Christian Lundgaard at the 2025 IndyCar Grand Prix of Portland.
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2025 IndyCar Grand Prix of Portland Race LIVE UPDATES!

Live updates from the 2025 IndyCar Grand Prix of Portland race.

Hamish Bailey

10 Aug 2025

20:39

Alexander Rossi already challenged by Christian Lundgaard

Lundgaard is all over the back of Rossi as he tries to push on back to the front after a six place grid penalty.

20:38

We go green!

Pato O'Ward leads the field away but is challenged by Felix Rosenqvist into T1. It's clean through the corner for everyone.

20:33

Cars on track

Pato O'Ward leads the cars behind the pace car. We're moments from the start.

20:31

Warmest Portland race in history

No other Portland race has been held in hotter conditions with extreme weather warnings put out across Oregon earlier today.

20:28

Drivers are in their cars

Hopefully we will get away soon as the drivers are now in their cars waiting to go.

20:13

Race broadcast to begin at 20:15pm GMT

There seems to be a slight delay in Portland - this also happened in Laguna Seca due to the Euros Final between the Lionesses and Spain going to penalties.

20:10

Weather at Portland

It's currently 27 degrees in Portland with clear skies and a wind gusts of 11km/h.

The heat will have an effect on the tyres so we'll see if this gives them a shorter life over the race.

20:01

Coverage is live

We're live at the Portland track, we're expected to get going within the next 10 minutes or so.

19:59

David Malukas calls his AJ Foyt IndyCar a "rocket ship"

Malukas will start fourth in today's race but qualified fifth after almost eliminated in Group One.

Read what he had to say.

David Malukas will start fourth in the 2025 IndyCar Portland race.
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19:55

Qualifying recap

Pato O'Ward leads the field while Alex Palou will start fifth but it was not plain sailing for either in yesterday's qualifying.

Christian Lundgaard will take a six place grid penalty for an unapproved engine change.
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19:51

Palou keeps it cool ahead of the race

Alex Palou kept it cool in the post-qualifying press conference shrugging off suggestions that he wants to win the title in Portland.

"If we can get it tomorrow, great, if we can't, it's ok"

19:47

Pato O'Ward doesn't believe he can win the title

Despite mathematically the only driver apart from Alex Palou who could still win the title, O'Ward relinquished that Palou as "already won it" after qualifying.

Pato O'Ward at the Grand Prix of Monterey
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19:44

Here's your starting grid

Christian Lundgaard may have taken the P1 Award but he will start seventh after an engine change.

There's a few other penalties up and down the grid that changes the starting grid from the qualifying results.

Here's your starting grid.

Christian Lundgaard with his P1 award.
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19:39

How can Alex Palou win the championship today?

Alex Palou needs to shrink his lead in the championship to Pato O'Ward from 121 points to 107 points in order to walk away from Portland with the title.

Here's how he can do it.