{"id":443415,"date":"2026-05-24T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/443415\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:54:08","slug":"felix-rosenqvist-wins-indy-500-as-marcus-armstrong-pipped-on-final-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/443415\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Rosenqvist wins Indy 500 as Marcus Armstrong pipped on final lap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Scott McLaughlin, driver of the #3 Team Penske Chevrolet leads a pack of cars during the  110th Running of the Indianapolis 500. Photo \/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nzme.co.nz\/advertise\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kiwi Marcus Armstrong was denied victory in the 110th Indianapolis 500 after leading under caution with one lap to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sweden\u2019s Felix Rosenqvist won the last-lap shootout to capture the victory by 0.0233 of a second, the closest finish in race history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Rosenqvist trailed into the final straightaway but surged<br \/>\n         past American David Malukas on the outside just before the finish line to win after 200 laps at the famed 4km Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Scott McLaughlin finished third with Armstrong in fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott McLaughlin, driver of the #3 Team Penske Chevrolet leads a pack of cars during the 110th Running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[226442,7615,74,188618,806,38914,15159,37774,5904,9221,224995,194,52122,13620,98844,111,139,69,90,226441,226440,213,8238,8982,6202,102],"class_list":["post-443415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-110th","tag-7615","tag-after","tag-armstrong","tag-as","tag-caution","tag-denied","tag-felix","tag-final","tag-indianapolis","tag-indy","tag-kiwi","tag-lap","tag-leading","tag-marcus","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-pipped","tag-rosenqvist","tag-sports","tag-under","tag-victory","tag-wins","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}