McLaughlin wrecks during Indy 500 warmup lap

INDIANAPOLIS -- Scott McLaughlin crashed during the warmup laps for the Indianapolis 500 and instantly burst into tears.

The Team Penske operator slammed into the partition arsenic helium was swerving to lukewarm his tires earlier Sunday's greenish flag.

The New Zealander, who was slated to commencement 10th, buried his caput successful his hands portion crouched connected the infield grass. McLaughlin was Penske's highest-starting operator aft two-time defending contention victor Josef Newgarden and Will Power were penalized and dropped to the backmost of the tract for failing inspection.

It was reminiscent of the 1992 Indianapolis 500, erstwhile rod sitter Roberto Guerrero spun retired and crashed portion besides trying to lukewarm up his tires during the parade laps.

"I truly person nary thought what happened," McLaughlin said. "Just truly upset for my team. ... I'm truly atrocious to my sponsors, my fans, my family. I don't cognize what happened. I can't judge we're retired of the race. I had truthful overmuch anticipation today. It's the worst infinitesimal of my life.

"I cognize it's astir apt dramatic, but it's conscionable similar -- I enactment truthful overmuch into the race. Everyone does. And I didn't adjacent get to spot the greenish flag."

As McLaughlin was being tended to, fume and flames began shooting retired from nether Scott Dixon's car. It was not wide what the contented was for the Chip Ganassi Racing driver, who is the 2008 contention winner.

When the contention went green, Marco Andretti made interaction with Jack Harvey, which caused him to spin, earlier Marcus Armstrong deed Andretti connected the archetypal lap. His begetter and grandfather, Michael Andretti and Mario Andretti, shook their heads successful disbelief.

It made for back-to-back DNF's for Andretti successful the race.

Alex Palou yet won Sunday's Indianapolis 500 to go the archetypal operator from Spain to triumph the race.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.