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# Indianapolis 500 2025 starting grid after Penske penalties
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/indycar/indianapolis-500-2025-starting-grid-indy-500/
- Published: 2025-05-19T15:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-19T17:28:41.000Z
- Description: The 109th edition of the legendary Indianapolis 500 race will take place on May 25, 2025
- Author: The Race Team
- Tags: IndyCar

The 109th edition of the legendary Indianapolis 500 race will take place on May 25, 2025.

Rookie Robert Shwartzman and his newcomer team Prema [stunned the field](https://www.the-race.com/indycar/shock-pole-for-prema-and-rookie-shwartzman-on-indy-500-debut/) to take pole position - but what does the rest of the starting order look like, especially after [the shock Penske penalties?](https://www.the-race.com/indycar/two-penskes-thrown-to-back-of-indy-500-grid-for-clear-violation/)

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## Full starting order

1 Robert Shwartzman (Prema)  
2 Takuma Sato (RLL)  
3 Pato O’Ward (McLaren)  
4 Scott Dixon (Ganassi)  
5 Felix Rosenqvist (Meyer Shank)  
6 Alex Palou (Ganassi)  
7 David Malukas (Foyt)  
8 Christian Lundgaard  
9 Marcus Ericsson (Andretti)  
10 Scott McLaughlin (Penske)  
11 Conor Daly (Juncos Hollinger)  
12 Alexander Rossi (ECR)  
13 Kyffin Simpson (Ganassi)  
14 Ed Carpenter (ECR)  
15 Santino Ferrucci (Foyt)  
16 Devlin DeFrancesco  
17 Sting Ray Robb (Juncos Hollinger)  
18 Christian Rasmussen (ECR)  
19 Kyle Larson (McLaren)  
20 Louis Foster (RLL)  
21 Callum Ilott (Prema)  
22 Helio Castroneves (Meyer Shank)  
23 Kyle Kirkwood (Andretti)  
24 Nolan Siegel (McLaren)  
25 Ryan Hunter-Reay (DRR-Cusick)  
26 Jack Harvey (DRR-Cusick)  
27 Colton Herta (Andretti)  
28 Graham Rahal (RLL)  
29 Marco Andretti (Andretti)  
30 Marcus Armstrong (Meyer Shank)  
31 Rinus VeeKay (Coyne)  
32 Josef Newgarden (Penske)  
33 Will Power (Penske)  
Bumped: Jacob Abel (Coyne)

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## Row-by-row

1 Shwartzman 2 Sato 3 O’Ward  
4 Dixon 5 Rosenqvist 6 Palou  
7 Malukas 8 Lundgaard 9 Ericsson  
10 McLaughlin 11 Daly 12 Rossi  
13 Simpson 14 Carpenter 15 Ferrucci  
16 DeFrancesco 17 Robb 18 Rasmussen  
19 Larson 20 Foster 21 Ilott  
22 Castroneves 23 Kirkwood 24 Siegel  
25 Hunter-Reay 26 Harvey 27 Herta  
28 Rahal 29 Andretti 30 Armstrong  
31 VeeKay 32 Newgarden 33 Power