FOX. Fans can also dive into the odds for this weekend's race and wager on which driver they think has what it takes to get into victory lane. Alex Palou won the first two races of the season at St. Petersburg and at The Thermal Club and is favored to win again this weekend. Will he make it three in a row? Let's dive into the odds at DraftKings Sportsbook as of April 8. Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Alex Palou: 9/4 (bet $10 to win $32.50 total) Josef Newgarden: 9/2 (bet $10 to win $55 total) Colton Herta: 13/2 (bet $10 to win $75 total) Will Power : 8/1 (bet $10 to win $90 total) Scott McLaughlin: 8/1 (bet $10 to win $90 total) Pato O'Ward: 8/1 (bet $10 to win $90 total) Kyle Kirkwood: 9/1 (bet $10 to win $100 total) Scott Dixon: 10/1 (bet $10 to win $110 total) Christian Lundgaard: 10/1 (bet $10 to win $110 total) Marcus Ericsson: 14/1 (bet $10 to win $150 total) Felix Rosenqvist: 25/1 (bet $10 to win $260 total) Alexander Rossi: 25/1 (bet $10 to win $260 total) Marcus Armstrong: 40/1 (bet $10 to win $410 total) Rinus Veekay: 50/1 (bet $10 to win $510 total) Graham Rahal: 50/1 (bet $10 to win $510 total) David Malukas: 50/1 (bet $10 to win $510 total) Louis Foster: 80/1 (bet $10 to win $810 total) Santino Ferrucci: 100/1 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total) Conor Daly: 100/1 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total) Christian Rasmussen: 130/1 (bet $10 to win $1,310 total) Nolan Siegel: 150/1 (bet $10 to win $1,510 total) Devlin DeFrancesco: 150/1 (bet $10 to win $1,510 total) Callum Ilott: 150/1 (bet $10 to win $1,510 total) Robert Shwartzman: 200/1 (bet $10 to win $2,010 total) Kyffin Simpson: 200/1 (bet $10 to win $2,010 total) Jacob Abel: 200/1 (bet $10 to win $2,010 total) Sting Ray Robb: 300/1 (bet $10 to win $3,010 total) Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account , and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily! Get more from NTT INDYCAR SERIES Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more
Fox Sports
07-04-2025
- Automotive
- Fox Sports
Gearing Up: Big Week Ahead at Long Beach
INDYCAR It's a certified big week for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES when walk of fame inductions are part of the festivities. The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach will be held for the 50th time this weekend, highlighted by the third race of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES season on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. ET on FOX. Next to the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge, Long Beach is the longest continuously held event on the calendar. Since 1984, races have been staged with much of the glitz that comes with being located just down the road from Hollywood. The only break in the event's history was in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic prevented large urban gatherings such as this one from being held. Long Beach is one of Southern California's premier sports spectacles and North America's most famous street race. Last year, officials announce a record attendance of 194,000 for the three days of on-track action. Some of the biggest names in the sport's history have won on what is now an 11-turn, 1.964-mile street circuit. Mario Andretti won three of the first four races, including the first two, while his son, Michael, won twice as a driver and six times as a team owner. Al Unser Jr. holds the record for most INDYCAR SERIES wins by a driver with six. Team Penske and Chip Ganassi Racing have seven Long Beach wins each, including two of the past three. Last year, CGR's Scott Dixon won for the second time in the most dramatic of fashions, holding off Andretti Autosport's Colton Herta, Team Penske's Josef Newgarden and teammate Alex Palou in a late-race dogfight. This week, Dixon will be inducted in the Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame as a two-time winner of the event. He also won in 2015. Other Walk of Fame inductees this week include Jim Michaelian, the longtime president and CEO of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach, and three-term Long Beach Mayor Beverly O'Neill, who never missed a grand prix in her 12 years in office. Long Beach was the site of Kyle Kirkwood's first NTT INDYCAR SERIES race win in 2023, and he will arrive in Southern California solidly in championship contention in sixth place. Newgarden won this event in 2022. Herta, Ed Carpenter Racing's Alexander Rossi (twice) and Team Penske's Will Power (twice) are former Long Beach winners competing in this field. While Long Beach always offers significant star power, the brightest star in this series is currently Palou. He has won the first two races of the season and will look to become the first driver since Dixon in 2020 to win the first three races of the year. Prior to that, it was Sebastien Bourdais winning the first four races of the 2006 Champ Car World Series races. Palou will be seeking his first Long Beach victory. He has finished third twice, including last year, and all four of his finishes have been within the top five. A win also makes him a candidate for a future place in the event's walk of fame. But that's for another day. The first NTT INDYCAR SERIES practice of the weekend is Friday at 6:05 p.m. ET. Saturday's action includes the second series practice at 11:30 a.m. ET and qualifying for the NTT P1 Award at 2:35 p.m. ET. Sunday's warmup is set for noon ET. All of this action will be available on FS1 and the INDYCAR Radio Network. The 90-lap race has its green flag slated for 4:40 p.m. ET. recommended
Fox Sports
04-04-2025
- Automotive
- Fox Sports
Golden Memories: Five Magic Moments at Long Beach
INDYCAR The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach celebrates its 50th running during this year's race weekend April 11-13. This year, 27 NTT INDYCAR SERIES drivers will attempt to win the prestigious street race on the shores of the Pacific Ocean and in the shadow of the Queen Mary ocean liner. The 1.968-mile, 11-turn street circuit is an iconic event rooted in history. Here are five of the most memorable moments of the annual event that began in 1975 as a Formula 5000 race, transitioned to a Formula One race weekend from 1976-1983 and then a CART/Champ Car/INDYCAR SERIES race from 1984 to present. Herta Charges From 14th To Win 2021 Race The first race at Long Beach since 2019 settled the championship, too. The 2020 race was canceled as part of the COVID-19 safety measures. The 2021 return was moved from the traditional early-season slot in April to the Sept. 26 season finale due to pandemic-related precautions still in place. Colton Herta put on a thrilling show that day, charging from 14th to secure his first and only Long Beach victory so far in his career. Herta's furious charge only took 31 laps to get to the lead. Alex Palou earned his first championship that day in his first season with Chip Ganassi Racing by finishing fourth. Zanardi Rallies from Lap Down To Win 1998 Race Alex Zanardi earned a second consecutive Long Beach victory in miraculous fashion in 1998. Contact early in the race resulted in a bent steering arm and a loss of a lap for Zanardi. A race-record seven caution periods allowed him to get back in contention. Zanardi charged to third in the closing laps. With five laps to go, the top three were blanketed, and Zanardi passed Dario Franchitti for second. Three laps later, he passed Bryan Herta for the lead and led the final two laps to earn the win. Little Al Holds Off Frustrated Andrettis for 1989 Victory Al Unser Jr. dominated most of the 1989 race, leading 72 of the opening 74 laps. However, the father-son duo of Mario and Michael Andretti caught Unser, setting up a dramatic fight of Little Al vs. Mario and Michael for the victory. Mario emerged from the pits as the leader on Lap 78. Unser was the meat in the Andretti sandwich, with Michael third. Approaching the lapped car of Tom Sneva, Unser dove under Mario for the lead, but contact between the two sent the elder Andretti spinning with damage. Unser also had light cosmetic damage and nursed his car to the victory over Michael Andretti. Unser vs. Sullivan for 1992 Victory Al Unser Jr. was going for his fifth Long Beach win in a row, but his Galles/KRACO Racing teammate Danny Sullivan had other thoughts. Unser led 54 laps but tangled with Sullivan with four laps to go, sending his car into the tire barriers. Sullivan escaped without damage and held off Bobby Rahal and Emerson Fittipaldi for his first INDYCAR SERIES victory since 1990. Unser emerged from the tires to finish fourth. Also, Mario Andretti and Eddie Cheever had an opening-lap collision, sparking a feud. Andretti Battles Unser Jr. For Maiden Victory In 1986 The list of Long Beach winners is an exclusive club reserved for the series best. Still, plenty of legendary drivers earned their first career INDYCAR SERIES victory at Long Beach, including Michael Andretti, who was the first to do so in 1986. Andretti outdueled Al Unser Jr. in a dramatic battle. Andretti made a pit stop for the final time on Lap 56 while Unser did so 14 laps later. The overcut allowed Unser to remain in the lead, but Andretti was in pursuit. He passed Unser for the lead on Lap 70 but caught Roberto Moreno, eventually lapping him on Lap 80. That allowed Unser to catch up, ensuing an intense fight for the win. Andretti toped Unser by .380 of a second. Paul Tracy, Juan Pablo Montoya, Mike Conway, Takuma Sato and Kyle Kirkwood each earned their maiden INDYCAR SERIES victories at Long Beach, too. The event also was the site of Andretti's 42nd and final victory in 2002. recommended
