IndyCar Ontario Honda Dealers Indy at Toronto leaderboard, crashes, starting lineup, time

Indianapolis Star

4 days ago

Colton Herta starts from the pole position with IndyCar Series points leader Alex Palou beside him for the 90-lap Ontario Honda Dealers Indy in downtown Toronto on a 1.786-mile layout.
Herta won from the pole in 2024, edging front-row starter Kyle Kirkwood at the finish line, with Scott Dixon completing the podium. Dixon has four wins on this layout, but he starts back in the pack after making an unapproved engine change.
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The race is on to bring the car back into racing shape.
Chip Ganassi Racing doesn't send its cars onto the track for the warm-up.
Row 1
1, Colton Herta
2, Alex Palou
Row 2
3, Marcus Armstrong
4, Will Power
Row 3
5, Graham Rahal
6, Kyle Kirkwood
Row 4
7, Louis Foster
8, Marcus Ericsson
Row 5
9, Rinus Veekay
10, Pato O'Ward
Row 6
11, Callum Ilott
12, Nolan Siegel
Row 7
13, Kyffin Simpson
14, Scott McLaughlin
Row 8
15, David Malukas
16, Felix Rosenqvist
Row 9
17, Scott Dixon (6-spot grid penalty after qualifying 11th)
18, Josef Newgarden
Row 10
19, Christian Lundgaard
20, Robert Shwartzman
Row 11
21, Conor Daly
22, Christian Rasmussen
Row 12
23, Santino Ferrucci
24, Alexander Rossi
Row 13
25, Sting Ray Robb
26, Devlin DeFrancesco
Row 14
27, Jacob Abel
Alex Palou, has won seven races, Kyle Kirkwood three, and Scott Dixon and Pato O'Ward one each. Palou's 129-point lead over second-place O'Ward is more than two races of max points.
Will Power and Colton Herta are tied for 8th with 244 points. Who comes out of Toronto ahead?
We've seen it twice this year, and it's largely been the case the last couple years: The Andretti Global street course package is on another level, as we saw last year with Herta and teammate Kyle Kirkwood ran 1-2 for all but four laps of the 85 run on the streets of Toronto (with those four solely coming through pit exchanges). Herta won the last race here and has two poles and three podiums in his last three starts at Toronto. Though there's always a chance that disaster strikes, I'm going to take the odds on Herta.
Santino Ferrucci and David Malukas, A.J. Foyt teammates, are tied for 10th with 237 points. Who comes out of Toronto ahead?
Although Ferrucci has finished six of the eight road or street course races better than Malukas, the performance I saw across at the Detroit Grand Prix weekend (other than Malukas' tap to the rear of Alex Palou that earned Malukas an essentially day-ending penalty) leads me to think he has an edge. If he can keep his nose clean and this race doesn't deliver too much chaos — like the ways in which Ferrucci flipped the script for his podiums at Detroit and Road America — I like Malukas this weekend.
Josef Newgarden and Christian Rasmussen are tied for 14th with 207 points. Who comes out of Toronto ahead?
Before a mechanical failure ended his day at Detroit, Rasmussen was on for an incredibly strong showing — and then again, Newgarden had to fight hard just for a 9th-place finish there. Both these drivers — and their cars and teams — have shown volatility lately, in terms of results. So give me the veteran driver and more historically successful team. I don't think it's that ever-elusive 2025 win Newgarden continues to hunt, but a top-10 is reasonable, and I'm marginally less confident Rasmussen can match it.
(All times ET; all IndyCar sessions are on IndyCar Live, IndyCar Radio and Sirius XM Channel 218)
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TV: Coverage begins at noon ET, Sunday, July 20, 2025, on Fox. Green flag is scheduled for 12:22 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: Partly cloudy and highs in the upper 70s.
Push-to-pass: 200 seconds total in increments of up to 20 seconds.
Tire allotment: Five sets primary and five sets alternate to be used during the event weekend. Rookie drivers may use one additional set of primary tires. Teams must use one set of primary and one set of new (sticker) alternate tires for at least two laps in the race.
The 2025 IndyCar Series schedule includes 17 races, all televised on Fox. (Times are ET; %-downtown street course, &-road course, *-oval)
March 2, St. Petersburg, Florida % (Winner: Alex Palou)
March 23, Thermal, California & (Winner: Alex Palou)
April 13, Long Beach, California % (Winner: Kyle Kirkwood)
May 4, Birmingham, Alabama & (Winner: Alex Palou)
May 10, Indianapolis & (Winner: Alex Palou)
May 25, Indianapolis 500 * (Winner: Alex Palou)
June 1, Detroit % (Winner: Kyle Kirkwood)
June 15, St. Louis * (Winner: Kyle Kirkwood)
June 22, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin & (Winner: Alex Palou)
July 6, Lexington, Ohio & (Winner: Scott Dixon)
July 12, Newton, Iowa * (Winner: Pato O'Ward)
July 13, Newton, Iowa * (Winner: Alex Palou)
July 20, Toronto %, noon
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.
(Team and drivers; *-Indianapolis 500 only)