{"id":245023,"date":"2026-05-24T19:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/felix-rosenqvist-wins-indianapolis-500-over-david-malukas-in-races-closest-ever-finish\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:50:02","slug":"felix-rosenqvist-wins-indianapolis-500-over-david-malukas-in-races-closest-ever-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/felix-rosenqvist-wins-indianapolis-500-over-david-malukas-in-races-closest-ever-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Rosenqvist wins Indianapolis 500 over David Malukas in race&#8217;s closest-ever finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The 110th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/indycar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">edition<\/a> of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing had one of its greatest finishes ever on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a one-lap shootout to decide the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500, Felix Rosenqvist beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/indycar\/players\/david_malukas\/912911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Malukas<\/a> in a thrilling photo finish, earning just the second win of his NTT IndyCar Series career and the second win in team history for Meyer Shank Racing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rosenqvist spent much of the final lap battling with his MSR teammate, Marcus Armstrong, for second, but cleared Armstrong in Turn 4. He got enough of a run on Malukas to beat him to the line by only 0.02 seconds, the closest margin of victory in Indy 500 history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The race for the win was a one-lap shootout after the caution came out with only four laps to go. Before the previous yellow with eight laps remaining, Rosenqvist led Pato O&#8217;Ward as the two tried to save enough fuel to make it to the end of the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/indycar\/articles\/felix_rosenqvist_wins_indianapolis_500_over_david_malukas_in_races_closest_ever_finish\/s1_13132_43879332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 110th edition of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing had one of its greatest finishes ever on Sunday.\u00a0 In a one-lap shootout to decide the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500, Felix Rosenqvist beat David Malukas in a thrilling photo finish, earning just the second win of his NTT IndyCar Series career and the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}