{"id":174332,"date":"2026-03-01T22:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174332\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:56:15","slug":"full-race-results-for-the-2026-indycar-grand-prix-of-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174332\/","title":{"rendered":"Full race results for the 2026 IndyCar Grand Prix of St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time and defending IndyCar champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/alex-palou\/21151\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alex Palou<\/a> now has 20 career wins, taking a dominant victory in the 2026 season-opener on the streets of St. Petersburg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After securing the lead through a cycle of pit stops, he drove away from the field, winning by almost 13 seconds and leading 59 of 100 laps.<\/p>\n<p>The battle for second was spirited as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/kyle-kirkwood\/290499\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kyle Kirkwood<\/a> tried and failed to hold on against a charging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/scott-mclaughlin\/18844\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Scott McLaughlin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/christian-lundgaard\/444724\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Christian Lundgaard<\/a>. Both drivers made their way through with six laps to go, with McLaughlin finishing second and Lundgaard right behind him in third.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for the rookies, Dennis Hauger led the way with a tenth-place finish, while Caio Collet was 17th, and Mick Schumacher finished last after being collected in a Lap 1 crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>2026 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Race Results<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time and defending IndyCar champion Alex Palou now has 20 career wins, taking a dominant victory in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[79537,68942,82648,16090,202,204,203,199,201,200,68919],"class_list":{"0":"post-174332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-alex-palou","9":"tag-chip-ganassi-racing","10":"tag-full-race-results-for-the-2026-indycar-grand-prix-of-st-petersburg","11":"tag-indycar","12":"tag-st-pete","13":"tag-st-pete-headlines","14":"tag-st-pete-news","15":"tag-st-petersburg","16":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","17":"tag-st-petersburg-news","18":"tag-st-petersburg-street-course"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174332","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=174332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}