{"id":173155,"date":"2026-02-28T21:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/173155\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:44:08","slug":"st-petersburg-qualifying-updates-full-indycar-starting-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/173155\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg qualifying updates, full IndyCar starting lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"82\">For the fifth year in a row and the 14th time in the past 16 years, a new NTT IndyCar Series season is scheduled to get underway with the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"85\">This 100-lap race around the 14-turn, 1.8-mile (2.897-kilometer) temporary street circuit is set to kick off an 18-race season, something IndyCar hasn&#8217;t seen since 2014.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"88\">While qualifying on tight city streets is important, no driver has won in St. Petersburg from the front row since Scott McLaughlin did so in 2022.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8b\">Alex Palou won the 2025 opener from eighth on the grid, matching the lowest starting position for a St. Petersburgh winner since 2018, and he <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondtheflag.com\/stop-moving-goalposts-alex-palou-indycar-goat-01k2fbmcyhf3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">never relinquished the IndyCar championship lead all year long<\/a> en route to winning his fourth title and third in a row.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8e\">Who will be on pole this Sunday afternoon? Follow along with our live qualifying updates from the streets of St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg IndyCar qualifying: Round 1, Group 1 resultsSt. Petersburg IndyCar qualifying: Round 1, Group 2 resultsSt. Petersburg IndyCar qualifying: Round 2 resultsSt. Petersburg IndyCar qualifying: Firestone Fast Six resultsFull St. Petersburg IndyCar starting lineup<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8z\">Fox is set to broadcast the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg live from the streets of St. Petersburg beginning at 12:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 1. Start a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/welcome?irad=343747&amp;irmp=1412332&amp;subId1=FS-2024streaming\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free trial of FuboTV now<\/a> and don\u2019t miss any of the action!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the fifth year in a row and the 14th time in the past 16 years, a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-173155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}