Winner and losers from Indycar Road America Weekend

This road was an unusually warm NTT Indycar series race weekend in the US. There were additional challenges for the area with those high temples. Tire burning. Acute cockpit heat. And when mistakes began to begin, fuel management and juggling of various possible strategies.

Through all this, the Indycar grid provided a memorable 55-lap shodown around the sightseeing road America-one that ended with a familiar face, but before it overtook various challenges.

Here Xpel Grand Prix is ​​the winner and lost.

Winner: Alex Palu Comes back on the track

It turns out that a potential championship challenge dialogue was short -lived.

After the weekend of the consecutive race, where he dared to see humans behind the wheel – crashed out of Detroit and saw a cool Top -10 in the World Wide Technology Raswe – Palu made his way back to Vijay Lane in Road America.

The path there was atypical. Palu was quickly passed, rarely led the drivers on their strategy and losing to the team partner Scott dixon If any precaution was swept away. But Spaniard never kept a wheel wrong, worked methodically and was on the right strategy when proceeded.

There are potential disadvantages even further. But if Palu is taking maximum advantage of its strong weekends, no one is catching him for the title.

Lost: Team Penske takes itself out of controversy

As the 2025 season has become a trend, the potentially promotional weekend for the team ended with very little profit for the team. This time, the issues were largely self-infusing.

Joseph Newgarden A break was actually caught on Saturday, secretly after Fast 12 Scott dixon Was punished for qualified intervention. It left all three pension cars in the second round, each eventually began in the top 10.

Scott mcaloglin The initial beginnings and the re -reunction jumped before the fourth. Will Power and Newguarden were also in hunting. But things gradually started opening in a strategy-swinging, action-pack race.

Power was earlier to detect trouble, creating an early enemy Kyle Kirkwood When he was too late on the break and Kirkwood took quick action in the race. Kirkwood later paid her back and costs electricity in many places.

Proceeded to get up through the Newgarden Maidan and challenged McLaglin for the position on Lap 18. But in doing so, Tennessy applied brakes very late in 5 turn 5 and forced McLaglin to create aevi action – a step that eventually allowed Palu to win by both drivers.

McLaglin was generally able to escape chaos from there, but reached 12th position by the end of the race. His companions were less lucky. Power and the newguarden race pieces each in the middle stages, in which Power lost his number 12 Chevrolet in the exit of Canada’s corner and Newgarden was spinning from the last corner.

The New Guarden Inside Tire was eliminated from the barrier and race, leaving the US with the result of the 25th position. Power was fortunate enough to avoid damage in its accident, but reached 14th position when the checker flew the flag, due to the position of the lost track.

Winner: Mayor cones manages racing chaos

If you were not given more mayor cones racing in a passing eye on Sunday race, you can be forgiven. Felix rousnakwist And Marcus Armstrong On Fridays and Saturdays were quiet, the top -10 were qualified outside -10 and did not give any real reason for the focus of optimism.

But when it is counted, the teammates of the team changed their luck in the right direction.

The Rosenqvist proceeded in the closing stages, putting himself in the concluding laps in the eyes of the final winner Palu. The Swedish star ran out of time to chase Palu, but in 2023 finished his best finish since Portland. Armstrong was 17 seconds ago from his team partner when the checker flew the flag, but a solid fifth house came.

The results were best in each driver’s season. In the case of Rosenqvist, Run provided a change after a tough stretch in the last five races. For Armstrong, it was a continuity of a solid run, which saw him in the four top -10s in the five races.

Lost: Initial mistakes claim Rob, Shwartzman

Remember when there was complete lack of story in Indycar? This is a non-dust in July.

To make the first precaution of Sunday, the Indycar took just two turns for the field. David malukas When he ran from behind, he was struggling inside the top Christian lundguardSending the spinning Malukas in the gravel trap outside the corner.

Malukas was on the beach, causing caution. But their machine only faced mild damage, allowing Chicago to get rolled after helping Chicago go back to the racing surface once.

The next two were not lucky for the accident. Indianapolis 500 Polester Robert showartzman Lost the control of his premra racing machine and crashed in the corner of Canada on Lap 4. Just six laps later, Sting ray rob The guard was caught by braking Marcus Armstrong Further in turn 5 slammed into concrete barrier to the right side of the driver, barely crashed into the tire barrier.

The two drivers were dropped from the racing, leaving them at the end of the day by the 26th (Rob) and 27th (Schwartzman).

Winner: Feruki, Foyt makes it again

AJ Foet Racing Drivers have started becoming a trend through this middle part of the Indycar season to find their way to the front.

For the fourth-ex-race, Foyt put at least one team inside the top of the day at the end of the day. This time there was a furious around it, which rally in the second half and the bus managed to spread the fuel to the Finnish N route for the result of the third place. This effort was one of the fourth top-five of the Connecticut native in a row, an impressive change is that it failed to finish better than the 11th in the five races.

Malukas was less lucky, began from seventh, but fell backwards after his early lap gravel adventure work. But Malukas’s team played the strategy game well and still finished seventh at the end of the day, giving Foet a pair of promising runs in Wisconsin.

Los: Fuel Gambling comes less for Dixon, Rossi

Watch: All things were considered, a ninth place attempt is not bad for Dixon and number 9 Chip Ganassi Racing Team. Dixon had to roll at 25th position after being punished for qualified intervention on Saturday, so that he is also in dispute for a possible victory and is able to resolve a top -10, impressive.

He said, it could have been so much.

Dixon took an edge in the closing stages of the Sunday race, with an aggressive fuel-strategy to find its way for the front, brought by a host of initial precautions. If he had caught just another yellow in the last term, there is a good chance that the 44 -year -old could not have his first win.

But very important yellow never came, so Dixon had to surrender the lead with just two laps. He reached the ninth place, with Alexander Rossi After playing a similar strategy and stopping with four after going to the 13th.

Winner: I have a drink, cameraman

Remember a week ago when a crashed Dewin Defroncesco Was running on Pit Road to go back to his car and inadvertently became a pioneer for a fallen cameraman?

In the US America, Defrenco built it with a kind of gesture. During the Wisconsin Ace Weekend, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Driver offered the cameraman – Jimmy Kevin Hensley, known as “Bama” – and offered them a bottle of borbon as a current for unexpected tumbles.

The Defrancesco went to finish X in Sunday race – and when he had a fine of three locations to block at a stage, no camera was damaged in scoring.

Loss: Timing and Scoring takes a sesta

Indycar’s online time and scoring were below the series website for the majority of the Sunday race and with this alternative time provider. It eventually returned to the series website inside the last 15 laps, but by then a lot was lost in the race filled with swinging strategies. It is important that any series has functional time and scoring, but perhaps not much more than indicated, which look at their wild strategic ups and downs.

Winner: Shaved ‘Statight Lead Foster for the first pole

The first year of Louis Foster in Indycar is defined by two things: solid speed and their Jeff Gordon-Esk Ruki Mustache.

Foster shaved the statue for a good reason on Friday in Road America.

Thankfully, it was not the only memorable part of the British weekend. A day later, Foster excluded Palu to score an impressive first pole. It eventually did not give a matching racede results-Foster lost the lead on Lap 4 and had to rally through mid-race conflicts to overcome the 11th-but 21-year-old is much something to be proud after a week where he showed his ability again.