Overview
- Christian Lundgaard passed David Malukas with 18 laps to go Saturday to win the Sonsio Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.
- Early cautions, including a Turn 1 pileup that involved Felix Rosenqvist, Pato O’Ward, Scott Dixon and Caio Collet, reshuffled the field and set up off-sequence strategies.
- Alexander Rossi’s hybrid system stalled on the frontstretch and the full-course yellow that followed forced Alex Palou and Kyle Kirkwood to pit under caution and lose track position.
- Palou started from pole with a 1:09.748 lap but recovered only to fifth as Malukas, Graham Rahal and Josef Newgarden completed the podium behind Lundgaard.
- The race ran under IndyCar’s simplified push-to-pass rules after Long Beach’s software error, and Rossi’s stoppage renewed focus on hybrid reliability heading into Indy 500 preparations.