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Thirty-three drivers will take the track at the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway, aiming to win one of the most prestigious races in the world.

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Starting second will be veteran Takuma Sato, driving the No. 75 AMADA Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda. Sato, who leads a driver development program as part of his role as an Executive Advisor at Honda Racing, has won the Indianapolis 500 twice. His first win came back in 2017, and he won it again in 2020.

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The field for the 2025 Indianapolis 500 will be led to the green flag by rookie Robert Shwartzman. The former reserve driver in Formula 1 stunned in qualifying last week to become the rare rookie to land the pole position.

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Two-time defending Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden had the fastest lap of the 2-hour final practice on Carb Day at 225.687 mph.

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.