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Power tops rain interrupted opening Indy 500 practice

Team Penske has fired the first warning shot at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, topping Practice 1 for the 109th Indianapolis 500 thanks to Will Power.

Simon Chapman

14 May 2025

// IndyCar

Power tops rain interrupted opening Indy 500 practice — Will Power topped Practice 1 ahead of the 109th Indianapolis 500. Image: Joe Skibinski

The Australian clocked a session-best 227.026 mph lap late on Wednesday to be the only driver in the 227 mph bracket.

Lightning near the speedway brought proceedings to a close with 30 minutes left on the clock.

Team Penske stablemate Josef Newgarden, a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, was second with a 226.971 mph that stood atop the pylon for much of the day.

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou and Scott Dixon were third and fourth respectively while Scott McLaughlin bookended the top five for Team Penske.

In all, drivers got roughly three hours of on-track running after proceedings were delayed by rain.

The day was incident-free, though there were curious scenes for IndyCar newcomers Prema who spent the lion’s share of the day parked up.

Callum Ilott and Robert Shwartzman and were last and second-to-last, respectively. Ilott ran 16 laps with a 217.189 mph effort his best of the day. Shwartzman, meanwhile, cut just six laps with a 217.836 mph best.

Of the no-tow runners, Andretti Global’s Kyle Kirkwood led the way on a 219.497 mph lap ahead of Newgarden and surprise packet Jacob Abel for Dale Coyne Racing, who could make his Indy 500 debut this year as long as he qualifies.

Practice is scheduled to continue on Thursday at 2:30am AEST.

Results: 109th Indianapolis 500, Practice 1

Pos	Num	Driver	Team	Engine	Speed	Lap	Diff	Gap	Fastest Lap	Laps
1	12	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevy	227.026	39.643	39.643		61	73
2	2	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Chevy	226.971	39.6527	0.0097	0.0097	26	63
3	10	Alex Palou	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	226.673	39.7047	0.0617	0.052	29	51
4	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	225.059	39.9896	0.3466	0.2849	4	53
5	3	Scott McLaughlin	Team Penske	Chevy	225.005	39.9991	0.3561	0.0095	41	52
6	6	Helio Castroneves	Meyer Shank Racing w/ Curb‑Agajanian	Honda	224.523	40.085	0.442	0.0859	12	25
7	20	Alexander Rossi	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevy	224.347	40.1165	0.4735	0.0315	20	51
8	66	Marcus Armstrong	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	224.212	40.1405	0.4975	0.024	9	59
9	28	Marcus Ericsson	Andretti Global	Honda	224.169	40.1483	0.5053	0.0078	23	47
10	98	Marco Andretti	Andretti Herta w/Marco & Curb‑Agananian	Honda	224.147	40.1522	0.5092	0.0039	28	44
11	21	Christian Rasmussen	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevy	223.933	40.1906	0.5476	0.0384	65	75
12	4	David Malukas	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Chevy	223.176	40.3269	0.6839	0.1363	8	35
13	24	Jack Harvey	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Chevy	222.822	40.3909	0.7479	0.064	27	47
14	23	Ryan Hunter‑Reay	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Chevy	222.704	40.4123	0.7693	0.0214	28	50
15	33	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevy	222.66	40.4204	0.7774	0.0081	25	39
16	26	Colton Herta	Andretti Global w/Curb‑Agajanian	Honda	222.537	40.4427	0.7997	0.0223	38	40
17	77	Sting Ray Robb	Juncos Hollinger Racing	Chevy	222.438	40.4608	0.8178	0.0181	34	37
18	60	Felix Rosenqvist	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	222.335	40.4794	0.8364	0.0186	11	55
19	27	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Global	Honda	222.03	40.535	0.892	0.0556	37	39
20	6	Nolan Siegel	Arrow McLaren	Chevy	221.822	40.5731	0.9301	0.0381	40	69
21	76	Conor Daly	Juncos Hollinger Racing	Chevy	221.671	40.6008	0.9578	0.0277	13	33
22	8	Kyffin Simpson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	221.629	40.6084	0.9654	0.0076	72	84
23	7	Christian Lundgaard	Arrow McLaren	Chevy	221.262	40.6758	1.0328	0.0674	49	51
24	17	Kyle Larson	Arrow McLaren	Chevy	221.207	40.6858	1.0428	0.01	5	45
25	30	Devlin DeFrancesco	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	221.201	40.687	1.044	0.0012	40	42
26	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	221.142	40.6978	1.0548	0.0108	33	35
27	14	Santino Ferrucci	AJ Foyt Enterprises	Chevy	221.048	40.7151	1.0721	0.0173	6	21
28	51	Jacob Abel	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	220.983	40.7271	1.0841	0.012	36	40
29	5	Pato O’Ward	Arrow McLaren	Chevy	220.263	40.8602	1.2172	0.1331	33	35
30	45	Louis Foster	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	220.063	40.8973	1.2543	0.0371	7	54
31	75	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	219.998	40.9095	1.2665	0.0122	21	29
32	18	Rinus Veekay	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	219	41.0959	1.4529	0.1864	31	54
33	83	Robert Shwartzman	Prema Racing	Chevy	217.836	41.3155	1.6725	0.2196	6	6
34	90	Callum Ilott	Prema Racing	Chevy	217.189	41.4385	1.7955	0.123	11	16

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Power tops rain interrupted opening Indy 500 practice

Team Penske has fired the first warning shot at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, topping Practice 1 for the 109th Indianapolis 500 thanks to Will Power.

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