Indy 500 qualifying postponed to Sunday with condensed format

As a consequence of fixed rain showers all through the day on Saturday, qualifying for the one hundred and tenth working of the Indianapolis 500 has been canceled for the day, and all the session has been pushed to Sunday.

Saturday was imagined to set grid positions 16-33 whereas additionally deciding which drivers would advance into the ‘Ultimate 15’ for Pole Day tomorrow.

Now, there can be no ‘Ultimate 15’ as IndyCar scraps the newly created spherical, which was their reply to a yr with no bumping. 

As an alternative, each automotive will get one try at a four-lap qualifying run with no further makes an attempt allowed. The quickest 12 will switch to the Prime 12 spherical, with an opportunity to then advance additional into the Firestone Quick Six and struggle for pole on the finish of the day.

FOX Sports activities 2 and FOX will cut up the protection between Sunday’s on-track motion with all of it additionally being streamed on FOX One, and the complete up to date schedule for Sunday is as follows:

9:30am EST — Qualifying follow — FOX SPORTS 2

12:00pm EST — Qualifying (all automobiles) — FOX SPORTS 2

4:30pm EST — Prime 12 qualifying (protection begins at 4pm) — FOX 

6:00pm EST – Quick 6 qualifying for pole — FOX

This marks the primary time since 2008 that a complete day of qualifying was misplaced, per IMS president Doug Boles. “We tried arduous,” he mentioned on-line after the postponement. “Would have gone late. Mom Nature had different plans. Thanks followers for being right here and so affected person.

2025’s rookie pole-sitter Robert Shwartzman won’t have an opportunity to go back-to-back as each he and Prema Racing are usually not participating on this yr’s race. He’s the primary Indy 500 pole-sitter since Bruno Junqueira in 2003 to not be again on the occasion the next yr.

Scott Dixon, who would be the first driver out on the monitor for qualifying, can be in search of a record-tying sixth pole in IndyCar’s crown jewel occasion, matching Rick Mears.

Defending race winner Alex Palou, Jacob Abel, and ‘Double’ hopeful Katherine Legge would be the closing three drivers to exit on monitor within the first spherical of qualifying.

The complete qualifying order could be discovered under:

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– The Motorsport.com Crew