Indycar Power Rankings: Alex Palou is on top of the preseason list, but how long?

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2025 Indycar series The season opens this Sunday on St. Petersburg (12:00 et on fox).

If last season is any indicator, this will be another year of great parity. No driver had more than three wins compared to 17 races in 2024, and the driver had not recorded more than seven top three endings.

Here is a ranking of strength (from 10 to 1) moving in the year. They will update after each weekend in the race:

On the edge: Marcus Armstrong, Christian Lundgaard, Alexander Rossi

10. Kyle Kirkwood

Kirkwood ended the most on the ladder (seventh) among drivers who did not win the race last year. He managed one podium. Andretti the driver will need more to stay on this list of 2025.

9. Nolan Siegel

Siegel takes his first full season for McLaren. Last year he had one Top 10 in his 10 starts for the team. But he is young and there are great hopes for him in 2025.

8. Santino Ferrucci

Ferrucci finished ninth in the rankings, and returning to Aj Foyt race another year should only mean to improve. There will be a drama, but also potentially even better endings.

7. Scott Dixon

Dixonov finished sixth on the rankings has been the worst since he finished the season six 2016. The Ganassi organization has decreased with five teams to three (and added two Indy Nxt cars) and whether Dixon will get its Mojo back to a place where it can be dominant in complete gas, as well as fuel mileage, will determine where it ends in 2025.

Scott Dixon’s no. 9 Honda for 2025. –>

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6. willpower

The strength was fourth on the 2024 ladder, and the placement of the driver of the pen of this low seems to be a bit harmful. Are more likely to go up than down.

5. Pato O’ward

O’Ward had a win and a runner -up ending among the last three races in 2024, but also four endings 15. or worse among the Final Six. McLaren driver is the defender of St. Pete, although he has no memory of the celebration because he was given that victory a few weeks later with Josef Newgarten’s disqualification (a violation of a push-to-per-per-pruned).

4. Josef NewGarden

Newgarden won the Indy 500 to make triumphs to return to the biggest sports race and is one of the stars of sports. But the driver of the Penska also saw that potential good races had been decaying last year.

3. Colton Herta

Herta finished second in the rankings last year, in a season in which he limited his victory in Nashville. Well, is there any swing this year? You should. Many changes, however, to Andretti Global.

2. Scott McLaughlin

McLaughlin won a few ovals last year as well as on the barber track. The New Zealander enters his own Penne – and has to continue that progress.

1. Alex Palou

Palou – Triple champion, including back in 2023 and 2024. – top ranking of strength. But it’s not as stable as you might think. Chip Ganassi runner driver had “only” two victories last year and still seeks his first oval victory.

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Bob Pockras covers Nascar and Indycar for Fox Sports. For decades, he spent covering motor sports, including more than 30 Dayton 500s, with strikes in ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scenes Magazine and News-Journal (Dayton Beach). Follow it on Twitter @Bobpockrass.

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