Toronto prefers Andretti Global, Chip Ganassi Racing

Alex Palou appears on Sunday in Ontario Honda dealers Indy Toronto with a lead of 129 points against Pato Oward when the NTT IndyCar series goes into the fourth and last street race of the 2025 season.

The duo shared the victory on the Iowa Speedway last weekend, and O'Ward achieved his first victory of the season in Sukup's synk on Saturday, while Palou won his seventh victory in the series on Sunday farm to end Sukup 275.

Although Palou dominates this season, he still has to win on the 1.786-mile street circle of Toronto. Every time in the opening round of the qualification, from the opening round of the qualification, from the 22nd, 15th and 18th centuries. But the three-time series champion drove through the field impressively to occupy the sixth, second and fourth place.

On the other hand, O'Ward has to struggle on street circles in 2025. Its average finish over the three previous street races is 10.33. In three appearances in Toronto, the Arrow McLaren driver took the 11th, eighth and 17th place.

The 90-round event on Sunday could be a race to reduce damage for O'Ward and its Chevrolet colleagues. His victory in Iowa was the first victory for Chevrolet this season, while Honda claims eleven of the 12 races, including all three on street circles and six of the nine podium places.

The street races of this season began with the Palou edge of Chip Ganassi Racing colleague Scott Dixon in the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, which was presented on March 2 by RP financing. June 1st.

Kirkwood leads all drivers with an average finish of 2.33 this season. A catastrophic Iowa weekend, including a crash in practice and another crash in races 1 – he took the 26th and 18th place in the races – cost him 67 points and dropped it to fourth place in the overall ranking. He pursues Palou for 180 points. On the bright side, Kirkwood became the second place of teammate Colton Herta (shown in photo) Last year in Toronto.

The story prefers CGR and Andretti Global this weekend. Her drivers swept the Toronto podium last year and summarized nine of the last 12 top three surfaces at the exhibition location. Winning in the 13th round of the 2025 season in Palou and Dixon will not be easy.

Dixon's seventh average degree on road courses this season takes third place behind Kirkwood and Christian Lundgaard (sixth average). Lundgaard, who is fifth overall in the overall ranking, won his only win of the Indycar series here in 2023 when he drove for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, and with three consecutive top-night surfaces in Toronto eyes a second arrow McLaren win in three races.

The first practice in Toronto is on Friday at 3:05 p.m. ET on FS2, Fox Sports app and Indycar Radio Network. The series returns to the second training session on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in front of the three-round knockout NTT P1 Award qualifying session.

The schedule of Sunday contains the advance before the race at 8:30 a.m. ET (FS1, FOX Sports App and Indycar Radio Network) before the 90-round race at FOX, FOX Sports app and Indycar Radio Network.

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