IndyCar traveled clear across the country since last weekend’s race, more than 2700 miles in total, in order to contest a round at the famous Laguna Seca.
As he has done two of the three previous years, Alex Palou dominated Sunday’s main event and cruised to his eighth victory of the 2025 season.
Christian Lundgaard finished second after making multiple impressive passes on track, with Colton Herta crossing the line third.
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Multiple accidents interrupted the early portion of the race, including a dust-up between Kyffin Simpson and Felix Rosenqvist that sent both into the tires at Turn 6. Rosenqvist continued, but Simpson’s day was done on the first lap.
A late incident when Ericsson spun on the run up to the Corkscrew drew criticism from Race Control as the Swede sat on track in a very dangerous area. Finally, after a full lap with cars flying past, did the full yellow come out.
After a tremendous month of July that saw drivers contest five races in four weekends, the paddock finally has one week off before heading to Portland on August 10.
| # | Driver | Time / Gap | Laps Led | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alex Palou | 2:05:00.1159 | 84 | 54 |
| 2 | Christian Lundgaard | 3.7965 | — | 40 |
| 3 | Colton Herta | 4.6340 | — | 35 |
| 4 | Pato O’Ward | 6.6484 | — | 32 |
| 5 | Scott Dixon | 7.3422 | — | 30 |
| 6 | Callum Ilott | 8.9243 | — | 28 |
| 7 | Will Power | 11.5298 | — | 26 |
| 8 | Marcus Armstrong | 13.0055 | — | 24 |
| 9 | Christian Rasmussen | 14.0988 | — | 22 |
| 10 | Scott McLaughlin | 14.5960 | — | 20 |
| 11 | Josef Newgarden | 15.2224 | — | 19 |
| 12 | Graham Rahal | 16.5256 | — | 18 |
| 13 | David Malukas | 16.9614 | — | 17 |
| 14 | Conor Daly | 17.8336 | — | 16 |
| 15 | Alexander Rossi | 1.1194 | — | 15 |
| 16 | Kyle Kirkwood | 19.7294 | — | 14 |
| 17 | Louis Foster | 21.5898 | — | 13 |
| 18 | Nolan Siegel | 29.3009 | 11 | 13 |
| 19 | Sting Ray Robb | 30.4964 | — | 11 |
| 20 | Devlin DeFrancesco | 1 lap | — | 10 |
| 21 | Robert Shwartzman | 1 lap | — | 9 |
| 22 | Santino Ferrucci | 1 lap | — | 8 |
| 23 | Rinus VeeKay | 3 laps | — | 7 |
| 24 | Felix Rosenqvist | 4 laps | — | 6 |
| 25 | Marcus Ericsson | 17 laps | — | 5 |
| 26 | Jacob Abel | 85 laps | — | 5 |
| 27 | Kyffin Simpson | 95 laps | — | 5 |
… departing Laguna Seca, Palou’s now eliminated all drivers, through 3rd place in the 2025 championship. Palou now needs just 50 points to clinch, and can do so with an average, 14th place finish, over the remaining three races –