Four-time Indianapolis 500 ... 31 race wins and has been the championship runner-up four times. Michael McDowell, driver of the #34 Long John Silver's Ford, leads the field to the green flag ...

Late last year, it was announced that the entire 2025 INDYCAR season would be carried flag-to-flag on the main ... guaranteed a start at any non-Indy 500 race with over 27 cars.

The allure of the Indianapolis 500 is tantalizing ... Palou fought all the way back up to 9 th by the checkered flag. And in 2023, a race he started on pole, the Ganassi driver fell victim ...

When Marco Andretti was an Indianapolis 500 rookie in 2006, he was in the lead, heading to the checkered flag before he was passed by Sam Hornish, Jr. less than 200 yards from winning the race.