An eventful race around the Indianapolis road course resulted in Alex Palou winning his first race of the 2023 season. The 2021 champion finished a massive 16.8 seconds ahead of second place.
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The race wasn’t that straightforward, however, and it was only in the final stint that Palou was able to pull away from the polesitter Christian Lundgaard and others in the mix.
Arrow McLaren had a banner day, securing three of the top five positions. Pato O’Ward and Alexander Rossi were on the podium, and Felix Rosenqvist came home in fifth.
There were a couple small incidents in the opening laps that took some of the series’ younger drivers out of contention, but the rest of the race saw clean racing with no interruptions in the action.
#DriverTime / GapLaps LedPoints1Alex Palou01:47:56.700352532Pato O’Ward16.80062413Alexander Rossi18.14483364Christian Lundgaard23.480113345Felix Rosenqvist23.92583316Scott Dixon25.52063297Josef Newgarden26.3159–268Marcus Ericsson31.83082259Colton Herta38.4189–2210Graham Rahal48.871272111Romain Grosjean52.5732–1912Will Power59.7698–1813Rinus VeeKay1:07.0708–1714Kyle Kirkwood1:08.1940–1615Marcus Armstrong1:15.8499–1516Scott McLaughlin1:23.6382–1417Devlin DeFrancesco-1 lap–1318Callum Ilott-1 lap–1219Conor Daly-1 lap–1120Jack Harvey-1 lap–1021Agustin Canapino-1 lap–922Helio Castroneves-1 lap–823Santino Ferrucci-5 laps–724Benjamin Pedersen-6 laps–625Simon Pagenaud-27 laps–526David Malukas-83 laps–527Sting Ray Robb-84 laps–5
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