Defending Indy 500 winner Alex Palou will start in the top spot again this year at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The four-time IndyCar champion, who won the pole in 2023, qualified first Sunday at the Brickyard with an average speed of 232.248 mph over four laps, topping Alexander Rossi (231.990) and David Malukas (231.877) on the front row.
Felix Rosenqvist (231.375 mph), Santino Ferrucci (230.846) and Pato O’Ward (230.442) qualified on the second row.
QUALIFYING: Click here for results from Sunday’s session
Three hours after qualifying, IndyCar announced that the times of Caio Collet (who had qualified 10th) and Jack Harvey (who qualified 29th) had been disallowed for unapproved modifications to their cars. Collet and Harvey will start from the rear because of the inspection failures.
Rossi and O’Ward will start in backup cars after crashing in practice Monday. Per IndyCar rules, they will keep their starting positions.
Here is the Indy 500 starting lineup by row for the May 24 race with position, driver, car number in parentheses, chassis-engine, speed and time in parentheses:
ROW 1
1. Alex Palou (10), Dallara-Honda, 232.248 mph average over four laps (2 minutes, 35.066 seconds)
2. Alexander Rossi (20), Dallara-Chevrolet, 231.990 (2:35.1792)
3. David Malukas (12), Dallara-Chevy, 231.877 (2:35.2549)
ROW 2
4. Felix Rosenqvist (60), Dallara-Honda, 231.375 (2:35.5914)
5. Santino Ferrucci (14), Dallara-Chevy, 230.846 (2:35.9482)
6. Pato O’Ward (5), Dallara-Chevy, 230.442 (2:36.2218)
ROW 3
7. Kyffin Simpson (8), Dallara-Honda, 230.883 (2:35.9229)
8. Conor Daly (23), Dallara-Chevy, 230.712 (2:36.0390)
9. Scott McLaughlin (3), Dallara-Chevy, 230.577 (2:36.1300)
ROW 4
10. Scott Dixon (9), Dallara-Honda, 230.347 (2:36.2860)
11. Rinus VeeKay (76), Dallara-Chevy, 229.585 (2:36.8048)
12. Takuma Sato (75), Dallara-Honda, 230.995 (2:35.8447)
ROW 5
13. Ed Carpenter (33), Dallara-Chevy 230.829 (2:35.9593)
14. Helio Castroneves (06), Dallara-Honda, 230.811 (2:35.9717)
15. Christian Rasmussen (21), Dallara-Chevy, 230.705 (2:36.0434)
ROW 6
16. Marcus Armstrong (66), Dallara-Honda, 230.701 (2:36.0464)
17. Marcus Ericsson (28), Dallara-Honda, 230.667 (2:36.0690)
18. Christian Lundgaard (7), Dallara-Chevy, 230.661 (2:36.0729)
ROW 7
19. Will Power (26), Dallara-Honda, 230.279 (2:36.3323)
20. Nolan Siegel (6), Dallara-Chevy, 230.213 (2:36.3769)
21. Louis Foster (45), Dallara-Honda, 230.212 (2:36.3773)
ROW 8
22. Ryan Hunter-Reay (31), Dallara-Chevy, 230.202 (2:36.3843)
23. Josef Newgarden (2), Dallara-Chevy, 230.165 (2:36.4098)
24. Romain Grosjean (18), Dallara-Honda, 229.791 (2:36.6643)
ROW 9
25. Kyle Kirkwood (27), Dallara-Honda, 229.607 (2:36.7896)
26. Katherine Legge (11), Dallara-Chevy, 229.456 (2:36.8928)
27. Mick Schumacher (47), Dallara-Honda, 229.450 (2:36.8969)
ROW 10
28. Graham Rahal (15), Dallara-Honda, 229.017 (2:37.1936)
29. Dennis Hauger (19), Dallara-Honda, 228.982 (2:37.2176)
30. Jacob Abel (51), Dallara-Chevy, 228.169 (2:37.7778)
ROW 11
31. Sting Ray Robb (77), Dallara-Chevy, 226.572 (2:38.8901)
32. Caio Collet (4), Dallara-Chevy, 230.539 (2:36.1560)**
33. Jack Harvey (24), Dallara-Chevy, 229.207 (2:37.0634)**
**—Times and speeds were disallowed becuase of technical infractions
