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2025 Indy 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway LIVE UPDATES!

Live lap-by-lap updates from Indianapolis for the Indy 500.

Follow the live updates from the 2025 Indy 500, the 109th running of the famous race here.

Robert Shwartzman is the shock pole-sitter.

Team Penske duo Josef Newgarden and Will Power were hit with grid penalties, and sent to the back of the 33-car field, after failing technical inspections in qualifying.

The Penske fallout has dominated the build-up to the Indy 500.

Alex Palou is the driver dominating IndyCar and he will have his eye on a famous win tonight.

25 May 2025
19:40
Rossi out with fire

Alexander Rossi's car catches fire as he makes his pitstop. The crew have extinguished the fire, but the 2016 winner is out of the race.

19:38
Lap 75/200

Here is the top five after 75 laps of racing

  1. Takuma Sato
  2. David Malukas
  3. Alex Palou
  4. Conor Daly
  5. Jack Harvey
19:34
Sato and Malukas batting for the lead

Takuma Sato is having to fend off David Malukas, who has been rapid in the #4 A.J. Foyt car since the second roundof pitstops. Just three tenths separate the leading duo.

19:32
Drive-through for Herta

Colton Herta is hit with a drive through penalty for pitlane speed violation.

19:31
Early stop a mistake for Daly

Daly pitted on lap 61 and triggered the second round of pitstops. But that strategy has backfired as he has lost places to both Malukas and Palou.

19:28
Second round of pitstops

All frontrunners head into the pits on lap 62.

19:21
Lap 50/200

Top 10 after 50 laps: Sato, Daly, Malukas, Palou, Ferrucci, O'Ward, Ericsson, Ilott, Herta and Rosenqvist

19:20
Sato back in the lead

Jack Harvey makes his second pitstop (his first stop was on lap 7) and releases Takuma Sato into the lead ahead of Conor Daly.

19:17
Ed Carpenter trio pit

The three Ed Carpenter drivers who led the race have finally hit the pit road. This has promoted Jack Harvey into the lead ahead of Takuma Sato.

19:15
Order (lap 40/200)
  1. Alexander Rossi (yet to stop)
  2. Christian Rasmussen (yet to stop)
  3. Ed Carpenter (yet to stop)
  4. Devlin de Francesco (yet to stop)
  5. Jack Harvey (stopped on lap 7)
  6. Takuma Sato
  7. Rinus Veekay 
  8. Conor Daly
  9. David Malukas
  10. Alex Palou
19:12
Watch out for Conor Daly

Conor Daly has climbed to eighth place, just two stops behind Takuma Sato. Both drivers have pitted once.

19:10
O'Ward down to 13th

 A disastrous restart for Pato O'Ward who is down to P13.

By comparison, early race leader Takuma Sato, who pitted the same time as him, is running sixth.

19:07
Back to green!

Tha race is back underway after a lengthy caution. Christian Rasmussen takes the lead from Alexander Rossi, but both are yet to pit.

19:04
Shwartzman down in 21st

A slow service from the Prema crew has dropped polesitter Robert Shwartzman to 21st place

19:00
Pitstops

Most of the field has pitted under caution. Alexander Rossi is the lead driver not to make a stop.

18:53
Order under caution

Here's how the top 10 looks like under caution (lap 22/200)

  1. Takuma Sato
  2. Pato O'Ward
  3. Felix Rosenqvist
  4. Robert Shwartzman
  5. Marcus Ericsson
  6. Alex Palou
  7. Scott Dixon
  8. Alexander Rossi
  9. David Malukas
  10. Conor Daly
18:52
Caution

The race is back under caution due to weather.

18:49
Penske duo on the move

Josef Newgarden and Will Power have climbed to 25th and 26th respectively after starting from the back of the grid.

With Scott McLaughlin out of the race, Penske's hopes are pinned on those two.

18:45
Lap 11/200 - Sato takes the lead

Another pass for the lead. Takuma Sato hits the front for the first time after overtaking Pato O'Ward.

18:44
Pato O'Ward in the lead

The race resumes after a lengthy caution and Pato O'Ward goes around the outside of Robert Shwartzman to take the lead.
 

Takuma Sato also passes Shwartzman to demote the Prema rookie to third.

18:41
"By far the worst moment of my life"

That's Scott McLaughlin's description of the error that forced him out of the Indy 500 before the race even began.

18:40
Lap 8/200

Order under caution

  1. Robert Shwartzman
  2. Pato O'Ward
  3. Takuma Sato
  4. Scott Dixon
  5. Felix Rosenqvist
18:38
Marco Andretti out

Marco Andretti's race is over on lap 1 after contact with Jack Harvey. The 'Andretti curse' continues.

18:36
Indy 500 begins

Go go go! The Indy 500 is finally underway!

18:33
Lap count has begun

Although the race hasn't officially begun, these pace laps are now being counted towards the race total.