Palou winning the IndyCar Race at St. Petersburg
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IndyCar | Race | St. Pete | Palou beats Dixon to season-opening victory

IndyCar is officially back! The 2025 IndyCar season begins with a street race in St. Pete and recently renewed Penske driver Scott McLaughlin starting from pole position ahead of Herta and Rosenqvist. Dixon can never be disregarded, and today he is the best starting Ganassi driver from P6, next to the other Andretti drivers and…

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Scott McLaughlin takes home Pole position St. Pete season opener.
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IndyCar | Qualifying | St. Pete | McLaughlin takes home first pole of the season

After an exciting Qualifying session, Scott McLaughlin took home the first pole position of the season in St. Pete. Following a competitive FP2 session where Marcus Ericsson topped the timesheets, expectations were high heading into today’s qualifying. The Swede had led a remarkably close field, with Rinus VeeKay impressing in second for Dale Coyne Racing…

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Indy NXT | Qualifying | St. Pete | Hauger storms to pole on debut as Andretti take 1-2, full report and results
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Indy NXT | Qualifying | St. Pete | Hauger storms to pole on debut as Andretti take 1-2

Indy NXT qualifying at St. Pete is in the books, full report and results below as the 2025 season kicks off. The fastest time across the two groups would guarantee pole position, with the others from that one starting 3rd, 5th, 7th and so on. Group 1 Drivers in the first group: Hauger, Collet, de…

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Ericsson during FP2 at St. Pete
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IndyCar | FP2 | St. Pete | Ericsson leads from Veekay and Palou in a fragmented session

It’s time for the second practice session of the weekend. Yesterday two times race winner Kyle Kirkwood had impressed and signed the fastest lap time, will he manage to remain on top of FP2 at St. Pete or will someone else snatch that top spot, maybe even recently resigned McLaughlin? Early red flag All drivers…

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Newgarden emotionally opens up on his IndyCar rule breach at St. Pete: “I want to be held accountable for what I did”

The biggest cheating scandal in years has hit IndyCar in the past few days, following the disqualification of Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin from the St. Petersburg round. Team Penske was in fact caught manipulating the overtake software system, with the two drivers able to use push to pass at all race starts and restarts….

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IndyCar debutants Simpson, Rasmussen and Braun reflect on St. Pete

Last weekend marked a very special occasion for some of the drivers on the 2024 grid, as it marked their first official race as IndyCar drivers. The three of them had very different first approaches to the American championship, but overall they all had a rather positive debut. Linus Lundqvist and Tom Blomqvist are also…

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