He's done it. Alex Palou wins the 2025 Indy 500. He fends off past Indy 500 champion Marcus Ericsson to capture his first-ever win on an oval. Palou has won five of six races this season. One lap to go. Alex Palou in the lead. Can he hold on and fend off Marcus Ericsson to win the Indy 500?

Alex Palou made a dramatic late pass around Marcus Ericsson and held him off on the final handful of laps to win the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday.

Ericsson finished second, followed by David Malukas, Pato O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist as the race ended under a caution flag for a crash involving Nolan Siegel. Kyle Larson finished 27th in his bid to race the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.

Ericsson landed a breakthrough Indy 500 victory in 2022 that allowed him to escape the ‘pay driver’ moniker he not only shouldered throughout his Formula 1 career, but several seasons into his shift to IndyCar. But Sunday’s runner-up 500 finish, his second in three years, will feel like the race the Swede gave away.

IndyCar superstar driver Alex Palou denied he was going to drive over to Formula 1 after he rode to victory at the Indianapolis 500 over the weekend.

Palou and Chip Ganassi Racing continued their winning ways in 2025 by racing to victory in the Indy 500, marking Palou’s first career oval win. The remarkable Palou became the first driver since A.J. Foyt in 1979 to win five of the season’s first six races, and he has claimed three of the last four championships, including two in a row.

There’s a long list of driving greats who have passed through Chip Ganassi Racing over its 35 years in existence.

Celebrate Alex Palou's thrilling first Indianapolis 500 victory with a commemorative page print from the IndyStar.

Alex Palou's win of his first Indy 500 came from a lesson he learned a few years earlier about the value of lapped cars in front of the leader.