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Alex Palou decided to marque his determination astir Marcus Ericsson with 14 laps to spell and held disconnected the operator to triumph the Indianapolis 500 connected Sunday afternoon.
It was Palou’s archetypal Indy 500, and helium is the archetypal Spaniard to triumph the race.
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May 25, 2025; Indianapolis, Indiana: Chip Ganassi Racing operator Alex Palou (10) wears a wreath arsenic helium celebrates successful the winner's ellipse aft winning the 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Marc Lebryk-Imagn Images)
Palou started the contention successful sixth presumption connected the 2nd enactment connected the extracurricular of Scott Dixon and adjacent Felix Rosenqvist. He needed to enactment hard to get to the beforehand arsenic persistent droplets of rainfall and respective caution flags came out, which could person halted his momentum astatine immoderate time.
As the contention came down to the end, helium got his accidental to determination astir Ericsson. He had immoderate thigh postulation successful beforehand of him but they didn’t look to hinder Palou’s quality to triumph astatine all. For Palou, it was jubilation down the frontstretch with the anticipation of kissing the bricks and immoderate crystal acold beverage to chill him disconnected aft the grueling event.
Palou whitethorn person had immoderate luck connected his side, arsenic well.
May 25, 2025; Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Chip Ganassi Racing operator Alex Palou (10) of Spain celebrates with his household successful the winner's ellipse aft winning the 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Marc Lebryk-Imagn Images)
May 25, 2025; Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Chip Ganassi Racing operator Alex Palou (10) of Spain celebrates winning the 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Marc Lebryk-Imagn Images)
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He was down Alexander Rossi erstwhile his conveyance began to leak fluid crossed the track. Rossi went into the pits hoping that it would beryllium an contented that could beryllium fixed sooner. However, his conveyance caught occurrence and his time was finished.
A fewer drivers took spills passim the day. It started with Scott McLaughlin, who wrecked his conveyance during the gait laps. Marco Andretti followed up connected the archetypal greenish emblem thigh and crashed arsenic well.
Rinus VeeKay, Robert Shwartzman, Kyffin Simpson, Kyle Larson, Sting Ray Robb, Josef Newgarden and Ryan Hunter-Reay each had issues and ended their days early. Larson was attempting "The Double" – completing the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600.
Ericsson, David Malukas, Pato O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist rounded retired the apical five.
Keith Kirkwood, Santino Ferrucci, Christian Rasmussen, Christian Lundgaard and Conor Daly rounded retired the apical 10.
May 25, 2025; Indianapolis, Indiana: Chip Ganassi Racing operator Alex Palou (10) of Spain races during the 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Marc Lebryk-Imagn Images)
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Palou has 5 wins successful the archetypal six races of the IndyCar season. The lone blemish was a second-place decorativeness astatine the Grand Prix of Long Beach.
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