{"id":458175,"date":"2026-05-24T21:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/458175\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:29:09","slug":"felix-rosenqvist-wins-epic-in-closest-ever-indianapolis-500-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/458175\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Rosenqvist Wins Epic in Closest-Ever Indianapolis 500 Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Rosenqvist beat David Malukas in a drag race to the Yard of Bricks, earning his first Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge victory Sunday in the closest finish in the event&#8217;s 110 editions Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenqvist, who started fourth, drove his No. 60 SiriusXM Honda to victory by .0233 of a second over the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet of Malukas. The photo finish broke the previous record for the closest finish, .043 of a second in 1992 when Al Unser Jr. held off Scott Goodyear. Scott McLaughlin finished third in the No. 3 Pennzoil Team Penske Chevrolet.<\/p>\n<p>The breathtaking race featured a &#8220;500&#8221;-record 70 lead changes, breaking the record of 68 set in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for a complete report.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05-24-Finish-IC.jpg\" alt=\"2026 Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge finish\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felix Rosenqvist beat David Malukas in a drag race to the Yard of Bricks, earning his first Indianapolis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-458175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}