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USA Today
3 days ago
- Automotive
- USA Today
IndyCar Series 2025 drivers championship, Rookie of the Year, Leaders Circle standings after Toronto
The 2025 IndyCar Series season is busy and Alex Palou has won seven races, most notably the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Kyle Kirkwood has won three, Pato O'Ward two and Scott Dixon one. Here's where the drivers and teams stand in the season-long points, Rookie of the Year and Leaders Circle races. Report from Toronto: IndyCar Ontario Honda Dealers Indy complete results IndyCar Series championship points 2025 (Through 13 of 17 races) IndyCar Series rookie points With four races to go, Prema Racing's Robert Shwartzman erased a five-point deficit to Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing's Louis Foster on Sunday by virtue of his 16th-place finish, tied for the Prema driver's third-best finish of his young IndyCar career. Foster finished 21st, 23 laps down after a lengthy stop for repairs. Dale Coyne Racing's Jacob Abel finished 23rd after sliding into the outside wall on Turn 1 exit and sparking a multi-car crash. IndyCar Series Leaders Circle standings 2025 IndyCar's Leaders Circle program pays eligible teams just over $1 million the following season in guarantees. To qualify for one of the 22 spots, the entry must be associated with one of IndyCar's 25 charters — teams are allowed to have a maximum of three. Only Prema Racing's two cars remain unchartered. The 25 chartered cars are then ranked by entrant points and, at the end of this season, the top 22 eligible entries will be paid $1.2 million or more by Penske Entertainment throughout the 2026 season. Here are the cars around the bubble after IndyCar's Toronto race: 21. Arrow McLaren No. 6, 168 points points 22. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing No. 45, 159 points ------------------------------------------------------------- 23. Juncos Hollinger Racing No. 77, 133 points 24. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing No. 30, 123 points 25. Dale Coyne Racing No. 51, 95 points
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
IndyCar Series 2025 drivers championship, Rookie of the Year, Leaders Circle standings after Toronto
The 2025 IndyCar Series season is busy and Alex Palou has won seven races, most notably the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Kyle Kirkwood has won three, Pato O'Ward two and Scott Dixon one. Here's where the drivers and teams stand in the season-long points, Rookie of the Year and Leaders Circle races. Report from Toronto: IndyCar Ontario Honda Dealers Indy complete results IndyCar Series championship points 2025 (Through 13 of 17 races) Alex Palou, 536 points Pato O'Ward, 437 Kyle Kirkwood, 363 Scott Dixon, 362 Christian Lundgaard, 317 Felix Rosenqvist, 309 Marcus Armstrong, 283 Colton Herta, 278 Will Power, 263 David Malukas, 259 Rinus Veekay, 252 Santino Ferrucci, 240 Scott McLaughlin, 239 Kyffin Simpson, 226 Christian Rasmussen, 217 Josef Newgarden, 213 Conor Daly, 199 Alexander Rossi, 199 Marcus Ericsson, 195 Graham Rahal, 195 Nolan Siegel, 168 Robert Shwartzman, 159 Louis Foster, 159 Callum Ilott, 135 Sting Ray Robb, 133 Devlin DeFrancesco, 123 Jacob Abel, 95 Takuma Sato, 36 Helio Castroneves, 20 Ed Carpenter, 16 Jack Harvey, 12 Ryan Hunter-Reay, 10 Kyle Larson, 6 Marco Andretti, 5 IndyCar Series rookie points With four races to go, Prema Racing's Robert Shwartzman erased a five-point deficit to Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing's Louis Foster on Sunday by virtue of his 16th-place finish, tied for the Prema driver's third-best finish of his young IndyCar career. Foster finished 21st, 23 laps down after a lengthy stop for repairs. Dale Coyne Racing's Jacob Abel finished 23rd after sliding into the outside wall on Turn 1 exit and sparking a multi-car crash. Robert Shwartzman, 159 points Louis Foster, 159 points Jacob Abel, 95 points IndyCar Series Leaders Circle standings 2025 IndyCar's Leaders Circle program pays eligible teams just over $1 million the following season in guarantees. To qualify for one of the 22 spots, the entry must be associated with one of IndyCar's 25 charters — teams are allowed to have a maximum of three. Only Prema Racing's two cars remain unchartered. The 25 chartered cars are then ranked by entrant points and, at the end of this season, the top 22 eligible entries will be paid $1.2 million or more by Penske Entertainment throughout the 2026 season. Here are the cars around the bubble after IndyCar's Toronto race: 21. Arrow McLaren No. 6, 168 points points 22. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing No. 45, 159 points ------------------------------------------------------------- 23. Juncos Hollinger Racing No. 77, 133 points 24. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing No. 30, 123 points 25. Dale Coyne Racing No. 51, 95 points This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Who won the IndyCar race today? Toronto results, driver rankings
Indianapolis Star
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Indianapolis Star
IndyCar Series 2025 drivers championship, Rookie of the Year, Leaders Circle standings after Toronto
The 2025 IndyCar Series season is busy and Alex Palou has won seven races, most notably the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Kyle Kirkwood has won three, Pato O'Ward two and Scott Dixon one. Here's where the drivers and teams stand in the season-long points, Rookie of the Year and Leaders Circle races. Report from Toronto: IndyCar Ontario Honda Dealers Indy complete results (Through 13 of 17 races) With four races to go, Prema Racing's Robert Shwartzman erased a five-point deficit to Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing's Louis Foster on Sunday by virtue of his 16th-place finish, tied for the Prema driver's third-best finish of his young IndyCar career. Foster finished 21st, 23 laps down after a lengthy stop for repairs. Dale Coyne Racing's Jacob Abel finished 23rd after sliding into the outside wall on Turn 1 exit and sparking a multi-car crash. IndyCar's Leaders Circle program pays eligible teams just over $1 million the following season in guarantees. To qualify for one of the 22 spots, the entry must be associated with one of IndyCar's 25 charters — teams are allowed to have a maximum of three. Only Prema Racing's two cars remain unchartered. The 25 chartered cars are then ranked by entrant points and, at the end of this season, the top 22 eligible entries will be paid $1.2 million or more by Penske Entertainment throughout the 2026 season. Here are the cars around the bubble after IndyCar's Toronto race: 21. Arrow McLaren No. 6, 168 points points 22. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing No. 45, 159 points ------------------------------------------------------------- 23. Juncos Hollinger Racing No. 77, 133 points 24. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing No. 30, 123 points
Indianapolis Star
4 days ago
- Automotive
- Indianapolis Star
IndyCar Ontario Honda Dealers Indy at Toronto qualifying, starting lineup, time
Colton Herta wins pole position for the IndyCar Series race in downtown Toronto. Series points leader Alex Palou also qualifies for the front row of the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy, a 90-lap race on a 1.786-mile layout. Herta won from the pole in 2024, edging front-row starter Kyle Kirkwood at the finish line, with Scott Dixon completing the podium. Dixon has four wins on this layout, most recently in 2022. Will Power has three and Josef Newgarden two. Nathan Brown is your best IndyCar follow, and keep up with coverage throughout the season with IndyStar's motorsports newsletter. Row 1 1, Colton Herta 2, Alex Palou Row 2 3, Marcus Armstrong 4, Will Power Row 3 5, Graham Rahal 6, Kyle Kirkwood Row 4 7, Louis Foster 8, Marcus Ericsson Row 5 9, Rinus Veekay 10, Pato O'Ward Row 6 11, Scott Dixon (he will face a 6-spot grid penalty for Sunday's race) 12, Callum Ilott Row 7 13, Nolan Siegel 14, Kyffin Simpson Row 8 15, Scott McLaughlin 16, David Malukas Row 9 17, Felix Rosenqvist 18, Josef Newgarden Row 10 19, Christian Lundgaard 20, Robert Shwartzman Row 11 21, Conor Daly 22, Christian Rasmussen Row 12 23, Santino Ferrucci 24, Alexander Rossi Row 13 25, Sting Ray Robb 26, Devlin DeFrancesco Row 14 27, Jacob Abel Alex Palou, has won seven races, Kyle Kirkwood three, and Scott Dixon and Pato O'Ward one each. Palou's 129-point lead over second-place O'Ward is more than two races of max points. Will Power and Colton Herta are tied for 8th with 244 points. Who comes out of Toronto ahead? We've seen it twice this year, and it's largely been the case the last couple years: The Andretti Global street course package is on another level, as we saw last year with Herta and teammate Kyle Kirkwood ran 1-2 for all but four laps of the 85 run on the streets of Toronto (with those four solely coming through pit exchanges). Herta won the last race here and has two poles and three podiums in his last three starts at Toronto. Though there's always a chance that disaster strikes, I'm going to take the odds on Herta. Santino Ferrucci and David Malukas, A.J. Foyt teammates, are tied for 10th with 237 points. Who comes out of Toronto ahead? Although Ferrucci has finished six of the eight road or street course races better than Malukas, the performance I saw across at the Detroit Grand Prix weekend (other than Malukas' tap to the rear of Alex Palou that earned Malukas an essentially day-ending penalty) leads me to think he has an edge. If he can keep his nose clean and this race doesn't deliver too much chaos — like the ways in which Ferrucci flipped the script for his podiums at Detroit and Road America — I like Malukas this weekend. Josef Newgarden and Christian Rasmussen are tied for 14th with 207 points. Who comes out of Toronto ahead? Before a mechanical failure ended his day at Detroit, Rasmussen was on for an incredibly strong showing — and then again, Newgarden had to fight hard just for a 9th-place finish there. Both these drivers — and their cars and teams — have shown volatility lately, in terms of results. So give me the veteran driver and more historically successful team. I don't think it's that ever-elusive 2025 win Newgarden continues to hunt, but a top-10 is reasonable, and I'm marginally less confident Rasmussen can match it. (All times ET; all IndyCar sessions are on IndyCar Live, IndyCar Radio and Sirius XM Channel 218) 8:30 a.m.: IndyCar warmup, FS1 Noon: IndyCar race, Fox TV: Coverage begins at noon ET, Sunday, July 20, 2025, on Fox. Green flag is scheduled for 12:22 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. 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: Partly cloudy and highs in the upper 70s. Push-to-pass: 200 seconds total in increments of up to 20 seconds. Tire allotment: Five sets primary and five sets alternate to be used during the event weekend. Rookie drivers may use one additional set of primary tires. Teams must use one set of primary and one set of new (sticker) alternate tires for at least two laps in the race. 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 & (Winner: Alex Palou) May 25, Indianapolis 500 * (Winner: Alex Palou) June 1, Detroit % (Winner: Kyle Kirkwood) June 15, St. Louis * (Winner: Kyle Kirkwood) June 22, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin & (Winner: Alex Palou) July 6, Lexington, Ohio & (Winner: Scott Dixon) July 12, Newton, Iowa * (Winner: Pato O'Ward) July 13, Newton, Iowa * (Winner: Alex Palou) July 20, Toronto %, noon 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)
CTV News
5 days ago
- Automotive
- CTV News
Kyle Kirkwood has fastest practice lap at Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto
Winner Colton Herta (26) of the United States drives during the 2024 Ontario Honda Dealers Indy in Toronto on Sunday, July 21, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Arlyn McAdorey TORONTO — Kyle Kirkwood of the United States had the fastest lap in the first practice round of the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto. He went around the course at Exhibition Place in downtown Toronto in one minute 1.205 seconds. Scott McLaughlin of New Zealand was second in 1:01.341 and Spain's Alex Palou, the IndyCar Series points leader, was third in 1:01.599. Reigning champion Colton Herta of the U.S. was 10th in 1:02.022. Toronto's Devlin DeFrancesco, the only Canadian entered in the IndyCar Series race, was 25th in 1:02.9283. IndyCar announced earlier in the day that Scott Dixon received a six-position starting grid penalty for an unapproved engine change following last week's race at Iowa Speedway. Dixon, from New Zealand, is a four-time champion in Toronto, second only to all-time great Michael Andretti's seven wins. Headlined by an IndyCar Series race on Sunday, there's a total of nine races from several series and a variety of automobile classes over the weekend. All of the races will take place around an 11-turn, 2.874-kilometre street course that runs through Exhibition Place, along Lake Shore Boulevard, and then loops back through the fairgrounds in downtown Toronto. This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 18, 2025. John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press
