It’s officially the week of the Indianapolis 500, one of the biggest motor sports events in the world, and six-time IndyCar Series champ Scott Dixon won the pole in record-breaking style at the end of last weekend’s two-day qualifying sessions.
If that sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Dixon won his fifth career and second consecutive Indy 500 pole Sunday, and to get there, he put up the fastest pole speed in race history at 234.046 miles per hour for a four-lap average, breaking a mark from 1996.
But he’s got steep competition from the other 32 drivers in the field.
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The 106th Indy 500 is Sunday with the green flag scheduled to fly at 12:45 p.m. ET on NBC (but the network’s coverage will begin at 11 a.m. ET).
This year’s race features eight previous Indy 500 winners: Dixon, Hélio Castroneves, Juan Pablo Montoya, Tony Kanaan, Alexander Rossi, Takuma Sato, Will Power and Simon Pagenaud. There are also seven rookies this time around: Jimmie Johnson, Romain Grosjean, Devlin DeFrancesco, Callum Ilott, Kyle Kirkwood, Christian Lundgaard and David Malukas.
Here’s a look at the starting grid for the 2022 Indy 500.
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