Reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou seized the championship lead Sunday with his win at Long Beach, a victory he believes was only made possible by a stellar pit stop under caution.

Meyer Shank Racing’s Felix Rosenqvist says his slip from first to second in the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach was “a little bit frustrating,” but he’s also proud of his and the team’s bounceback from early-season woes.

Four-time and defending IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou scored his third win of the 2026 season with a clinical drive to victory in the 51st Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, after vaulting polesitter Felix Rosenqvist in the pit stops.

After the team won the IMSA race and IndyCar pole within the space of a few hours, co-owner Mike Shank says a low-key celebration is in order.

Rosenqvist comes into the weekend 14th in the points with best finishes of 12th at St. Petersburg and Phoenix, and said that besting the field in qualifying on Saturday – his second Long Beach pole in three years – is an important step toward arresting the slide.

There were a lot of questions surrounding how the single-lap Fast Six format would work at Long Beach, and it was Felix Rosenqvist who proved to have the answers. The Meyer Shank Racing driver backed up his 2024 pole at this event by again earning himself the first spot on the grid for Sunday’s race.

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyffin Simpson has been retroactively penalized by the IndyCar Series for triggering the end-of-race crash that put Arrow McLaren’s Nolan Siegel and Dale Coyne Racing’s Romain Grosjean into the wall and out of the contest.

Driver and team have confirmed the continuation of Helio's "Drive For 5" with the No. 06 Honda sponsored by Cliffs steel.

Palou, Rahal, Rosenqvist, and McLaughlin all highlighted how much fun they had taking to the track for the first time on Friday.

The track is big and bold and the best driver from the first-ever session at the Java House Grand Prix of Arlington was flying on Friday at St. Petersburg polesitter Scott McLaughlin set the new standard for speed.