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.

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Ahead of his second double-duty attempt on Sunday, the daughter of Kyle Larson, Audrey Larson, was recently seen uniquely promoting him.

With Carb Day over and done with, all that's left is for Kyle Larson to get ready for 1,100 miles of racing on Sunday.

And talk of Indianapolis, and it will almost certainly bring the world's most famous 500 Mile Race to the forefront of the mind and imagination. From its beginnings as a yard of bricks laid just past the turn of the 20th century,