Indy 500: Full starting lineup after late driver change

With Stefan Wilson out and Graham Rahal in, here is the complete updated starting lineup for the 107th running of the Indy 500.

Graham Rahal tried to hold back tears when he found out he wouldn’t be making his 16th consecutive Indy 500 start in this year’s running of the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing”, having been bumped out by Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing teammate Jack Harvey in the closing seconds of Sunday afternoon’s Bump Day/Last Chance qualifying session.

But after suffering the same fate his father and team owner Bobby suffered 30 years ago at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Graham is set to compete in the race after all, replacing the injured Stefan Wilson behind the wheel of the No. 24 Chevrolet for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing/Cusick Motorsports.

Because of the late driver change, Rahal will not retain Wilson’s starting position of 25th place, which he had earned with a four-lap average speed of 231.648 miles per hour around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Speedway, Indiana oval in Saturday’s qualifying session.

Instead, he is set to start in 33rd (last) place, marking the first time since Ryan Briscoe replaced James Hinchcliffe in 2015 that a replacement driver has been added to the race and thus been sent to the outside of the 11th row of three.

As result, everybody who initially qualified from 26th through 33rd place is set to move up a spot, starting with Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport’s Devlin DeFrancesco. As Rahal said, Harvey can’t get rid of him that easily, with the now unofficial “teammates” set to start beside each other on the last row of the grid.

Here is the full updated starting lineup for the 107th running of the Indy 500.

NOTE: (R) means rookie.

Row 1

• 1st – Alex Palou – No. 10, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda – 234.217 mph
• 2nd – Rinus VeeKay – No. 21, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet – 234.211 mph
• 3rd – Felix Rosenqvist – No. 6, Arrow McLaren, Chevrolet – 234.114 mph

Row 2

• 4th – Santino Ferrucci – No. 14, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet – 233.661 mph
• 5th – Pato O’Ward – No. 5, Arrow McLaren, Chevrolet – 233.158 mph
• 6th – Scott Dixon – No. 9, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda – 233.151 mph

Row 3

• 7th – Alexander Rossi – No. 7, Arrow McLaren, Chevrolet – 233.11 mph
• 8th – Takuma Sato – No. 11, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda – 233.098 mph
• 9th – Tony Kanaan – No. 66, Arrow McLaren, Chevrolet – 233.076 mph

Row 4

• 10th – Marcus Ericsson – No. 8, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda – 232.889 mph
• 11th – Benjamin Pedersen (R) – No. 55, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet – 232.671 mph
• 12th – Will Power – No. 12, Team Penske, Chevrolet – 232.635 mph

Row 5

• 13th – Ed Carpenter – No. 33, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet – 232.689 mph
• 14th – Scott McLaughlin – No. 3, Team Penske, Chevrolet – 232.677 mph
• 15th – Kyle Kirkwood – No. 27, Andretti Autosport, Honda – 232.662 mph

Row 6

• 16th – Conor Daly – No. 20, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet – 232.433 mph
• 17th – Josef Newgarden – No. 2, Team Penske, Chevrolet – 232.402 mph
• 18th – Ryan Hunter-Reay – No. 23, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, Chevrolet – 232.133 mph

Row 7

• 19th – Romain Grosjean – No. 28, Andretti Autosport, Honda – 231.997 mph
• 20th – Helio Castroneves – No. 06, Meyer Shank Racing, Honda – 231.954 mph
• 21st – Colton Herta – No. 26, Andretti Autosport with Curb-Agajanian, Honda – 231.951 mph

Row 8

• 22nd – Simon Pagenaud – No. 60, Meyer Shank Racing, Honda – 231.878 mph
• 23rd – David Malukas – No. 18, Dale Coyne Racing with HMD Motorsports, Honda – 231.769 mph
• 24th – Marco Andretti – No. 98, Andretti Herta Autosport w/Marco and Curb-Agajanian – 231.682 mph

Row 9

• 25th – Devlin DeFrancesco – No. 29, Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport, Honda – 231.353 mph
• 26th – Agustin Canapino (R) – No. 78, Juncos Hollinger Racing, Chevrolet – 231.32 mph
• 27th – Callum Ilott – No. 77, Juncos Hollinger Racing, Chevrolet – 231.182 mph

Row 10

• 28th – R.C. Enerson (R) – No. 50, Abel Motorsports, Chevrolet – 231.129 mph
• 29th – Katherine Legge – No. 44 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda – 231.07 mph
• 30th – Christian Lundgaard – No. 45, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda – 229.649 mph

Row 11

• 31st – Sting Ray Robb (R) – No. 51, Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware Racing, Honda – 229.549 mph
• 32nd – Jack Harvey – No. 30, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda – 229.166 mph
• 33rd – Graham Rahal – No. 24, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing/Cusick Motorsports, Chevrolet – no speed

Rahal initially failed to qualify for the race behind the wheel of the No. 15 Honda with a four-lap average speed of 229.159 miles per hour.

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