Two-time defending Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden had the fastest lap of the 2-hour final practice on Carb Day at 225.687 mph.

Josef Newgarden's car he won the 2024 Indy 500 with had the same modified attenuator Penske failed tech inspection with during qualifying for the 2025 race. INDIANAPOLIS — The violation that ...

The famed “Month of May” concludes with the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500. Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden is aiming to become the first driver ever to win three consecutive Indy 500s, but to do so, he’ll have to do it from the final row of the grid.

This year, like all years, the month of May at Indianapolis culminates in the 109th edition of the Indianapolis 500, the signature race for the NTT IndyCar Series and a motorsports institution well beyond the state of Indiana.

Boles said he offered Callum Ilott, Kyle Kirkwood and Marcus Ericsson the chance to skip the banquet, but they showed up. Those drivers' cars failed post-race inspection and were penalized. Ilott had finished 12th but is shown 33rd; Kirkwood, from sixth to 32nd; and Ericsson from second to 31st.

Roger Penske delivered the command for drivers to start their engines Sunday at the Indianapolis 500, then watched one of his own drivers crash out before it even began and another fail to finish.

Newgarden turned a lap at 225.687 to top the timing charts in Friday’s Carb Day final practice session. He was followed by fellow two-time race-winner Takuma Sato (225.415) and six-time series champion Scott Dixon (225.200).