LIVE: Inaugural IndyCar Grand Prix of Arlington Live Commentary and Race Updates

Kyle Kirkwood is now the championship leader as well!

***FULL RACE RESULTS***

cla	#	driver	team	laps	time	gap	int	mph	pits	retirement	pts
1	27	Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Global	70					3
2	10	Alex Palou	Chip Ganassi Racing	70	0.3140				3
3	26	Will Power	Andretti Global	70	3.5855				2
4	28	Marcus Ericsson	Andretti Global	70	4.9128				3
5	5	Patricio O'Ward	Arrow McLaren	70	5.9336				3
6	60	Felix Rosenqvist	Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	70	6.6046				3
7	12	David Malukas	Team Penske	70	7.4478				3
8	7	Christian Lundgaard	Arrow McLaren	70	8.7501				3
9	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	70	9.8315				4
10	20	Alexander Rossi	Ed Carpenter Racing	70	10.7076				3
11	66	Marcus Armstrong	Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	70	12.4888				4
12	3	Scott McLaughlin	Team Penske	70	13.8893				3
13	4	Caio Collet	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	70	14.7435				3
14	45	Louis Foster	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	70	16.2034				3
15	76	Rinus VeeKay	Juncos Hollinger Racing	70	16.8679				3
16	2	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	70	18.7540				3
17	19	Dennis Hauger	Dale Coyne Racing	70	21.2934				3
18	14	Santino Ferrucci	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	70	22.2893				3
19	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	70	24.7337				4
20	8	Kyffin Simpson	Chip Ganassi Racing	70	27.6294				6
21	77	Ray Robb Sting	Juncos Hollinger Racing	69	1 lap				3
22	47	Mick Schumacher	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	69	3.1241				5
23	18	Romain Grosjean	Dale Coyne Racing	68	1 lap				3	Collision
24	6	Nolan Siegel	Arrow McLaren	68	1 lap				4	Collision
25	21	Christian Rasmussen	Ed Carpenter Racing	66	3 laps				3	Accident

ONE-LAP SHOOTOUT INCOMING

Are we going to restart this race? Very long laps so they have time to get Rasmussen out of there

Rossi-Armstrong-Collet-McLaughlin all on top of each other in the battle for 10th! 

Five laps remain. Kirkwood is finally catching the back of the field, but it took 65 green flag laps to get there.

Kirkwood is just dropping fast laps left and right as he extends the advantage over Palou to around five seconds.

And took a look at Collet! He's leading the rookie class in P12 and is running just behind this battle for tenth place.

Battle for P10 is looking lively with McLaughlin harassing Rossi. 

And still all 25 starters in the race! NO full-course cautions so far in this one, and Mick Schumacher is the only driver not on the lead lap. 

Don't expect much traffic being such a monstrous street circuit at 2.73 miles in length.

Power still hanging onto P3, three seconds clear of Ericsson. 

10 laps to go: Kirkwood still leads, 2.8s clear of Palou. 

Our eyes are shifting to the battle for the final spot on the podium. Will Power has it, and there's about four seconds between him and teammate Marcus Ericsson. The tire advantage for Ericsson is minimal, just two laps fresher than Power.

That could be the race right there. Driver #27 is pulling away now 

Kyle Kirkwood, Andretti Global w/ Curb-Agajanian

Photo by: Perry Nelson / Lumen via Getty Images

Kirkwood with a huge dive on Palou, taking the lead with 15 laps to go! Super aggressive, and brilliantly executed. 

Andretti cars running 2nd, 3rd, and 4th...they do not want Palou spoiling their party.

Kirkwood is all over the gearbox of Palou, and still 16 laps to go.

Kirkwood had three wins last year, two on street courses. He's started off 2026 with a P4 at St. Pete and P2 at Phoenix...he can absolutely do this.

Just one second between Kirkwood and Palou now!

Okay, so we have 20 laps to go. The state of play:

Palou leads Kirkwood by just two seconds, and Power is four seconds behind in P3.

Just saw a replay of how Malukas passed Power...the #26 ran wide and almost stuffed it in the barriers. Lucky escape

Kirkwood exits the pits just in front of Malukas. Power behind them.

22 laps remain: Kirkwood is now three seconds behind Palou.

He's getting closer...

Power blends behind O'Ward in P5.

Palou leads Kirkwood by four seconds.