IndyCar Indy Toronto 2025 Race Results

Pat O’Ward won his second victory in the second consecutive weekend after Arrow McLaren put on a good strategy to put the Mexicans in a strong position from the first few laps.

One of the first to pit very early in the race, due to the attention brought by Scott McLaughlin, he led him ahead of the top three of Colton Helta, Marcus Armstrong and Kyle Kirkwood after pitting under warning.

Pallow was out, but his decision to extend his first stint hurt the champion’s electors and allowed Pallow to infuse the victory in his only competition.

Veekay kept Oward behind him before the final stop, but O’Word overcuts Veekay and never looked back.

The moment after he left the car, in his typical cheeky style, Audward said he and his car were blessed with the victory of the birds who pooped his car earlier in the day.

O’Word joked: “Before we warmed up today, one of my guys and birds who dropped their luggage in the car actually dropped the outside front of me.

“(i) I can’t say I saw this coming today, but I felt really good with Prime tires all weekend.

“We were struggling a bit to get an alternative to working in qualifying, and sadly, that’s something you need to transfer.

“I knew I had a great car underneath.

Veekay took the car back to second place in 2025 with the best finish ever, followed by Kyffin Simpson, who was promoted to Podium after David Malukas visited in the final quarter of the race.

Colton Hertha began chasing Simpson on the lap after piting from the lead, but with a slow warning on two laps protected the Chip Ganassi driver’s podium, meaning Paul Sitter finished fourth.

Speaking to FS1, Simpson said:

“We thought we were in the worst position, so we quickly changed to one of our best positions.

“I was really upset because in the mid Ohio, I even managed to win that race realistically. It’s incredible to go back here and get it done.”

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Colton Hertha led the field from the start, and Alex Pallow quickly surpassed Marcus Armstrong to third place.

Hertha created a comfortable gap in front of the first few laps, but Kyle Kirkwood quickly recovered from a poor, fast six yesterday, surpassing Alex Pallow to third place before falling third after laps two.

Pat O’Ward, Marcus Erixon, Nolan Siegel and Scott McLaughlin made early pit stops on Pat O’Ward, Marcus Erixon, Nolan Siegel and Heard, with their prime tyres.

However, the loose wheel nuts meant that the left rear tires of McLaughlin were loosening from the car, sending the Kiwi to the wall and coming out of the race for a second consecutive race.

McLaughlin of Downbeat said:

“I felt something was broken or something on the rear left. I love my guys so I’m not going to drop them.

Carefully opening the pit window to the rest of the grid, and the top three cars darted towards the pit lane while Alex Palou chose to go out.

Scott McLaughlin’s crash led Pat O’Ward to become the leader of alternative strategies following attention.

Leading the field under the green, Palou began building a huge gap of almost two seconds in two seconds.

Mixing the grid between the two different strategies quickly became clear that the people with soft tires outside had no grips.

Kaifin Simpson was the first car to quickly begin to lose place while several cars began to follow as Christian Rasmussen hit the wall after stretching his elbows with Will Power.

Rasmussen managed to pierce the right rear tire and put the car back into the pit, but then returned to the track lap behind the grid.

After the truck turned green, Pallow again led the car, and once again developed a big lead with second place David Marcus, who overtook Louis Foster, after the warning was overtaken.

Meanwhile, alternative strategy cars, further down the grid, continued to return to the top, still led by O’Word.

Armstrong, who had gone ahead of Hertha and Kirkwood, fell behind Andretti’s driver, who had been catching up to catch up behind O’ward, who had been in continuous traffic between him and his race.

O’ward appeared to be stuck behind Alexander Rossi until the former IndyCar world champion slammed the wall.

The incident caused Rossi to puncture as it meant his tires were swinging from the edge and had to be taken to the escape road at Turn 11.

While Palou’s pit crew appeared in the pit lane, IndyCar officials had closed it during the notice that the Spaniards stopped him from making his first stop.

However, a clever call from Arrow Mclaren meant that O’Word could enter Pit Lane before O’Word made this decision.

When it resumed, O’Ward stabbed the grid seventh. But Palou, along with his teammates, chose not to pit it to Chip Ganassi yet.

The big loser at the pit stop was Kyle Kirkwood, who reportedly tweaked Marcus Armstrong when he entered the pit, which swung around the car to exclude him from the race victory.

However, Kirkwood was in touch with Andretti’s teammates, finishing sixth for Erickson.

With the race resume, Alex Pallow was able to create a gap in Dixon before the first turn moment before Jacob Abel tagged Turn 1 and hit the wall.

Josef Newgarden is caught unaware, and collides with Abel, who sends Abel over the Pensuke car.

New Garden has been involved in several crashes this year, including a horrifying moment at Bonmarito, including his flipped over. This is his fifth finish with less than 25.

New Garden said: “A simple case of the wrong place, the wrong time. I just want to thank all the supporters in PPG, Chevrolet and all of my home. I’ll meet you all.”

Several cars were blocked by incidents involving home hero Devlin Defrancesco.

Forced to pit, both Parow and Dixon took over as pits to abandon their lead positions, and came out on the 16th and 18th.

After this initial stop, the duo had to pit relatively quickly, ruined this Chip Ganasi’s chances of victory.

Fighting in the tattered fields, Parow and Dixon returned to return to 12th and 10th place respectively.

“I chose a strategy,” Palou said. “We did something wrong today.

“I thought it would give us the best option to win. The car was really fast (and) I wanted to be positive so that we wouldn’t be trapped in traffic.

“We knew it would be a dangerous strategy compared to the initiation of alternatives. It was kind of a feature. We could open up a big gap after that first yellow, but today it wasn’t enough.

“We are not happy (but) that Kiffin has won his first podium.”

Audward began to look to a good position to win and made an aggressive move on the car to get the track position. This included the force he overtook Turn 1.

Electric Power attempted to return the overtaking, but it was desolate from the corner and hit a wall. He managed to turn it around and return to the race, but when he returned to the pack on the 18th, he suffered damage to his race.

O’ward continued to pass his path to pass both Connor Daly and Kaifin Simpson for the second time.

He was stuck behind Veekay before piting on lap 58.

O’ward was able to overcut the Dutch driver with a large margin to not chase him down the pit lane and take over the interim lead.

Hertha was taking the lead again after the final pit stop, but in the end he had to pit himself, who dropped him sixth. Hertha, who is a favorite to enter the race today, was one of many drivers who saw his chances diminished by some attention.

Marcus, who was in third place, was forced to pit once more on the final few dozen laps with Kiffin Simpson in third place.

The AJ Voith driver went 15th and went through the grid with fresher tires. Landguard, Power and Palou found themselves in battle for position, and Marcus was squeezed narrowly avoiding the collision to return to the top 10 and back to ninth place.

Hertha fought hard to get behind Simpson and appeared to go to the final podium spot in two laps, but a slow warning brought Felix Rosenqvist, and Nolan Siegel protected Chip Ganassi’s driver position.

Rosenqvist lost his car from turn 8 and hit a wall. This caused Siegel to have no time to respond and stack up on the Swedish driver.