Team Penske starts up from in tonight's
IndyCar Series race at World Wide Technology Raceway near St. Louis in Madison, Ill.
Will Power won pole position for the 260-lap race on the 1.25-mile oval, averaging 180.329 mph. Teammate
Scott McLaughlin starts 2nd — he started on pole the previous two years — and defending race champ
Josef Newgarden starts 5th.
Nathan Brown is your best IndyCar follow, and keep up with coverage throughout the season with IndyStar's motorsports newsletter . We will have leaderboard updates, crashes and highlights, so remember to refresh. Alex Palou has won five races and leads by almost two full races' worth of max points.
Kyle Kirkwood won the other two races.
Josef Newgarden held off Team Penske teammate
Scott McLaughlin for the win. Since 2019, Newgarden (four times) and
Scott Dixon (two) are the only active drivers to win on this track.
We're seven races into a 17-race season, and two drivers have taken checkered flags. Can a third driver enjoy the spoils? For this exercise, Alex Palou and Kyle Kirkwood are out of the equation. Who is most likely to earn his first win of the season? : I’ll take the driver who’s taken pole here each of the last two years and who in five starts in his career at the track is yet to finish outside the top-5:
Scott McLaughlin . The Team Penske driver won twice on short ovals a year ago and finished runner-up at WWTR, too. It’s been a rollercoaster of a year for McLaughlin, but I think he settles things a bit on Sunday.
Something you don't see coming: Alex Palou will have another hiccup and finish outside the top-5, opening the door for his closest competitors in the championship race to chip away at his 90-point lead.
TV : Coverage begins at 8 p.m. ET, Sunday, June 15, 2025, on
Fox . Green flag is scheduled for 8:20 p.m.
Will Buxton is the play-by-play voice, with analysts
James Hinchcliffe and
Townsend Bell . Kevin Lee and Jack Harvey are the pit reporters.
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Sunday : Mostly cloudy with temperatures in the low 80s near sunset.
Hybrid energy deployment : Unlimited activation of 150 kilojoules per lap.
Tire allotment : Ten new sets for the weekend. An extra set will be provided to teams participating in the high-line session before final practice.
June 15 , St. Louis *, 8 p.m.
June 22 , Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin &, 1:30 p.m.
July 6 , Lexington, Ohio &, 1 p.m.
July 12 , Newton, Iowa *, 5 p.m.
July 13 , Newton, Iowa *, 1 p.m.
July 27 , Monterey, California &, 3 p.m.
Aug. 10 , Portland &, 3 p.m.
Aug. 24 , Milwaukee *, 2 p.m.
Aug. 31 , Nashville *, 2:30 p.m.