Alex Palou retains a healthy lead in the points standings. He has won eight of the 14 IndyCar races this season.

This is the first time in three weeks that the series has competed on a road course. Since Scott Dixon grabbed his first win of the season at Mid-Ohio, IndyCar had its back-to-back weekend at Iowa Speedway before racing on the streets of Toronto last Sunday.

Palou’s command of the sport is most evident in the season standings, where collecting the weekend’s maximum number of points, coupled with the fourth-place finish of Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward, swelled his lead to a whopping 121 points. Only three races remain.

IndyCar's 8:30am practice session at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca was cancelled after a thick marine layer of fog blanketed the circuit.

The 2025 IndyCar schedule includes 17 races, starting on the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla., in March, and finishing at Nashville Superspeedway on Aug. 31. Races are run on downtown streets, road courses and oval speedways.

The NTT IndyCar Series season rolls on as the fastest racing in the world heads north of the border to the streets of Toronto for the annual Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto race on Sunday.

Richmond would fill in a much-needed hole in the schedule, which currently doesn’t have a race in the mid-Atlantic or the Northeast. A return to Pocono, where INDYCAR has seen its share of injuries and loss, is unlikely. Watkins Glen (another NASCAR-owned track) doesn’t seem to be in the conversation.

The IndyCar Series is racing at WeatherTech at Raceway Laguna Seca. Here is the qualifying lineup, starting grid, start time, TV, streaming.