IndyCar Xpel Grand Prix at Road America in Elkhart Lake qualifying, starting lineup, time

Louis Foster won pole position for the IndyCar Series Xpel Grand Prix at Road America, touring the 14-turn, 4-mile course in the Wisconsin countryside in 1 minute, 44.5141 seconds. Alex Palou also starts in the front row for Sunday's 55-lap race.
Row 1
1, Louis Foster
2, Alex Palou
Row 2
3, Kyle Kirkwood
4, Scott McLaughlin
Row 3
5, Christian Lundgaard
6, Graham Rahal
Row 4
7, David Malukas
8, Will Power
Row 5
9, Callum Ilott
10, Josef Newgarden
Row 6
11, Pato O'Ward
12, Felix Rosenqvist
Row 7
13, Nolan Siegel
14, Marcus Ericsson
Row 8
15, Marcus Armstrong
16, Colton Herta
Row 9
17, Robert Shwartzman
18, Santino Ferrucci
Row 10
19, Devlin DeFrancesco
20, Christian Rasmussen
Row 11
21, Conor Daly
22, Rinus Veekay
Row 12
23, Kyffin Simpson
24, Alexander Rossi
Row 13
25, Scott Dixon
26, Sting Ray Robb
Row 14
27, Jacob Abel
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Alex Palou has won five races and leads by more than one race of max points. Kyle Kirkwood has won three races. However, Pato O'Ward leads Kirkwood for second place overall.
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Team Penske swept the podium: Will Power, followed by Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin.
From Nathan Brown, IndyStar
We're reaching the halfway point of a 17-race season, and Palou and Kirkwood have hogged all the checkered flags.
Is anyone besides Alex Palou or Kyle Kirkwood allowed to win a race? If so, who?
Fortunately ... or unfortunately ... depending your fandom, this feels like an 'Alex Palou rebound' weekend. In four years racing at Road America for Chip Ganassi Racing, he has two wins and took 4th last year. I don't expect him to settle for a bunch of top-5 finishes the rest of the way. Palou's going to win again, and coming off finishes of 25th and 8th since his Indy 500 victory, this feels like the weekend.
Who will have a surprising qualifying effort?
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing rookie Louis Foster will make a Fast 6 appearance, a much-needed boost for a team that has seen all three of its full-time cars finish 20th or worse in both races since the Indy 500. RLL has a strong history at Road America.
Team Penske swept the podium last year at Road America but had a horrible time in St. Louis last weekend? How will it fare this weekend?
The team will again fall short of its first win of the year, but we'll see a return to the podium for just the fourth time this season, delivered by Will Power, who won last year's race.
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(All times ET; all IndyCar sessions are on IndyCar Live, IndyCar Radio and Sirius XM Channel 218)
10 a.m.: IndyCar warmup, FS1
11 a.m.-noon: Indy NXT race, FS1
1:30 p.m.: IndyCar race, Fox
TV: Coverage begins at 1:30 p.m. ET, Sunday, June 22, 2025, on Fox. Green flag is scheduled for 1:47 p.m. Will Buxton is the play-by-play voice, with analysts James Hinchcliffe and Townsend Bell. Kevin Lee and Jack Harvey are the pit reporters.
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IndyCar Nation is on SiriusXM Channel 218, IndyCar Live and the IndyCar Radio Network (check affiliates for each race)
Sunday: Partly cloudy with a high in the low 90s.
Push-to-pass: Drivers have 200 total seconds, in increments of up to 20 seconds.
Tire allotment: Six sets primary (hard/black sidewall) and five sets alternate (soft/red sidewall) for the weekend. Rookie drivers are allowed one additional set of primary tires. Teams must use one set of primary and one set of new (sticker) alternate tires for at least two laps in the race.
The 2025 IndyCar Series schedule includes 17 races, all televised on Fox. (Times are ET; %-downtown street course, &-road course, *-oval)
March 2, St. Petersburg, Florida % (Winner: Alex Palou)
March 23, Thermal, California & (Winner: Alex Palou)
April 13, Long Beach, California % (Winner: Kyle Kirkwood)
May 4, Birmingham, Alabama & (Winner: Alex Palou)
May 10, Indianapolis & (Winner: Alex Palou)
May 25, Indianapolis 500 * (Winner: Alex Palou)
June 1, Detroit % (Winner: Kyle Kirkwood)
June 15, St. Louis * (Winner: Kyle Kirkwood)
June 22, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin &, 1:30 p.m.
July 6, Lexington, Ohio &, 1 p.m.
July 12, Newton, Iowa *, 5 p.m.
July 13, Newton, Iowa *, 1 p.m.
July 20, Toronto %, noon
July 27, Monterey, California &, 3 p.m.
Aug. 10, Portland &, 3 p.m.
Aug. 24, Milwaukee *, 2 p.m.
Aug. 31, Nashville *, 2:30 p.m.
(Team and drivers; *-Indianapolis 500 only)

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