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The Sun
25-05-2025
- Automotive
- The Sun
Who won the Indy 500? FULL finishing order, results, crashes and podium for iconic race
THE Indy 500 has concluded after what was another thrilling race on an iconic track! SunSport brings you how every driver finished in this chaotic race in Indianapolis. Indy 500 results Alex Palou came over the line first, and scored himself the victory in the Indy 500. Alex Palou Marcus Ericsson David Malukas Pato O'Ward Felix Rosenqvist Kyle Kirkwood Santino Ferrucci Christian Rasmussen Christian Lundgaard Conor Daly Takuma Sato Callum Ilott Hélio Castroneves Devlin DeFrancesco Louis Foster Nolan Siegel Colton Herta Ed Carpenter Will Power Graham Rahal Marcus Armstrong Jack Harvey Scott Dixon Ryan Hunter-Reay (DNF) Josef Newgarden (DNF) Sting Ray Robb (DNF) Kyle Larson (DNF) Kyffin Simpson (DNF) Robert Shwartzman (DNF) Rinus VeeKay (DNF) Alexander Rossi (DNF) Marco Andretti (DNF) Scott McLaughlin (DNF) Indy 500 prize money The winner's purse has increased steadily in recent years. Newgarden earned $3.666 million in 2023 for his win and that went up to $4.288 million in 2024. His second victory purse included a bonus for being a repeat winner. Organizers do not announce the specifics for the purse until after the race, but we have a good idea of what it could be. If Newgarden wins again, his purse would be slightly bigger than someone else's due to another rollover bonus. All drivers can expect at least $3.8 million which would be in the result of no increase from last year and no rollover bonus. Helio Castroneves' win in 2009 set the record for the most prize money at $3.048 million, and the winner's purse stayed at that total for years. Ericsson's win in 2022 broke that record at $3.1 million before Newgarden's winnings.
USA Today
25-05-2025
- Automotive
- USA Today
How many past Indy 500 winners are in the 2025 race?
How many past Indy 500 winners are in the 2025 race? The Indianapolis 500 is a special race, and any driver will tell you it takes perfect execution of a perfect race strategy, plus a little luck, to win it all. It's one of the most coveted checkered flags in motorsports, and some drivers in the 2025 Indy 500 field already have their names (and faces) on the Borg-Warner Trophy. For the 2025 Indy 500 on Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (12:45 p.m. ET, Fox), there are eight previous Indy 500 winners, led by Hélio Castroneves with a record-tying four victories in 2001, 2002, 2009 and 2021. INDY 500 ODDS: Pato O'Ward and Alex Palou have the best early odds to win the 2025 Indy 500 But he's not even the only multi-time winner this year. Two-time Indy 500 winners Takuma Sato (2017, 2020) and Josef Newgarden (2023, 2024) are also racing Sunday. Other past Indy 500 winners in the 2025 race are: Scott Dixon (2008), Ryan Hunter-Reay (2014), Alexander Rossi (2016), Will Power (2018) and Marcus Ericsson (2022). As Indianapolis Motor Speedway noted, the eight past Indy 500 winners combine for 13 total checkered flags in the race. And while eight certainly is a lot, it's not quite enough to match the 1992 record of 10 former winners in a single field. Besides the first Indy 500 in 1911, the only races with zero Indy 500 winners in the field were in 1912, 1913, 1915 and 1916.
USA Today
20-05-2025
- Automotive
- USA Today
Indy 500 history: Every Indianapolis 500 champion since 2000
Indy 500 history: Every Indianapolis 500 champion since 2000 The Indianapolis 500 is one of the most prestigious motorsports events in the world, and its checkered flag is coveted like no other. So much has to fall into place perfectly for a driver to win the race against the other 32 cars in the field, and one little detail or mistake can be the difference between a glorious victory or absolute heartbreak. But once a driver wins, their name is etched in IndyCar history, and they become embedded in Indy 500 lore. 2025 INDY 500: Every 2025 Indy 500 driver's choice of celebratory milk, should they win When most drivers would do anything to win the Indy 500 one time, several drivers in the last hundred-plus races have won more than once. In the last two decades, those with more than one Indy 500 win include Hélio Castroneves, Juan Pablo Montoya, Dario Franchitti and Takuma Sato. Here's a look back at every driver who has won the iconic race since 2000. 2000 Indy 500: Juan Pablo Montoya, Target/G Force Oldsmobile Starting position: 2 Race speed: 167.607 mph Runner-up: Buddy Lazier 2001 Indy 500: Hélio Castroneves, Marlboro Team Penske/Dallara/Oldsmobile Starting position: 11 Race speed: 141.574 mph Runner-up: Gil de Ferran 2002 Indy 500: Hélio Castroneves, Marlboro Team Penske/Dallara/Chevy Starting position: 13 Race speed: 166.499 mph Runner-up: Paul Tracy 2003 Indy 500: Gil de Ferran, Marlboro Team Penske/G Force/Toyota Starting position: 10 Race speed: 156.291 mph Runner-up: Hélio Castroneves 2004 Indy 500: Buddy Rice, Rahal Letterman Racing/Panoz G Force/Honda Starting position: 1 Race speed: 138.518 mph Runner-up: Tony Kanaan 2005 Indy 500: Dan Wheldon, Andretti Green Racing/Dallara/Honda Starting position: 16 Race speed: 157.603 mph Runner-up: Vitor Meira 2006 Indy 500: Sam Hornish Jr., Marlboro Team Penske/Dallara/Honda Starting position: 1 Race speed: 157.085 mph Runner-up: Marco Andretti 2007 Indy 500: Dario Franchitti, Andretti Green Racing/Dallara/Honda Starting position: 3 Race speed: 151.774 mph Runner-up: Scott Dixon 2008 Indy 500: Scott Dixon, Target Chip Ganassi Racing/Dallara/Honda Starting position: 1 Race speed: 143.567 mph Runner-up: Vitor Meira 2009 Indy 500: Hélio Castroneves, Team Penske/Dallara/Honda Starting position: 1 Race speed: 150.318 mph Runner-up: Dan Wheldon 2010 Indy 500: Dario Franchitti, Target Chip Ganassi Racing/Dallara/Honda Starting position: 3 Race speed: 161.623 mph Runner-up: Dan Wheldon 2011 Indy 500: Dan Wheldon, Bryan Herta Autosport with Curb/Agajanian/Dallara/Honda Starting position: 6 Race speed: 170.265 mph Runner-up: JR Hildebrand 2012 Indy 500: Dario Franchitti, Target Chip Ganassi Racing/Dallara/Honda Starting position: 16 Race speed: 167.734 mph Runner-up: Scott Dixon 2013 Indy 500: Tony Kanaan, KV Racing Technology/Dallara/Chevrolet Starting position: 12 Race speed: 187.433 mph Runner-up: Carlos Muñoz 2014 Indy 500: Ryan Hunter-Reay, DHL Honda/Dallara/Honda Starting position: 19 Race speed: 186.563 mph Runner-up: Hélio Castroneves 2015 Indy 500: Juan Pablo Montoya, Verizon Team Penske/Dallara/Chevrolet Starting position: 15 Race speed: 161.341 mph Runner-up: Will Power 2016: Alexander Rossi, Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian/Dallara/Honda Starting position: 11 Race speed: 166.634 mph Runner-up: Carlos Muñoz 2017 Indy 500: Takuma Sato, Andretti Autosport/Dallara/Honda Starting position: 4 Race speed: 155.395 mph Runner-up: Hélio Castroneves 2018 Indy 500: Will Power, Verizon Team Penske/Dallara/Chevrolet Starting position: 3 Race speed: 166.935 mph Runner-up: Ed Carpenter 2019 Indy 500: Simon Pagenaud, Verizon Team Penske/Dallara/Chevrolet Starting position: 1 Race speed: 175.794 Runner-up: Alexander Rossi 2020 Indy 500: Takuma Sato, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing/Honda Starting position: 3 Race speed: 157.824 mph Runner-up: Scott Dixon 2021 Indy 500: Hélio Castroneves, AutoNation/SiriusXM Meyer Shank Racing/Dallara/Honda Starting position: 8 Race speed: 190.690 mph Runner-up: Alex Palou 2022 Indy 500: Marcus Ericsson, Huski Chocolate Chip Ganassi Racing Starting position: 5 Race speed: 175.428 mph Runner-up: Pato O'Ward 2023 Indy 500: Josef Newgarden, Shell Powering Progress Team Penske Starting position: 17Race speed: 168.193 mphRunner-up: Marcus Ericsson 2024 Indy 500: Josef Newgarden, Shell Powering Progress Team Penske Starting position: 3Race speed: 167.763 mphRunner-up: Pato O'Ward 2025 Indy 500: TBD
USA Today
20-05-2025
- Automotive
- USA Today
Every 2025 Indy 500 driver's choice of celebratory milk, should they win
Every 2025 Indy 500 driver's choice of celebratory milk, should they win After completing a strenuous, multi-hour workout, pretty much the last thing anyone would want is a large bottle of milk. Unless, of course, you're the Indianapolis 500 winner, and in that case, a bottle of milk is all they want. After taking the checkered flag to win the biggest IndyCar Series race of the season and one of the biggest motorsports races in the world, the victorious driver will usually celebrate a bit on the track and with their team before pulling the car to the Winner's Circle. INDIANAPOLIS 500 HISTORY: Every Indy 500 champion since 2000 Enter the Veteran Milk Man, a representative of the American Dairy Association Indiana who will hand the winner a chilled bottle of their preferred kind of milk. The winner usually takes a few sips before dumping it on their head and maybe splashing some folks nearby. Ahead of each Indy 500, the association polls drivers about their celebratory milk choice, should they win The Greatest Spectacle in Racing. The options are simple — whole, 2 percent or fat-free milk — though many drivers hilariously would like a few more options. (There is a secret lactose-free option, should a driver request that.) As we've seen over the years, whole milk continues to dominate with 29 of the 33 drivers selecting it. Four — Hélio Castroneves, Conor Daly, Graham Rahal and Alexander Rossi — opted for 2 percent and, surprisingly, zero want skim. INDY 500 STARTING LINEUP: See the 2025 Indy 500 starting grid with Robert Shwartzman on the pole Why does the Indy 500 winner drink milk? So, why milk? The answer is simple: It's a nearly 100-year-old tradition. And the many traditions of the Indy 500 and Indianapolis Motor Speedway help make the 500 the magical event it is — milk and all. Decades ago when the milk tradition began, it started with buttermilk and driver Louis Meyer. As Indianapolis Motor Speedway explains: "Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Louis Meyer regularly drank buttermilk to refresh himself on a hot day and happened to drink some in Victory Lane as a matter of habit after winning the 1936 race. An executive with what was then the Milk Foundation was so elated when he saw the moment captured in a photograph in the sports section of his newspaper the following morning that he vowed to make sure it would be repeated in coming years. There was a period between 1947-55 when milk was apparently no longer offered, but the practice was revived in 1956 and has been a tradition ever since." Buttermilk is no longer an option, but after the Indy 500, the designated 'milk people' from the American Dairy Association Indiana will pull one of three bottles — one for each milk option — from a chilled cooler, which one of the milk people is sometimes handcuffed to. And they deliver it to the winning driver for the iconic celebration. The 109th Indy 500 is set for Sunday, May 25 (green flag at 12:45 p.m. ET) at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
USA Today
16-02-2025
- Automotive
- USA Today
NASCAR's Open Exemption Provisional allowing Hélio Castroneves to race in the Daytona 500, explained
Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. You may have heard about some recent NASCAR rule changes that allow Hélio Castroneves to compete in the 2025 Daytona 500 and are wondering what's going on. That's OK because we're here to help. Hélio Castroneves is a motorsports legend with an illustrious career that would make any racer envious. Among his many accomplishments, nothing stands out quite like winning four Indianapolis 500s: 2001, 2002, 2009 and 2021. And now, at 49 years old, the Brazilian driver is making the jump to NASCAR with his first Cup Series start in Sunday's Daytona 500 behind the wheel of the No. 91 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet. But his appearance in the biggest race on NASCAR's schedule wasn't guaranteed and is the result of a recent rule change. Let's break it down. NASCAR HISTORY: Every Daytona 500 champion in history (2025 edition) What is NASCAR's new Open Exemption Provisional rule? NASCAR announced several rule changes and updates back in January, and the Open Exemption Provisional, or OEP, was among them. Simply put, the rule allows on a case-by-case basis for world-class drivers to still compete in races, even if they don't qualify for the race through traditional avenues. As NASCAR explained: Competition officials compared the new provisional spot to the 'promoter's choice provisional' that's used in some forms of short-track racing to guarantee a starting spot for a special or invited entrant. The Open Exemption Provisional (OEP) rule would only become a factor if the entry list exceeded the Cup Series' current starting-field maximum of 40 cars, and eligible drivers would need pre-approval by NASCAR on a case-by-case basis – with racing experience and accolades carrying significant weight. Castroneves obviously falls into that category after decades of open-wheeled racing in the IndyCar Series. "If I have to take it, I'll take it." Hélio Castroneves on NASCAR's new Open Exemption Provisional. @NASCARonFOX | #DAYTONA500 — INDYCAR on FOX (@IndyCarOnFOX) February 12, 2025 However, when an OEP entry is used, if the driver wins the race, he or she receives only credit for the win and All-Star Race eligibility — no prize money, points or NASCAR playoff eligibility. Earlier this month, three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin criticized the rule change, calling it a 'a short-term gain, long-term loss' that 'reeks of desperation.' Kyle Busch, however, recognized it could 'bring eyeballs to our sport.' HÉLIO CASTRONEVES: See Hélio Castroneves win his 4th Indy 500 with this thrilling late pass Were more than 40 cars entered in the 2025 Daytona 500? Yes. This week, there were 45 total cars entered in the Daytona 500, competing in qualifying sessions this week for a spot in the race. Normally, the Daytona 500 features 40 cars. The 36 charter teams with full-time Cup drivers were guaranteed spots in the race, and the other nine open-entry drivers competed for the remaining four positions — five if you include the OEP, which would make it a 41-car field. How did Hélio Castroneves qualify for the Daytona 500? Initially, Castroneves was hoping to use NASCAR's standard qualifying procedure — single-car qualifying Wednesday for the pole and two duels Thursday for the starting lineup order — to make the Daytona 500 field. Unfortunately for him, he was involved in an eight-car accident during one of the qualifying duels Thursday, forcing him to use the Open Exemption Provisional. Huge hit for Chandler Smith! 💥 His chances of making the #Daytona500 are over 💔 Helio Castroneves was also involved, but he can fall back on a provisional to make the race. 🎥 @NASCARONFOX — (@Motorsport) February 14, 2025 Trouble for Hélio Castroneves in Duel No. 1 at Daytona. — INDYCAR on FOX (@IndyCarOnFOX) February 14, 2025 So he and the No. 91 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet team will be starting the Daytona 500 dead-last in the 41st position. Nowhere to go but up.
