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National Post
3 days ago
- Automotive
- National Post
Reigning champion Colton Herta takes pole at Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto
Defending champion Colton Herta has earned pole position at the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto. Article content He did the 11-turn, 2.874-kilometre course around Exhibition Place in downtown Toronto in 59.8320 seconds. Article content IndyCar Series points leader Alex Palou was second, 0.2758 seconds behind Herta. Article content Marcus Armstrong and Will Power were third and fourth respectively. Article content Scott Dixon, a four-time champion in Toronto, was 11th in qualifying but IndyCar announced Friday that he'd earned a six-position starting grid penalty for an unapproved engine change following last week's race at Iowa Speedway. Article content Article content
Indianapolis Star
5 days ago
- Automotive
- Indianapolis Star
What is the start time for the IndyCar race at Ontario Honda Dealers Indy in Toronto?
The IndyCar Series heads back to the streets, this time in downtown Toronto for the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy, a 90-lap race on a 1.786-mile layout. The series is in the middle of brutally busy July, with five races over four weekends. Pato O'Ward and series points leader Alex Palou won on the Iowa Speedway short oval last weekend. Scott Dixon has four wins on this layout, most recently in 2022. Will Power has three and Josef Newgarden two. 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. Nathan Brown is your best IndyCar follow, and keep up with coverage throughout the season with IndyStar's motorsports newsletter. 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. Pole-sitter Colton Herta edged front-row starter Kyle Kirkwood at the finish line, with Scott Dixon completing the podium. 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) 3 p.m.: IndyCar practice, FS2 10:30 a.m.: IndyCar practice, FS1 2:30 p.m.: IndyCar qualifying, FS1 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) Friday: Sunny with highs in the mid 70s. Saturday: Partly cloudy and highs in the upper 70s. Sunday: Partly cloudy and a high around 80. 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)
RNZ News
13-07-2025
- Automotive
- RNZ News
Scott Dixon second as Alex Palou chalks up another Indycar win
Alex Palou has won his sevnth Indycar event for the season. File pic. Photo: AFP Evergreen New Zealand racing driver Scott Dixon has finished second to Alex Palou, who has claimed his seventh Indycars title of the season with a win in Iowa. Kiwi Marcus Armstrong had his first podium of the season, with third place in the IndyCar Farm to Finish 275, his sixth top-10 finish in a row. But Scott McLaughlin's race was over before it really started, eliminated in a crash on the first lap. It was a 1-2 finish for Chip Ganassi Racing, but Palou had to withstand a strong challenge on the final lap from Dixon, who had his first victory for the season a week earlier in Mid-Ohio. Palou won by 0.528sec on the tight 1.43km Iowa Speedway course, benefitting by taking a pit stop while a caution flag was out. He had been in third place, but his break was a lucky one as it disadvantaged leader American Josef Newgarden who had emerged from the pit lane with a yellow flag out, a situation that happened twice to him during the race. With 11 laps to go, Palou had the lead and Dixon edged past Armstrong in second. And it remained that way until the finish line. "I cannot really believe it, honestly, and winning here is super special. I struggled on short ovals for so long. Super happy. Another win. Seven wins in one year is insane," said Palou on the Sky Sport broadcast. Dixon was pleased with his effort after finishing ninth in the first race on the track on Sunday. He said he was proud at how his team "had thrown the kitchen sink'' in getting the car ready after issues on Sunday. "We weren't sure how it was going to go,'' Dixon said after the race. "We needed a longer race today.'' Armstrong was thrilled with his first podium finish of the season for Meyer-Shank Racing. "We made it happen today," he said. "We are getting better every single race, I'm gelling with my crew better every race." McLaughlin had been hoping to follow up his fourth placing on Sunday, but it all turned bad when he was unable to avoid Devlin DeFrancesco's car which spun out suddenly in front of him. McLaughlin's car cannoned into the wall and he was unable to continue. "It sucks. I was really excited for today,'' McLaughlin said. It was a bad day for Team Penske with Will Power having to retire from the race after his car lost power. Palou extended his lead in the driver standings. He now has 515 points, ahead of Pato O'Ward, who won Sunday's race, on 386 with Dixon third on 342. Armstrong, who finished ninth on Sunday, is seventh with 267 points, while McLaughlin is 12th with 234.
NZ Herald
13-07-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
IndyCar Farm to Finish 275: Alex Palou holds off Scott Dixon to win seventh of season
Spain's Alex Palou held off Scott Dixon over the final laps to capture today's IndyCar Farm to Finish 275, stretching his season points lead with his seventh win of the year. The pole-sitter and Indianapolis 500 champion collected his 18th career IndyCar triumph in 93 starts after 275 laps around
France 24
13-07-2025
- Sport
- France 24
Palou wins seventh of season at IndyCar Farm to Finish 275
The pole-sitter and Indianapolis 500 champion collected his 18th career IndyCar triumph in 93 starts after 275 laps around the 0.894-mile (1.43km) Iowa Speedway oval. "It has been an unbelievable day, unbelievable weekend but more than anything an incredible year for us," Palou said. "I cannot really believe it, honestly, and winning here is super special. I struggled on short ovals for so long. Super happy. Another win. Seven wins in one year. It's insane." It was only his second career oval triumph after winning at Indy in May. The event completed a double-header weekend in Newton, Iowa, with race one going to Mexico's Pato O'Ward on Saturday. New Zealand's Dixon finished second on Sunday followed by compatriot Marcus Armstrong, who matched his best career IndyCar finish, then American David Malukas and O'Ward. It was Dixon's 14th top-five finish at Iowa without a victory. "We weren't too sure how it was going to go," Dixon said. "Everybody did a great job to basically throw the kitchen sink at it." Palou, with 515 season points, boosted his lead over O'Ward from 105 to 129 points with Dixon 173 adrift in third after 12 races as the Spaniard tries to capture a fourth crown in five campaigns. American Josef Newgarden, Saturday's runner-up and is a six-time race winner at Iowa, finished 10th after twice pitting with the lead only to have a caution flag moments later send him to the back of the lead lap. Palou grabbed the lead at the start but Newgarden overtook him and seized first place on lap 66. Newgarden went into the pits on lap 130 for fuel but moments later Sweden's Marcus Ericsson crashed in turn four, allowing rivals to make pit stops under caution as Newgarden cycled back. Palou returned to the track in the lead with Malukas second and O'Ward third at the restart with Newgarden 11th. Fast-charging Newgarden clawed his way back, passing Malukas with 40 laps remaining and overtaking Palou five laps later to reclaim the lead. Newgarden then pitted to refuel just as American Colton Herta crashed to bring out a caution flag with Palou pitting and staying in the lead and Newgarden fading to ninth. The next IndyCar race will be next Sunday at Toronto.
