Bob Pockrass
Fox Motorsports Insider
The season of the 2025 Indycar collection will open this Sunday in St. Petersburg (12:00 et on Fox).
If final season is a sign, this might be one other yr of nice equality. No pilot recorded greater than three wins within the 17 races in 2024 and no driver recorded greater than seven finest finishes.
Here is a have a look at the ability charts (from the tenth to the first) who head to the yr. These might be up to date after every race weekend:
On the Verge: Marcus Armstrong, Christian Lunggaard, Alexander Rossi
10. Kyle Kirkwood
Kirkwood ended his finest within the rating (seventh) among the many drivers who didn’t win a race final yr. He managed a podium. The Andretti driver will want extra to remain on this checklist in 2025.
9. Nolan Seal
Siegel is managing his first full season for McLaren. He had a top-10 in his 10 departures for the crew final yr. But he’s younger and there are nice hopes for him in 2025.
8. Santino Ferrucci
Ferrucci completed his ninth within the standings and his return to Aj Foyt Racing for one more yr ought to solely imply that it improves. There can even be a drama, but additionally probably even higher.
7. Scott Dixon
Dixon completed sixth place within the standings was the worst since he completed the sixth season of 2016. The Ganassi group minimize from 5 three -to -three groups (and added two Indy NXT automobiles) and if Dixon studies his mojo the place The full accelerator and the mileage of the gasoline might be dominant will decide the place it ends in 2025.
Honda n. 9 by Scott Dixon for 2025.
6. Will Power
The energy was fourth within the rating in 2024 and placing the pilot Penske so low appears to be somewhat a disservice. More possible it can rise than down.
5. Pato O’Ward
O’ward had a victory and second place among the many final three races in 2024, but additionally 4 finishes of the fifteenth or worse among the many final six. The McLaren driver is the winner in workplace of St. Pete, though he has no reminiscence of a celebration as that victory was assigned to him a number of weeks later with the disqualification of Josef Newgarden (Push-to-pass violation).
4. Josef Newgarden
Newgarden gained the Indy 500 to make it consecutive triumphs within the largest sports activities race and is without doubt one of the stars of this sport. But the pilot of Penske additionally noticed potential good runs slipped away final yr.
3. Colton Herta
Herta ended up second within the standings final yr, a season by which she closed with a victory in Nashville. So do you might have a momentum coming this yr? Should. Many modifications, nevertheless, on Andretti Global.
2. Scott McLaughlin
McLaughlin gained a few ovals final yr and the highway route in Barber. The New Zealand is coming to Team Penske – and must proceed that progress.
1. Alex Palou
Palou-the three-time pattern, together with back-to-back in 2023 and 2024, is on the high of the ability charts. But it isn’t as secure as one would possibly suppose. The Ganassi chip racing driver had “solely” two wins final yr and nonetheless appears for his first oval victory.
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Bob Pockrass covers Nascar and Indycar for Fox Sports. He spent many years to cowl motor sports activities, together with over 30 Daytona 500s, with Espn intervals, Sporting News, Nascar Scene Magazine and The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow it on Twitter @Bobpockrass.
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