2026 Sonsio Grand Prix
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6th round of the 2026 IndyCar season
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 Layout of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course | |||||
| Date | May 9, 2026 | ||||
| Official name | Sonsio Grand Prix | ||||
| Location | Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, Indiana | ||||
| Course | Permanent road course 2.439[1] mi / 3.925 km | ||||
| Distance | 85 laps 207.315 mi / 333.641 km | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver |  Álex Palou (Chip Ganassi Racing) | ||||
| Time | 1:10.2962 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver | Álex Palou (Chip Ganassi Racing) | ||||
| Time | 1:12.1221 (on lap of 85) | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First |  Christian Lundgaard (Arrow McLaren) | ||||
| Second |  David Malukas (Team Penske) | ||||
| Third | Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) | ||||
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The 2026 Sonsio Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2026 IndyCar season. The race was held on May 9, 2026, in Speedway, Indiana at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,[2] a 2.43-mile, 14-turn roval,[3] and ran for 90 laps. Christian Lundgaard won the race. David Malukas finished 2nd, and Graham Rahal finished 3rd.
Race background
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The Sonsio Grand Prix, commonly called the Grand Prix of Indianapolis, is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on its 14-turn infield road course. A 2.73-mile (4.39 km) paved track. First held in 2014, it is currently a points-paying race of the NTT IndyCar Series. The event is contested by "Indy cars", a formula of professional-level, single-seat, open cockpit, open-wheel, purpose-built race cars. The race is traditionally held before the most prestigious event of the IndyCar calendar, and one of the oldest and most important automobile races in the world, the Indianapolis 500.[4] Previously, the old road course layout was used for the Formula One United States Grand Prix.
Entry list
[edit]| Key | Meaning |
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| R | Rookie |
| W | Past winner |
- Note
- Past winners include all IndyCar events at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, not only the spring race
Practice
[edit]Practice 1
[edit]The first practice session was held on May 8, 2026, at 9:05 a.m. ET.
| Pos | No. | Driver | Team | Engine | Lap Time |
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| 1 | 10 | Álex Palou W |
Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 1:10.2696 |
| 2 | 27 | Kyle Kirkwood |
Andretti Global | Honda | 1:10.6474 |
| 3 | 28 |  Marcus Ericsson |
Andretti Global | Honda | 1:10.7580 |
| Practice 1 results | |||||
Practice 2
[edit]The second practice session was held on May 8, 2026, at 1:05 p.m. ET.
| Pos | No. | Driver | Team | Engine | Lap Time |
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| 1 | 10 | Álex Palou W |
Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 1:10.4507 |
| 2 | 27 | Kyle Kirkwood |
Andretti Global | Honda | 1:10.5574 |
| 3 | 45 |  Louis Foster |
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | Honda | 1:10.7182 |
| Practice 2 results | |||||
Qualifying
[edit]Qualifying was originally scheduled to be held on May 8, 2026, at 5:35 p.m. ET but was moved to May 9, 2026, at 10:45 a.m. ET due to bad weather conditions. The warmup session was cancelled to make way for qualifying.
- Notes
- Bold text indicates the fastest time.
Race
[edit]The race was held on May 9, 2026, at 4:55 p.m. ET.
Championship standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course". RacingCircuits. Retrieved March 29, 2026.
- ↑ "2026 Schedule" (PDF). IndyCar. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
- ↑ "Sonsio Grand Prix event schedule". IndyCar. Retrieved March 29, 2026.
- ↑ "USA Today Readers Name Indianapolis 500 As World's Best Motorsports Race In Poll". Indianapolis Motor Speedway. August 3, 2018.
