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Official race results: 2026 IndyCar Grand Prix of Arlington

Kirkwood won the race and moved into the championship lead after a stellar showing in Texas

The inaugural Grand Prix of Arlington delivered a surprisingly clean, but exciting battle for 70 laps, ending with a showdown between Alex Palou and Kyle Kirkwood.

Kirkwood passed Palou via an aggressive dive with 15 laps to go, and never looked back. Palou finished second, and Will Power earned his first podium finish with Andretti in third. Marcus Ericsson and Pato O'Ward filled out the rest of the top five.

For Kirkwood, this is his sixth career win and his fourth on a street course. Caio Collet led the way among the rookie class, earning a career-best finish of 12th, improving on his previous high result of 17th.

The race didn't feature a single full-course yellow until the final four laps of the race, and while it did get restarted for a one-lap shootout, the race ultimately ended under caution due to a crash in the back.

NOTE: Felix Rosenqvist originally finished sixth, but was deemed to have jumped the final restart. As a result, he was dropped all the way down to 20th, moving most of the field up a position.

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2026 Grand Prix of Arlington race results

cla	#	driver	team	laps	time	pits	retirement
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	12	David Malukas	Team Penske	70	7.4478	3
7	7	Christian Lundgaard	Arrow McLaren	70	8.7501	3
8	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	70	9.8315	4
9	20	Alexander Rossi	Ed Carpenter Racing	70	10.7076	3
10	66	Marcus Armstrong	Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	70	12.4888	4
11	3	Scott McLaughlin	Team Penske	70	13.8893	3
12	4	Caio Collet (R)	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	70	14.7435	3
13	45	Louis Foster	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	70	16.2034	3
14	76	Rinus VeeKay	Juncos Hollinger Racing	70	16.8679	3
15	2	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	70	18.7540	3
16	19	Dennis Hauger (R)	Dale Coyne Racing	70	21.2934	3
17	14	Santino Ferrucci	A.J. Foyt Enterprises	70	22.2893	3
18	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	70	24.7337	4
19	8	Kyffin Simpson	Chip Ganassi Racing	70	27.6294	6
20	60	Felix Rosenqvist [PENALTY]	Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	69	1 lap	3
21	77	Sting Ray Robb	Juncos Hollinger Racing	69	1 lap	3
22	47	Mick Schumacher (R)	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	69	1 lap	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