Indianapolis 500 starting lineup: What is the grid for Sunday's Indycar series race?
Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect the new lineup after Josef Newgarden and Will Power were moved to the back of Sunday's grid.
The 109th edition of the Indianapolis 500 is nearly here and the event already delivered its first surprise. Rookie Robert Schwartzman of Israel stunned the rest of the field by winning the 2025 Indianapolis 500 pole position ahead of his first appearance at "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" on Sunday
Shwartzman, who hails from Tel Aviv, became the first rookie driver to win the Indianapolis 500 pole since 1983 in the No. 83 PREMA Racing Chevrolet. Prema Racing is also in its first season as a team on the Indy Car series and became the first team in more than 40 years to take pole position in their first appearance at the biggest American open-wheel race of the year.
Takuma Sato, who won the Indy 500 in 2017, posted the second-fastest time in qualifying and two-time runner-up Pato O’Ward took third. They will join Shwartzman on the front row for next Sunday’s race. Josef Newgarden is the two-time defending Indianapolis 500 champion and will have to start from the back of the grid in his pursuit of an unprecedented third-straight win due to pre-race rules violations.
Here's a look at the complete starting lineup for this year's Indianapolis 500, as well as how to watch Sunday's race:
2025 Indy 500 starting lineup
(Car number in parentheses, followed by driver, team, manufacturer; R=rookie; W=former winner)
- (83) Robert Shwartzman (R), Prema Racing, Chevrolet
- (75) Takuma Sato (W), Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda
- (5) Pato O'Ward, Arrow McLaren, Chevrolet
- (9) Scott Dixon (W), Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda
- (60) Felix Rosenqvist, Meyer Shank Racing, Honda
- (10) Alex Palou, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda
- (4) David Malukas, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet
- (7) Christian Lundgaard, Arrow McLaren, Chevrolet
- (28) Marcus Ericsson (W), Andretti Global, Honda
- (3) Scott McLaughlin, Team Penske, Chevrolet
- (76) Conor Daly, Juncos Hollinger Racing, Chevrolet
- (20) Alexander Rossi (W), Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet
- (8) Kyffin Simpson, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda
- (33) Ed Carpenter, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet
- (14) Santino Ferrucci, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet
- (30) Devlin DeFrancesco, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda
- (77) Sting Ray Robb, Juncos Hollinger Racing, Chevrolet
- (21) Christian Rasmussen, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet
- (17) Kyle Larson, Arrow McLaren, Chevrolet
- (45) Louis Foster (R), Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda
- (90) Callum Ilott, Prema Racing, Chevrolet
- (06) Helio Castroneves (W), Meyer Shank Racing, Honda
- (27) Kyle Kirkwood, Andretti Global, Honda
- (6) Nolan Siegel (R), Arrow McLaren, Chevrolet
- (23) Ryan Hunter-Reay (W), Dreyer & Reinbold Racing/Cusick Motorsports, Chevrolet
- (24) Jack Harvey, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing/Cusick Motorsports, Chevrolet
- (26) Colton Herta, Andretti Global, Honda
- (15) Graham Rahal, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda
- (98) Marco Andretti, Andretti Global, Honda
- (66) Marcus Armstrong, Meyer Shank Racing, Honda
- (18) Rinus Veekay, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda
- (2) Josef Newgarden (W), Team Penske, Chevrolet
- (12) Will Power (W), Team Penske, Chevrolet
How to watch the Indy 500: Date, time, TV and streaming
- Date: Sunday, May 25
- TV time: 10 a.m. ET
- Race time: 12:45 p.m. ET
- TV channel: FOX
- Live stream: Fubo (free trial to new subscribers)
- Location: Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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