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Kyle Larson has crashed out of the Indianapolis 500, ending his hopes of completing the full Memorial Day Weekend “Double.”
On a restart, Larson was racing in a pack when he suddenly lost control of his car on the bottom lane and spun out — collecting two other cars en route to hitting the wall.
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Larson only completed 92 laps — eight short of halfway — when his crash occurred. He will now head to Charlotte to compete in NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600, the longest race of the season.
Larson’s incident is just one of an outbreak of yellow flags at will Indy 500 so far.
The drama began on the pace laps when Scott McLaughlin, one of the pre-race favorites, inexplicably crashed while trying to warm up his tires at the end of the frontstretch. He lost control of his Team Penske Chevrolet and crashed into the pit wall, knocking his car out of the race in stunning fashion.
“By far the worst moment of my life,” McLaughlin told reporters afterward. “This is everything to us and I didn’t even see the green flag. Heart is broken in a million pieces right now.”
Scott McLaughlin reacts after crashing out of the Indianapolis 500 during warmup laps. (Photo: James Gilbert / Getty Images)
Scott Dixon also had brake problems before the start of the race and eventually had to pit for repairs, which cost him three laps on the track — immediately taking the six-time IndyCar champion out of contention.
Then, when the race finally had its first green-flag lap, Marco Andretti — in a one-off return to IndyCar — got hit while racing five-wide and crashed out of the 500 after completing just nine laps (none under green).
“Whoever was next to me definitely crowded me and I ran out of room,” Andretti said of Jack Harvey.
Alexander Rossi, who won the 100th running of the 500 in 2016, had an early end to his day as a fluid leak led to his car erupting in flames on Lap 73. He became the third retirement of the race after McLaughlin and Andretti.
“It’s so disappointing,” Rossi said. “Another opportunity gone. But that’s the way it goes.”
Another look at the pit road fire for an extremely frustrated Alexander Rossi.#Indy500 on FOX pic.twitter.com/bLSZ2YAJsC
— INDYCAR on FOX (@IndyCarOnFOX) May 25, 2025
It wasn’t much longer until Indy woes ate up another car: Rinus VeeKay, who had qualified into the field as the last car to make the cut, suddenly spun out on pit road and hit the inside wall on Lap 80.
VeeKay wasn’t the only driver to have trouble on the pit lane. Rookie Robert Shwartzman, who won the pole in a stirring upset, came in too hot and hit several of his crew members. That resulted in damage to his car, and he was unable to continue the race. One crewman was taken away by stretcher after complaining of foot pain.
Robert Shwartzman joins @JamieLittleTV to discuss what happened when he hit the wall on his pit stop. pic.twitter.com/LTvZeiosJS
— INDYCAR on FOX (@IndyCarOnFOX) May 25, 2025
Even before the drivers took the green flag, they had to deal with a green radar as sprinkles and then a light rain fell in Indianapolis for the first time in more than a week. That made for an uncomfortable pre-race for Larson, who only had a 45-minute buffer for his travels to Charlotte and saw it quickly washed away; the early cautions didn’t help, either.
Larson fell from 19th to 31st on the first pit stop of the day when he stalled his car in the pits. It recalled another mistake on pit road last year, when his potential top-10 finish was ruined by a pit road speeding penalty.
(Top Photo of Kyle Larson: Mark J. Rebilas / Imagn Images)
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