Sunday began with Scott McLaughlin dreaming of his first win in the Indianapolis 500. That dream will have to wait at least another year. McLaughlin was set to start tenth in the Indianapolis 500, but a crash on the pace lap ended his day before it even began.

Josef Newgarden, who entered the 2024 Indy 500 as defending champion, passed O'Ward on turn three in the final lap, securing back-to-back Indy 500 victories. Newgarden became the first driver since Hélio Castroneves in 2001 and 2002 to win the race in back-to-back years.

He won the pole with Italian team Prema Racing, a dominant European organization that this season expanded to IndyCar. Shwartzman has never before raced on an oval and will start alongside two-time winner Takuma Sato and Pato O’Ward, who lost to Newgarden on the last lap year.

Scott McLaughlin will have a new strategist and engineer for the Indianapolis 500 because of a rules infraction that concerned a part on Team Penske cars other than his own, and that has left him both angrily defensive and utterly motivated.

SportsLine's model revealed its 2025 Indianapolis 500 predictions and picks for Indianapolis Motor Speedway, including NASCAR driver Kyle Larson