Kyle Kirkwood

LEBANON, Tenn. -- Kyle Kirkwood earned a much needed point to close the gap to Alex Palou by winning the pole for Sunday's Music City Grand Prix at Nashville Superspeedway.

The 34-year-old Rosenqvist from Värnamo, Sweden, clocked in a single-qualifying pole-winning lap at 104.017 mph in 1:07.4635 for his seventh NTT IndyCar career pole and first since 2024.

Kyle Kirkwood overtook Alex Palou with 16 laps to go to win on the streets of Arlington, Texas.

The two-time Indy 500 & IndyCar champion from Nashville, Tennessee, led eight of 250 laps and went from 10th to first through a 32-lap dash to achieve his first IndyCar victory of 2026 at Phoenix.

Kyle Kirkwood pulled off a SportsCenter Top-10 overtake for the win with a damaged front wing.

Two Andretti Global teams and one PREMA Racing team were demoted to the rear of the final running order from this year's Indy 500, fined $100,000 for each penalized entry and had team/competition managers levied a one-race suspension for inquiries noted on each entry during the post-race inspection procedure.

There exists a joke in the NASCAR world that if you want to end a drought, bring NASCAR to town. Except in this case, INDYCAR brings the rain.

An overview of the 2025 NTT IndyCar Series grid (full-time and part-time for the 109th running of the Indy 500) entering the 2025 season.

The 24-year-old Kirkwood from Jupiter, Florida, has inked a multi-year contract extension to remain at Andretti Global amid a breakout 2023 season highlighted with his first two IndyCar career victories.

The 21-year-old Lundgaard from Hedensted, Denmark, became the first Danish competitor to win an IndyCar Series event after capping off a dominant run from pole position at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Canada.