Also, Christian Lundgaard, Marco Andretti and Graham Rahal are involved. The leaders barely get to the start/finish line before Benjamin Pedersen and Ed Carpenter are sent into the inside wall on the front straight. Restart with 4 laps to go: Yet another red flag. Marcus Ericsson runs from the field and employs the "Dragon" again. Restart with 1 lap to go: Josef Newgarden takes the lead on the back stretch. The first caution came about 90 laps in, and there was another at Lap 150. The race had nearly been caution-free before the late mayhem. Contenders Rosenqvist and Pato O'Ward were among the cars taken out in the crashes that prompted the race stoppages. Tony Kanaan, in his final Indy 500, finished 16th, one place behind four-time race winner Castroneves.Ī tire from Kyle Kirkwood's car sailed over a fence in Turn 2 in one of the red flag crashes, but no fans appeared to be seriously injured. The rest of the top 10: Scott Dixon, Sato, Conor Daly, Herta and VeeKay.Įricsson, Palou, Dixon and Sato all drive for Chip Ganassi Racing. Herta had the most on-track passes with 34.įelix Rosenqvist, who started 3rd, finished 27th after being involved in a late crash.Įricsson, who was trying to become the first repeat winner since Helio Castroneves in 2001-02, finished second, followed by Ferrucci, pole-sitter Palou and Rossi. Fourteen drivers led a lap: Pato O'Ward (39), Alex Palou (38), Felix Rosenqvist (33), Ericsson (20), Rinus VeeKay (24), Santino Ferrucci (11), Hunter-Reay (8), Callum Ilott (5), Alexander Rossi (4), Takuma Sato (2), and Will Power, Helio Castroneves and Colton Herta (1 each). Seventeen drivers finished on the lead lap. Newgarden started 17th, the furthest back for a winner since Ryan Hunter-Reay started 19th in 2014. View Gallery: See Josef Newgarden, winner of the 2023 Indy 500
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