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IndyCar driver Pato O'Ward rips new Detroit Grand Prix: 'I hate this place. It sucks.'
IndyCar driver Pato O'Ward is having a strong season, currently second in the overall standings to Álex Palou after a seventh-place finish in the 2025 Detroit Grand Prix on Sunday, June 1. But despite gaining ground on Palou, O'Ward had a negative appraisal of his Detroit Grand Prix experience. Advertisement O'Ward was asked about his performance Sunday, and he took a blowtorch to the entire race in Detroit. "It's been a very frustrating weekend," he said. "You guys know I don't sugarcoat things. I hate this place. It sucks. It's a horrible track." Detroit's is the shortest among all street courses on the IndyCar calendar, and several drivers have complained about bumpy and narrow conditions since the race returned downtown from Belle Isle in 2023. But no racer has been as candid as O'Ward so far this year. "I really miss Belle Isle," he said. "You get to really appreciate what an IndyCar can do at Belle Isle, and here you're just Mickey Mousing around the whole time." Pato O'Ward sings the shirt of a young fan during the NTT IndyCar Series Driver's Autograph Session at the 2024 Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear Free Prix Day inside the GM Renaissance Center in Detroit on Friday, May 31, 2024. The 2023 and 2024 editions of the Detroit Grand Prix, the first two to return downtown since 1988, had crashes on the opening lap that highlighted the chaos of the track. The 2025 Grand Prix avoided that fate on the first turn but did have a big crash at turn 3 on lap 84 that took Louis Foster and Felix Rosenqvist out of the race. Advertisement Kyle Kirkwood won Sunday's race, and IndyCar announced the race will return to downtown Detroit though 2028, with an option for three more years through 2031. READ MORE: How the Detroit Grand Prix got from Belle Isle to downtown You can reach Christian at cromo@ Submit a letter to the editor at and we may publish it online or in print. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Pato O'Ward on Detroit Grand Prix downtown: 'I hate this place'
USA Today
3 days ago
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Pato O'Ward calls for IndyCar to ditch the hybrid due to zero benefit
Pato O'Ward calls for IndyCar to ditch the hybrid due to zero benefit In 2024, the NTT IndyCar Series introduced a new hybrid system that changed the on-track product. It has been very controversial since its debut with the drivers and fans not being shy about their thoughts. The racing on track has suffered due to the hybrid system and one of IndyCar's most popular drivers has had enough. Following the first Indianapolis 500 with the hybrid system, McLaren driver Pato O'Ward spoke to Marshall Pruett about the recent issues. O'Ward didn't hold back and is calling for IndyCar to make changes. 'The reason why we keep seeing the restarts being so...I don't even think chaotic reaches the right wording for what we've seen. But, just so desperate is because of the fact that that is your only chance to get multiple positions,' O'Ward said to RACER. "Doesn't matter how good your car is. You know when you make positions now, it's in the restarts by just placing your car somewhere where someone else didn't, and just hoping to God that nothing goes wrong. And by strategy, just having maybe like an overcut. That's how you saw [Ryan Hunter-Reay], [Marcus Ericsson], make their way up while [Conor Daly] was slowing the whole field down, fuel saving." 'I feel like, in all honesty, the hybrid has brought zero benefit to the series in every way, shape and form. I know they're trying to get a third manufacturer. But in my most humble and honest opinion, I believe IndyCar should trust their own history." IndyCar's on-track product has suffered and the drivers are well aware that it's not the same as the past. The hybrid system has only been in place for one year, but it may not have a long tenure in the sport. IndyCar drivers are fed up, and the sport might be forced into making changes sooner rather than later. More: Jimmie Johnson wants Kyle Larson to keep attempting 'The Double'
Fox Sports
25-05-2025
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- Fox Sports
Indianapolis 500 start time delayed due to light rain
The Indianapolis 500 on Sunday has been delayed due to inclement weather moving into the area of Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. Drivers are in their cars, but are awaiting the go-ahead to start the race. Stay tuned for updates. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily ! BEST OF FOX SPORTS' INDY 500 COVERAGE: Ranking Indy 500 drivers from 33 to 1: Can anyone unseat Josef Newgarden? Got milk? 33 potential Indy 500 winners pick preferred dairy option Pato O'Ward pens letter to Indy 500: 'Had my heart broken here … but it also fuels me' No oval experience, no problem: Rookie Robert Shwartzman captures Indy 500 pole Rash of Crash: Inside a wild weekend of wrecks during Indy 500 prep From 'magical' to 'legendary': Drivers describe the Indy 500 in one word 2025 Indy 500 liveries: See the designs of all 34 cars on the track at The Brickyard Counting down the 25 most memorable moments in Indy 500 history FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience NTT INDYCAR SERIES recommended Get more from NTT INDYCAR SERIES Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more
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25-05-2025
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33 things to know about Indy 500: Drivers to watch, loads of history, where Penske finishes
33 things to know about Indy 500: Drivers to watch, loads of history, where Penske finishes INDIANAPOLIS — The 109th running of the Indianapolis 500 features perhaps the fastest trio of drivers to start on the back row, along with a rookie polesitter on a rookie team, Kyle Larson's latest attempt at the double and a shot at what would be career-defining wins for IndyCar's young crop of stars that include Pato O'Ward, Alex Palou, David Malukas and Christian Lundgaard. Sunday's edition of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing is chock-full of storylines up and down the grid, with history likely, or even scheduled, to be broken and tension, potential drama aplenty. Here are 33 things to know and watch out for as you get ready to watch the 2025 Indianapolis 500: Rookie Robert Shwartzman an improbable Indy 500 polesitter The way in which rookie Robert Shwartzman shot up from the bottom of the timing charts to the very top in less than a week remains — admittedly during a chaotic lead-up to the Indy 500 — maybe the most under-the-radar headline and story arc we've seen this month. Keeping in mind that solely looking at practice results doesn't tell nearly the full story, here's where Shwartzman finished the sessions of the open test and full-field practices leading into qualifying (in chronological order): 30th, 28th, 25th, 31st, 33rd, 28th, 32nd and 13th. And then Qualifying Day 1, he finished sixth fastest, laid down the third best lap in the Fast 12 and threw down a lap neither O'Ward nor Felix Rosenqvist could top. Just a rapid ascent over the course of just over 48 hours, and he's now just the third rookie to win pole for the 500 on-track. Takuma Sato or Pato O'Ward could take lead before Lap 1 ends Now, what does that mean for the race? I wouldn't at all be surprised to see Takuma Sato (starting second) or O'Ward (third) jump out to the lead before the end of Lap 1. Frankly, as long as drivers stay out of areas where they could get caught up in others' messes, who's leading in the race's early laps matters very little, unless you're logging a bunch of laps at the front and putting your fuel consumption at risk. All that's to say, we haven't seen Shwartzman finish any better than 25th in a session run with race day boost levels (he was 26th Monday). I still don't think we really know what "Robert Shwartzman the race day performer" is going to bring, and I'd be thoroughly floored if he somehow wins, but honestly, a top 10 even would be a monumental performance for a team that only has four top-20 finishes in 10 starts so far in 2025. A Takuma Sato Indy 500 trend to note I'm not saying Sato is going to win Sunday, but I'm definitely noting this: of his 15 previous Indy 500 starts, he's started in the top four twice, in 2017 and 2020. Sato, with two separate teams that year and in two separate eras of the car (with and without the aero screen), won both times. The 48-year-old makes his best start on the middle of the front row. Why Pato O'Ward may win first Indy 500 According to Chad Smith, 14 times in the 500's history has the race-winner finished second the previous year — most recently with Dan Wheldon, who finished second each of the two previous years before his win in 2011. Though he's had a relatively quiet Month of May, O'Ward's loads of experience while running up nearly the front the last three years, if nothing else, gives him a level of experience few starting in the upper third of the field have. McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown may not witness Indy 500 from IMS If O'Ward or one of this three Arrow McLaren teammates finds a way to carve their way to victory lane on Sunday afternoon, there's a strong likelihood that McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown will be absent. As of the time of writing, Brown plans to stay with McLaren's Formula 1 team at its Monaco Grand Prix race weekend as long as at least one of its drivers is starting within the top 3, at a track where it's incredibly tough to pass among the frontrunners, in a series where McLaren has a more than a 100-point lead in the constructers championship and has its drivers sitting 1-2 in the drivers championship with five wins in seven races. McLaren hasn't won the crown jewel of the F1 calendar since 2008. This year stands to likely be the last year for the foreseeable future where the 500 and Monaco are run on the same day. Scott Dixon to make IndyCar history starting Indy 500 As he crosses the start-finish line on Sunday and takes the green flag, Scott Dixon will become IndyCar's all-time starts leader, breaking his tie with Mario Andretti for the all-time mark and making the 408th of his career. The active full-time driver with the second-most IndyCar starts is Will Power, who will make his 308th start Sunday, followed by Graham Rahal (298) and Josef Newgarden (221). A Scott Dixon Indy 500 win would make history Among the many marks he's made in the Indy 500 history books, a Dixon win Sunday from the inside of the second row would make for the longest gap between wins in a multi-time Indy 500 winner's career (17 years, 2008 to 2025). Juan Montoya currently holds the record of 15 years (2000-15), though he made no starts after his 2000 win until 2014. Scott Dixon's all-time laps led lead could grow Given his fourth-place starting spot this year, there's reason to think Dixon may find a way to grab some additional laps led to continue to pad his all-time mark of 677 and potentially become the first driver to reach 700. For comparison, Helio Castroneves has the second-most among active drivers and has just 326 (18th all-time). The most among full-time drivers is Power (145 laps, 43rd). Will Alex Palou finally break Indy 500 drought? Since his runner-up finish in the 500 in his first year with Chip Ganassi Racing, Palou has proved to be a constant storyline at or near the front, despite having failed to register another top-3 finish over his last three starts. He's overcome untimely yellow flags that forced him to take a splash of fuel while the pits were closed, sending him to the back of the field before he recovered to ninth (2022), was run into in pit lane and dropped beyond 25th halfway through the race before finishing fourth (2023) and clawed his way up from a 14th-place staring spot to finish fifth a year ago. Is this the year where Palou truly factors into the late-race action as he starts sixth? Alex Palou could join elite company with Indy 500 victory Unless he crumbles on the way to the finish, Palou is eyeing the chance of becoming the first driver since Dario Franchitti in 2010 to win both the Indianapolis 500 and the IndyCar title in the same season. Doing so in 2025 would make him one of five drivers in American open-wheel racing history with at least one 500 victory and four championships. Could Indy 500 bring shakeup to IndyCar championship race? A win Sunday would also ensure Palou enters the second third of the season with a more than 100-point lead. As it stands entering Sunday's 500, including points earned last weekend for qualifying sixth, Palou leads O'Ward by 97 points, Lundgaard by 100 and Kyle Kirkwood by 104. Depending on how chaotic Sunday's race is, with top drivers strewn throughout the starting grid, spots second to 10th in the championship could see a sizable shakeup, with those spots in the championship separated by just 58 points. Is Christian Lundgaard poised for best Indy 500 yet? In his three previous years racing for a Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team that consistently has struggled in qualifying of late, Lundgaard has historically been great at carving up the back of the pack and working his way to a respectable finish by the checkered flag, making up 39 total spots from his starting position in his three 500 starts. This year, Lundgaard starts (sixth) closer to the front of the grid than he's finished, his career-best 500 (13th) came in 2024. What will Marcus Ericsson do in this Indy 500? It's wild to think it's been this long, but Marcus Ericsson essentially hasn't run a 500 since his controversial runner-up run in 2023 that followed his 2022 victory. The Andretti Global driver was taken out in Turn 1 of Lap 1 a year ago, but qualified far and away better than any of his teammates (ninth) and is one of just three former 500 winners starting in the top 10 this year among a class of eight former winners — 10 (1992) is the all-time record for former 500 winners in a field. Scott McLaughlin gives Penske its best chance at Indy 500 win Scott McLaughlin firmly believed he had the field's fastest car before his Sunday afternoon crash that will see him step into a backup car for Sunday's race. The 2024 polesitter said Thursday he has every reason to believe his team has still prepared him a rocket ship, and if Team Penske has any serious hope in a third straight 500 victory, he's likely to be their winning ticket as the only one of Roger Penske's cars starting inside the top 30. Team Penske has new cars lined up for Indy 500 Before he was first suspended from Sunday's race and then later fired by Roger Penske, Tim Cindric pointed out to reporters that all three of Team Penske's cars Sunday will be entering their first races. Historically, Team Penske prepares Indy 500-specific cars for their drivers, and IMS is the only track they race on, so as to attempt to hone them in for the specific rigors of the 500. Cindric said McLaughlin's car for the race is a new chassis after he totaled his pole-winning car from a year ago. Power's is also new after his sizable crash in last year's race, and Newgarden's 2024 chassis was retired after a single start, as Team Penske immediately puts its 500-winners into either its own museum or that of IMS. Indy 500 starting grid has parity This year's first four rows on the grid features 10 of the race's 12 teams, with only Arrow McLaren and Chip Ganassi Racing landing more than one driver in the mix and only Dale Coyne Racing and Dreyer and Reinbold Racing not represented, entering a race that at the moment lacks a clear favorite, or even a clear and obvious short-list of 2 to 3 drivers, unlike a year ago. Conor Daly's Indy 500 helmet honors fellow Hoosier Wilbur Shaw With the grid penalties handed out to Power and Newgarden this week, Conor Daly will start as close to the front of the Indy 500 grid as the Hoosier ever has, tying an 11th place start in 2019. Since that race, Daly has managed to log four top-10 finishes, including a career-best sixth in 2022, despite starting no better than 16th in his last five starts. This year, he's honoring Wilbur Shaw, who stands as the last 500 winner born and raised in Indiana, with a tribute helmet featuring the same colors as Shaw's car he won the 1940 Indy 500 in, the last of Shaw's three victories. Alexander Rossi a dark horse Indy 500 winner? For someone who hasn't won the 500 since his rookie year in 2016, you'd be hard-pressed to find a driver who's performed better and found himself near the front more often in the last nine years who hasn't won in the previous eight races than Alexander Rossi, whose last three finishes are fifth, fifth and fourth. With a decent starting spot (12th) and a solid race car, I'd expect to see Rossi up at the front at some point. And who knows, remember who won the last 500 with soldout grandstands? Can Ed Carpenter shake his poor Indy 500 finishes? The 500 hasn't been kind of late to Ed Carpenter, who makes his third consecutive start outside the top 12 (14th) and who hasn't finished inside the top 16 in his three previous starts. Now as a 500-only driver for the first time in his career, Sunday's race stands to be Carpenter's last race for a calendar year, when he'd be 45 years old and making his 23rd Indy 500 start. Will we see the youngest or oldest Indy 500 winner take victory lane? As has been the case the last several years, this year's 500 could still see the oldest, or youngest, winner in its history. The records currently are owned by Troy Ruttman (youngest; 22 years, 80 days old for his 1952 win) and Al Unser Sr. (oldest; 47 years, 360 days old for his 1987 win). Indy 500 rookies Nolan Siegel (20 years, 197 days old on race day) and Louis Foster (21 years, 302 days) would both be record-young winners, as would second-year driver Kyffin Simpson (20 years, 228 days). Castroneves (50 years, 15 days) and Sato (48 years, 117 days) will be able to set the all-time oldest 500 winner mark for the remainder of their careers. Will a first-time Indy 500 winner drought be snapped? Our most recent Indy 500 first-time winner (Newgarden in 2023) fell one race short of tying Sam Hanks' record as the longest start to a race-winner's career before an initial victory. Several drivers in the field would blow the doors off Hanks' mark of 13 starts when he won in 1957, including Rahal (18th start, starting 28th), Marco Andretti (20th start, starting 29th) and Carpenter (22nd start, starting 14th). Can Kyle Larson complete the double in full? Just getting a chance to start both the Indy 500 and Coke 600 would be an improvement on Larson's initial attempt at the double in 2024, where Mother Nature hampered his chances and forced he and his team to choose. But should he manage to make it to Charlotte on time Sunday, his Hendrick 1,100 will mark the 10th time the two races have been run in the same day. Six of those nine previous attempts have led to top 10s in the 500, with sixth-place achieved by Robby Gordon, Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch. As one might imagine, the closing stint of the feat, 600 miles at Charlotte Motor Speedway, has been tougher to excel at. Only twice, Stewart's pair of attempts in 1999 and 2001, has a double driver finished all 400 laps of the Coke 600. And only one of those (2001) saw Stewart complete all 200 laps at the 500, too. That year, Stewart finished sixth at IMS and third in Charlotte. Helio Castroneves becomes 15th driver to start Indy 500 at age 50 or older A member of the media jokingly asked Castroneves if he'd yet obtained his AARP card yet, to which the newly minted 50-year-old said 'no.' But this year, the four-time winner becomes the first 50-year-old the Indy 500 field has seen since Lyn St. James in 2000. Castroneves' start Sunday will be the race's 38th in its history by drivers age 50 or older, and he's the 15th different driver to do so. Of those starts, only nine have ended up in the top 10, and just three of them (Mario Andretti, fifth in 1993; A.J. Foyt, fifth in 1989; and Al Unser Sr., third in 1992) have ended in top-5 finishes. Helio Castroneves closing in on Indy 500 mileage leader By taking the checkered flag on the lead lap last year, Castroneves moved within 1,000 miles of Foyt's all-time miles completed record in the Indy 500, sitting at 11,495 and second all-time, compared to the record of 12,272.5 miles. With a full race this year and next, Castroneves would become the 500's all-time mileage leader. Among active drivers, Dixon sits second (10,172.5 miles), followed by Carpenter (9,477.5 miles), Andretti (8,782.5 miles) and Power (7,998 miles). From back of the pack to Indy 500 winner? Experience may get it done Just once since 1988 has a driver started 19th or worse and won the 500, meaning several star drivers in this year's field would have to pull off some serious magic to turn that trend around. Along with 2021 NASCAR Cup series champ and double' participant Kyle Larson (19th), the back chunk of the field includes three-time IndyCar race-winner Kirkwood (23rd), 2014 Indy 500 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay (25th), 2024 IndyCar championship runner-up Colton Herta (27th), two-time defending Indy 500 winner Newgarden (32nd) and 2018 Indy 500 winner Power (33rd). Can a rookie win the Indy 500 this year? Only 10 times has the Indy 500 been won by a rookie, including the first running in 1911, as well as the third (1913) and fourth (1914), and only four times has it happened since 1928 — by the legendary Graham Hill (1966), by young rookies in the midst of the contentious split (Montoya, 2000; Castroneves, 2001) and by one of the most masterful fuel saves we've seen in recent memory (Rossi, 2016). This year's polesitter Shwartzman far and away has the best odds of adding to that historic list with Foster (22nd) and Siegel (26th) a ways back. How does Rinus Veekay fare with worst Indy 500 starting spot? After a career at the 500 that saw him qualify no worse than fourth in his first four starts, Rinus VeeKay will roll off Sunday on the inside of the 11th and final row on the grid — a position only marginally improved with Newgarden and Power being sent to the back. Watching him to see how he fairs carving through the back of the field instead of trading off the lead at the front should be a performance to keep a close eye on. Will Josef Newgarden or Will Power drive to historic Indy 500 win? History would say the penalties levied by IndyCar on Monday for Team Penske's illegally modified attenuators has moved former 500 winners Newgarden (2023-24) and Power (2018) out of contention for the win, with no driver having won the race in its 108-year history from any further back than 28th (1911, Ray Haroun; 1936, Louis Meyer). After being pulled out of line ahead of the start of the Fast 12, the pair had been originally slated to start 11th and 12th. Who has made up the most positions in the Indy 500? That being said, that size chunk of positions has been made up in the race before. Zeke Meyer (1932) holds the record for the greatest improvement from one's starting position at 32 spots, advancing from 38th to sixth in one of the handful of years when the 500 started with more than 33 cars. Last year, four drivers made up 15 or more starting spots, with Daly eating up the most in his leap from 29th to 10th. Josef Newgarden's historic Indy 500 run may not end like those before him Famously, the Indy 500 has never had a driver win three consecutive races, with Newgarden eyeing to become the first. Of the five drivers before him who've attempted to win three straight, each of the last two (Unser Sr. and Castroneves) have each finished runner-up in their attempt at history. Recent Indy 500 winners have started in first three rows If recent history matters much, our winner seems reasonably likely to come from the first three rows, with seven of the last eight winners starting eighth or better on the grid — the only outlier being Newgarden in 2023 (17th). New pairings highlight the Indy 500 grid Fourteen of the 33 drivers in this year's field enter either with a different team than they ran for a year ago, as a rookie who are making their first 500 start or a driver who took a gap year and did not race the 500 in 2024. Add in the Team Penske trio who will all have different strategists than they typically would (and than they did a year ago during separate Team Penske suspensions), and there's a bunch of new pairings up and down the grid in 2025. Tim Cindric left a legacy if IndyCar career is over after being fired by Team Penske If this is the last time we see ex-Team Penske IndyCar president Tim Cindric on an IndyCar grid, should he ramp up his wishes to scale back his workload after being fired by Roger Penske this week, then the Pike High School grad will have completed perhaps one of the most historic runs as a team leader the sport has and could ever see. The IndyCar teams under his more than a quarter-century of leadership won 10 Indianapolis 500s, starting with three straight (2001-03) and ending on back-to-backs (2023-24), though Cindric was suspended from the team for last year's race in the fallout of Team Penske's push-to-pass scandal.
USA Today
25-05-2025
- Automotive
- USA Today
Indy 500 payout live: How much prize money does winner get?
Indy 500 payout live: How much prize money does winner get? The eternal glory of winning an Indianapolis 500 and drinking the milk in victory lane would be enough reward for most drivers, but there will be a massive amount of money on the line for the 33 drivers that take the green flag on Sunday for the 2025 Indy 500. The total purse for Sunday's race is expected to be around $20 million dollars, following the steady annual increase we've seen in recent years. In 2024, the race purse exceeded $18.4 million. Who will take home the first-place check? We'll be updating you on the live leaderboard throughout the race. Indy 500 payout, prize money: How much money does the winner get? Indy 500 purse information won't be released until after the race, but based on recent trends, it's expected that the total purse for the 2025 Indy 500 could be around the $20 million dollar mark, with the winner potentially taking home upwards of $4.5 million dollars. Last year, race winner Josef Newgarden earned $4.288 million, with runner-up Pato O'Ward earning just over $1 million and third-place Scott McLaughlin taking $835k. 2025 Indy 500 starting order, leaderboard Rookie Robert Shwartzman won pole position in qualifying, and will lead a front row that includes two-time winner Takuma Sato and two-time runner-up Pato O'Ward. Robert Shwartzman, Prema Racing #83 Takuma Sato, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing #75 Pato O'Ward, Arrow McLaren #5 Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing #9 Felix Rosenqvist, Meyer Shank Racing #60 Alex Palou, Chip Ganassi Racing #10 David Malukas, A.J. Foyt Enterprises #4 Christian Lundgaard, Arrow McLaren #7 Marcus Ericsson, Andretti Global #28 Scott McLaughlin, Team Penske #3 Conor Daly, Juncos Hollinger Racing #76 Alexander Rossi, Ed Carpenter Racing #20 Kyffin Simpson, Chip Ganassi Racing #8 Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter Racing #33 Santino Ferruci, A.J. Foyt Enterprises #14 Devlin DeFrancesco, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing #30 Sting Ray Robb, Juncos Hollinger Racing #77 Christian Rasmussen, Ed Carpenter Racing #21 Kyle Larson, Arrow McLaren #17 Louis Foster, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing #45 Callum Ilott, Prema Racing #90 Helio Castroneves, Meyer Shank Racing #06 Kyle Kirkwood, Andretti Global #27 Nolan Siegel, Arrow McLaren #6 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing / Cusick Motorsports #23 Jack Harvey, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing / Cusick Motorsports #24 Colton Herta, Andretti Global #26 Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing #15 Marco Andretti, Andretti Global #98 Marcus Armstrong, Meyer Shank Racing #66 Rinus VeeKay, Dale Coyne Racing #18 Josef Newgarden, Team Penske #2 Will Power, Team Penske #12 2024 Indy 500 full payout Until the 2025 purse is released, all we can do is look back at previous purses to see what drivers are likely to make. Every driver will win prize money, but the exact amount depends on NTT IndyCar Series awards, Indianapolis Motor Speedway awards, various other prizes, and a team's standing in the "Leader's Circle" bonus system. This means that a driver who finishes 22nd, for example, could earn more prize money than a driver who finishes 16th, as was the case last year. Josef Newgarden — $4,288,000 Pato O'Ward — $1,050,500 Scott Dixon — $835,000 Alexander Rossi — $688,000 Alex Palou — $614,000 Scott McLaughlin — $781,500 Kyle Kirkwood — $568,000 Santino Ferrucci — $568,500 Rinus VeeKay — $563,500 Conor Daly — $159,000 Callum Ilott — $538,500 Christian Rasmussen — $128,000 Christian Lundgaard — $537,000 Takuma Sato — $119,500 Graham Rahal — $537,000 Sting Ray Robb — $228,300 Ed Carpenter — $510,500 Kyle Larson — $178,000 Romain Grosjean — $517,500 Hélio Castroneves — $102,000 Kyffin Simpson — $158,300 Agustín Canapino — $511,000 Colton Herta — $513,000 Will Power — $543,000 Marco Andretti — $102,000 Ryan Hunter-Reay — $102,000 Felix Rosenqvist — $514,000 Linus Lundqvist — $508,500 Katherine Legge — $158,800 Marcus Armstrong — $156,300 Tom Blomqvist — $156,300 Pietro Fittipaldi — $507,500 Marcus Ericsson — $507,500 What channel is the Indy 500 on? The 2025 Indy 500 will be broadcast on FOX. How to stream the Indy 500 You can stream the Indy 500 on Fubo. Watch the Indy 500 on Fubo
