109th Indianapolis 500

Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Indianapolis 500
Sanctioning body	IndyCar
Season	2025 IndyCar season
Date	May 25, 2025[1]
Pre-race ceremonies
Pace car	Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
Pace car driver	Michael Strahan[2]
TV in the United States
Network	FOX[3]
Announcers	Will Buxton,James Hinchcliffe,Townsend Bell
Chronology
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The2025 Indianapolis 500 (branded as the109th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge) is anIndyCar Series event scheduled to be held on Sunday, May 25, 2025, at theIndianapolis Motor Speedway inSpeedway, Indiana. The race will be part of the2025 NTT IndyCar Series season. Themonth of May activities will formally began with theIndyCar Grand Prix on thecombined road course. The race will be broadcast onFOX for the first time in its history.

Josef Newgarden ofTeam Penske enters as the two-time defending race winner.Kyle Larson will make another attempt at the "Double Duty" after failing to succeed in 2024, asthat year's Coca-Cola 600 was called for rain.^[4][5][6] The 2025 race marks the first year ofhybridenergy recovery system powertrains at Indianapolis. The new ERC powertrains were first introduced in the series in July 2024 atMid-Ohio.^[7]

TheIndianapolis 500, commonly called the Indy 500, is held at theIndianapolis Motor Speedway, a 2.5-mile (4.02 km) pavedoval. First held in1911, it is currently a points-paying race of theNTT IndyCar Series. The event is contested by"Indy cars", aformula of professional-level, single-seat, opencockpit,open-wheel, purpose-built race cars. The race is the most prestigious event of theIndyCar calendar, and one of the oldest andmost important automobile races in the world.^[9] The racetraditionally has a field of 33 cars.

On May 25, 2022, it was announced that online financial services company Gainbridge reached a multiyear agreement to extend theirpresenting sponsorship of the Indianapolis 500.^[10] The extension was for an undisclosed length. This will be the third year under the current deal.^[11] Gainbridge originally signed a four-year deal which was in place from 2019 to 2022.^[12]

The 2025 Indianapolis 500 will be the sixth race of the2025 NTT IndyCar Series season.^[13]Álex Palou won the first two races of the season atSt. Petersburg andThermal Club. The season continues with races atLong Beach,Alabama and theSonsio Grand Prix on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

All entries utilize aspecDallaraIR18 chassis withuniversal aero kit and 2020-adopted aeroscreen.Honda (HRC) andChevrolet (Ilmor) are the current engine providers.Firestone is the exclusive tire supplier. There are currently 34 confirmed entries, including eightformer winners and four race rookies.Abel Motorsports declined to enter, instead electing to provide technical support and a back-up car forJacob Abel's entry atDale Coyne Racing.^[14]

No.	Driver	Team	Engine	Sponsor	Ref.
2	Josef Newgarden W	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Shell	[15]
3	Scott McLaughlin	Team Penske	Chevrolet	DEX Imaging	[16]
4	David Malukas	A. J. Foyt Racing	Chevrolet	TBD	[18]
5	Pato O'Ward	Arrow McLaren	Chevrolet	Arrow Electronics	[19]
6	Nolan Siegel R	Arrow McLaren	Chevrolet	Arrow Electronics	[20]
06	Hélio Castroneves W	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	TBD	[21]
7	Christian Lundgaard	Arrow McLaren	Chevrolet	VELO	[22]
8	Kyffin Simpson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	Journie	[23]
9	Scott Dixon W	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	PNC Bank	[24]
10	Álex Palou	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	DHL	[25]
12	Will Power W	Team Penske	Chevrolet	Verizon	[26]
14	Santino Ferrucci	A. J. Foyt Racing	Chevrolet	Sexton	[17]
15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	Fifth Third Bank	[27]
17	Kyle Larson	Arrow McLaren withRick Hendrick	Chevrolet	Hendrick Cars	[28]
18	Rinus VeeKay	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	askROI	[29]
20	Alexander Rossi W	ECR	Chevrolet	Java House	[30]
21	Christian Rasmussen	ECR	Chevrolet	Splenda	[30]
23	Ryan Hunter-Reay W	DRR-Cusick Motorsports	Chevrolet	TBD	[31]
24	Jack Harvey	DRR-Cusick Motorsports	Chevrolet	INVST	[31]
26	Colton Herta	Andretti Global withCurb-Agajanian	Honda	Gainbridge	[32]
27	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Global	Honda	TBD	[33]
28	Marcus Ericsson W	Andretti Global	Honda	Bryant	[34]
30	Devlin DeFrancesco	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	EVTEC Group	[35]
33	Ed Carpenter	ECR	Chevrolet	TBD	[30]
45	Louis Foster R	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	MI Jack	[36]
51	Jacob Abel R	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	TBD	[37]
60	Felix Rosenqvist	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	Sirius XM	[38]
66	Marcus Armstrong	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	Sirius XM	[39]
75	Takuma Sato W	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	Amada	[40]
76	Conor Daly	Juncos Hollinger Racing	Chevrolet	TBD	[41]
77	Sting Ray Robb	Juncos Hollinger Racing	Chevrolet	TBD	[42]
83	Robert Shwartzman R	Prema Racing	Chevrolet	TBD	[43]
90	Callum Ilott	Prema Racing	Chevrolet	TBD	[44]
98	Marco Andretti	Andretti Global	Honda	Mapei	[45]

•  W  Former Indianapolis 500 winner
•  R  Indianpolis 500 rookie

Rookie rules for the Indianapolis 500 include the mandate that a driver pass a supervised high-speed oval test before he/she is allowed to participate in the official Rookie Orientation Program (ROP) at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.^[46] Approved venues for the initial high-speed oval track test includeTexas Motor Speedway,Homestead–Miami Speedway, and a few other select venues.^[47]

The Rookie Orientation Program at Indianapolis consists of three phases. For phase 1, each driver is required to complete ten laps between 205–210 mph (330–338 km/h), while demonstrating satisfactory car control, proper racing line, and safe interaction with other cars on the circuit. The laps do not have to be consecutive. Phase 2 is fifteen laps between 210–215 mph (338–346 km/h), and phase 3 is fifteen laps over 215 mph (346 km/h). Veteran drivers that have not competed in an IndyCar oval race since theprevious year's Indy 500 are required to take a refresher test. The refresher test consists of phase 2 and phase 3 of the aforementioned rookie test.^[48]

A private Rookie Orientation Program session was held October 10, 2024 forNolan Siegel ofArrow McLaren.^[49] Siegel had passed ROP the previous May, however, he failed to qualify for the race, necessitating a re-take of the rookie test. Siegel passed the three-phase test without incident.

A two-day offseason test was held On October 10–11, 2024. Eleven teams were in attendance to evaluate thehybridenergy recovery system powertrains which were adopted midway through the 2024 IndyCar season. On Thursday,Josef Newgarden (Team Penske),Pato O'Ward (Arrow McLaren), andÁlex Palou (Ganassi) primarily conducted tire tests for Firestone. On Friday, all eleven teams participated.Álex Palou (224.342 mph) turned the fastest lap of the day. No incidents were reported.^[50]

The full-field Open Test is scheduled for April 23–24, 2025.

The race will be carried live byFOX for the first time, as the network will take over fromNBC, who had been the television broadcaster since 2019.^[3] On January 14, 2025, FOX announced their primary broadcast team for the full IndyCar season, withWill Buxton serving as lead commentator andJames Hinchcliffe andTownsend Bell retaining their analyst roles they had previously held with NBC.^[51] On February 27, FOX announced their full season pit reporters to be Kevin Lee and Georgia Henneberry.Jack Harvey was also announced as a pit reporter, but will not participate in FOX's broadcast of the Indianapolis 500 as he is set to drive in the event.^[52]

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