With bumping off the table this year, IndyCar and broadcast partner FOX have revised the qualifying format for the Indianapolis 500.

The IndyCar Series is making use of its new single-car Firestone Fast Six qualifying process during today’s run for the pole at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. It’s a unique ask of the series’ fastest drivers, who are dispatched from the end of pit lane to make their...

The IndyCar Series is taking the single-car qualifying process it trialed during the Arlington Grand Prix’s Firestone Fast Six and making it a season-long feature at the remaining street races.

The most impressive aspect of the 37-year-old’s performance was his pace on used Firestone alternate tires in the third and final round of qualifying, the Firestone Fast Six.

The Swede demolished the pole contenders with a lap of 1m34.356s in the No. 28 Andretti Global Honda which was nearly a half-second better than Alex Palou’s in the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda to capture his first series pole.

“We had a little hiccup on pit lane,” said Kirkwood, who will start seventh. “I just forgot which lap we needed to do our lap on."

The final stage of qualifying for the Java House Grand Prix of Arlington will make use of oval-style single-car qualifying runs, giving drivers and teams new considerations to ponder.

The IndyCar Series has modified its final round of qualifying on Saturday at the Java House Arlington Grand Prix, which will be settled with single-car runs.

Fast cars on Saturdays tend to make life easier on Sundays. For the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing IndyCar Series team, the pursuit of improved single-lap performance in qualifying has been an area of great investment in 2025, and so far, their efforts have been a success.The three-car program entered the...

The strange ballet of NTT IndyCar Series drivers pulling away from their road or street course pit stall at the end of a session and returning moments later will come to a halt in most cases this year.For the sake of simplicity, IndyCar has modified a provision for segment extensions...