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Scott McLaughlin’s Indianapolis 500 was finished earlier the contention went green.
McLaughlin and the remainder of the tract were doing gait laps to get acceptable for the greenish flag. McLaughlin was warming up his tires connected the beforehand straightaway erstwhile his conveyance slipped, and helium deed the wall.
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May 25, 2025; Indianapolis, Indiana: IndyCar Series operator Scott McLaughlin reacts aft crashing connected the gait thigh of the 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)
The No. 3 came to a rest, and McLaughlin was successful disbelief.
The FOX Sports broadcast showed McLaughlin retired of his conveyance with his caput successful his hands. His contention squad told broadcaster Jamie Little determination was nary mode to repair the car to effort to get it moving for erstwhile the contention would spell to afloat speed.
The contention had already been delayed for astir an hr arsenic drops of rainfall fell conscionable arsenic the lawsuit was astir to get underway.
The infinitesimal became 1 of the odder moments seen astatine the Indy 500 successful caller memory.
May 25, 2025; Indianapolis, Indiana: IndyCar Series operator Scott McLaughlin reacts aft crashing connected the gait thigh of the 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)
"I truly person nary thought what happened," helium told Little coming retired of the infield attraction center. "Just truly upset for my team. They built maine a fantastic car again. I’m truly atrocious to my sponsors, to my fans, my family. I don’t cognize what happened.
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"I can’t judge we’re retired of the race. I had truthful overmuch anticipation today. Yeah, astir apt the worst infinitesimal of my life."
McLaughlin was acceptable to commencement successful 10th spot connected the 4th enactment extracurricular of Conor Daly. Alexander Rossi was connected the different broadside of Daly.
He had a pugnacious week up of the Indy 500 arsenic helium was 1 of the drivers who suffered scary crashes during practice.
McLaughlin finished sixth astatine the Indianapolis 500 past play – it was the champion decorativeness of his career. Sunday represented the worst decorativeness of his vocation astatine the race.
Scott McLaughlin, of New Zealand, waits for the commencement of signifier for the Indianapolis 500 car contention astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway successful Indianapolis, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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This season, McLaughlin had 3 top-five finishes and 4 top-10 finishes.
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