Alex Palou – right – produced Honda’s fourth consecutive Indianapolis 500 pole yesterday in a qualifying contest that resulted in the fastest field at 232 mph, as well as one of the closest front rows in Brickyard history.* Palou drove the #10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda to a four-lap record speed of 234.217 mph, surpassing the mark set last year by Scott Dixon in a Honda, to claim the second-fastest qualifying run in Indianapolis 500 history. Dixon will start sixth this year.

Palou’s speed edged Rinus VeeKay by just 0.006 mph over the four-lap, ten-mile qualifying run. It is Honda’s fourth consecutive 500 pole, a streak started by Marco Andretti in 2020 and continued by Dixon in 2021-22. VeeKay, of Ed Carpenter Racing, has been the best qualifying Chevrolet for the Indianapolis 500 for four years in a row. VeeKay will be joined on the front row by Felix Rosenqvist at Arrow McLaren, also Chevy powered, for his first front row start at the 500. The 33-car field is almost evenly divided between Honda (16) and Chevy (17) engines.