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St. Petersburg qualifying results for the Indycar Series<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, the NTT Indycar Series will take the green flag in Downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. Now, the field is rolling to the street course for a round of qualifying to set the starting lineup.<\/p>\n

View the Indycar TV schedule and lineup for St. Petersburg below.<\/p>\n

Indycar Menu
TV Schedule<\/a> | Prac<\/a> | Qual<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott McLaughlin will start from pole position. He turned a laptime at 1:00.542 during Saturday\u2019s qualifying session. <\/p>\n

St. Petersburg
TV Schedule<\/p>\n

The following includes only Indycar action:<\/p>\n

Sunday
March 1, 2026<\/p>\n

9:00am ET
FS1
Indycar Series
Warmup<\/p>\n

Noon ET
FOX
Indycar Series
Race<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg
Starting Lineup
March 1, 2026
Indycar Series<\/p>\n

Pos | Driver<\/p>\n

1. Scott McLaughlin
1:00.542<\/p>\n

2. Marcus Ericsson
1:00.562<\/p>\n

3. Dennis Hauger
1:00.574<\/p>\n

4. Alex Palou
1:00.684<\/p>\n

5. David Malukas
1:00.763<\/p>\n

6. Romain Grosjean
1:01.346<\/p>\n

Failed to advance in Fast 6<\/p>\n

7. Marcus Armstrong
1:00.782<\/p>\n

8. Pato O\u2019Ward
1:00.886<\/p>\n

9. Louis Foster
1:00.947<\/p>\n

10. Kyffin Simpson
1:00.981<\/p>\n

11. Felix Rosenqvist
1:00.984<\/p>\n

12. Christian Lundgaard
1:00.984<\/p>\n

Failed to advance out of Round 1<\/p>\n

13. Will Power
1:01.195<\/p>\n

14. Christian Rasmussen
1:01.183<\/p>\n

15. Kyle Kirkwood
1:01.230<\/p>\n

16. Scott Dixon
1:01.210<\/p>\n

17. Santino Ferrucci
1:01.263<\/p>\n

18. Graham Rahal
1:01.225<\/p>\n

19. Rinus VeeKay
1:01.371<\/p>\n

20. Sting Ray Robb
1:01.366<\/p>\n

21. Mick Schumacher
1:01.398<\/p>\n

22. Nolan Siegel
1:01.449<\/p>\n

23. Josef Newgarden
1:01.417<\/p>\n

24. Caio Collet
1:01.571<\/p>\n

25. Alexander Rossi
1:01.605<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg
Practice Results
(Session 2)
February 28, 2026<\/p>\n

Pos | Driver | Best Time<\/p>\n

1. Christian Lundgaard
1:01.6157<\/p>\n

2. Marcus Armstrong
1:01.6592<\/p>\n

3. Alex Palou
1:01.6947<\/p>\n

4. Kyle Kirkwood
1:01.7382<\/p>\n

5. Alexander Rossi
1:01.7653<\/p>\n

6. David Malukas
1:01.7894<\/p>\n

7. Scott McLaughlin
1:01.7921<\/p>\n

8. Pato O\u2019Ward
1:01.9473<\/p>\n

9. Sting Ray Robb
1:01.9905<\/p>\n

10. Rinus VeeKay
1:01.9918<\/p>\n

11. Marcus Ericsson
1:02.0270<\/p>\n

12. Nolan Siegel
1:02.0533<\/p>\n

13. Dennis Hauger
1:02.0601<\/p>\n

14. Scott Dixon
1:02.1494<\/p>\n

15. Kyffin Simpson
1:02.1916<\/p>\n

16. Graham Rahal
1:02.2131<\/p>\n

17. Romain Grosjean
1:02.2458<\/p>\n

18. Santino Ferrucci
1:02.3361<\/p>\n

19. Felix Rosenqvist
1:02.3815<\/p>\n

20. Josef Newgarden
1:02.4624<\/p>\n

21. Louis Foster
1:02.6497<\/p>\n

22. Mick Schumacher
1:02.9071<\/p>\n

23. Caio Collet
1:03.4617<\/p>\n

24. Christian Rasmussen
1:03.5018<\/p>\n

Links<\/p>\n

Grand Prix of St Petersburg<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Indycar<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg qualifying results for the Indycar Series Tomorrow, the NTT Indycar Series will take the green flag…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[28,48975,16090,16091,39427,47541,79532,80446,202,204,203,199,5723,201,200,82258,81808],"class_list":{"0":"post-173297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-indy","10":"tag-indycar","11":"tag-indycar-series","12":"tag-lineup","13":"tag-qualifying","14":"tag-scott-mclaughlin","15":"tag-st-petersburg-fl","16":"tag-st-pete","17":"tag-st-pete-headlines","18":"tag-st-pete-news","19":"tag-st-petersburg","20":"tag-st-petersburg-florida","21":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","22":"tag-st-petersburg-news","23":"tag-starting-grid","24":"tag-starting-lineup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173297","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=173297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}