Indianapolis, IN
Several rain chances moving in to end the week
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A few strong storms are possible late Thursday
This morning:
Conditions are a bit warmer and more muggy this morning as an approaching system moves in from the west. We’re also tracking a complex of showers and thunderstorms lining up along the Mississippi River here early this morning.
Thursday:
Look for showers to move into Indiana by the early to mid-morning hours. Rain will most likely be fairly light and mostly confined to western Indiana in terms of measurable rainfall. As we head into the late morning hours and early afternoon, look for mostly cloudy and muggy conditions, but we should remain relatively dry. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will likely start to roll in by the latter portions of the afternoon.
High temperatures will top out into the low to mid 80s, with dew point temperatures into the mid 60s, making it feel a bit more uncomfortable this afternoon.
Thursday night:
Another round of showers and thunderstorms will move in for the evening and overnight hours. This complex is expected to be a bit stronger, posing the risk of some severe storms with damaging winds as the primary concern.
There’s also the chance that we could see some heavy rain, although it appears the heaviest rainfall access will likely be southwest of Indiana into southern Illinois.
Overnight lows will fall to the upper 60s to around 70°.
Friday:
Scattered showers and thunderstorms look to continue during pre-day break hours on Friday. Again, a few strong storms could be possible, with damaging winds being the primary concern, along with some heavy rainfall. Precipitation chances will decrease as we head later on into the afternoon, with only spotty showers and thunderstorms expected for the second half of our Friday.
Highs top out into the middle 80s.
This weekend:
A second front will move through late Friday night into early Saturday morning, bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms to the area before daybreak Saturday. Much of our Saturday daytime hours should be dry, with partly to mostly cloudy skies. There could be an isolated shower thunderstorm developing with the heating of the afternoon. Highs topped out in the lower 80s.
Sunday should be relatively quiet but still muggy, with highs into the lower 80s through the afternoon.
7 day forecast:
Quiet weather as we head into the new work week with highs into the low to mid 80s on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It does appear that the humidity will drop significantly for the first half of the work week as well.
The 8- to 14-day outlook, which takes us to the end of the month, calls for a good chance for below-average temperatures to continue.
Indianapolis, IN
Conor Daly, Alex Palou become 1st drivers to top 228 mph on 2nd day of Indianapolis 500 practice
INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis 500 drivers turned Wednesday’s practice into a possible race day preview.
They ran in packs, created long, snaking lines through the two long straightaways and mostly avoided trouble over the frantic final 75 minutes on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.5-mile oval.
Conor Daly and Alex Palou took advantage of the cool, overcast conditions to post the fastest laps on the second practice day. Daly posted the best lap of the day at 228.080 mph with Palou just a fraction slower at 228.026. They were the only drivers to top 228, while Palou had the fastest trap speed of the day at 237.220.
“We have, we think, found some speed in other areas,” said Jack Harvey, Daly’s teammate with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing. “So, generally, they’re just all excited to try and I think, I mean I think we were good the last month of May, but I think we can be a lot better this year.”
Harvey has been fast all month, though he finished 14th on Wednesday at 225.100.
The weather created ideal conditions for speed and the drivers didn’t disappoint.
Daly, the stepson of speedway president Doug Boles, seems to be making the most of his first and possibly only IndyCar start of the season. He was one of five drivers to top 225 on Tuesday, then backed that up with an even better performance Wednesday.
David Malukas was the strongest of Team Penske’s drivers, finishing third at 227.139, just behind Palou, the Spaniard who has won four series crowns and is the defending 500 champ. Graham Rahal and France’s Romain Grosjean rounded out the top five.
Though most of the 33 drivers stayed on the track as long as they could over the final 75 minutes, crew members for three previous race winners — Ryan Hunter-Reay, Helio Castroneves and Alexander Rossi — were also busy trying to fix problems.
Hunter-Reay, of Arrow McLaren, had a radio issue. Castroneves, of Meyer Shank Racing, had an issue with the car’s balance, while Rossi’s Ed Carpenter Racing crew worked on the engine.
Drivers return to the track Thursday then will receive a turbocharge boost Friday before making four-lap qualification runs on Saturday and Sunday. The race is scheduled for May 24.
It hasn’t just been busy on the track.
One day after series officials announced their second rule change of the month, race organizers announced all reserved seats have been sold for the second straight year and the third time since 2016. That also means fans in central Indiana will be able to watch the telecast live.
And NASCAR team BRANDed Management announced it would give 45-year-old British driver Katherine Legge a chance to qualify for the Coca-Cola 600. If Legge qualifies for both races, she’ll become the first woman to attempt racing’s “double” — 1,100 miles of racing in one day — a half century after Janet Guthrie arrived at the Brickyard with the hope of qualifying for the 33-car starting grid. When that didn’t happen, Guthrie wound up starting NASCAR’s World 600, which is now known as the Coca-Cola 600.
Indianapolis, IN
Katherine Legge Will Attempt to Make History With Indianapolis 500, NASCAR Double in Same Day
Katherine Legge will look to make motorsports history this month by competing in IndyCar and NASCAR Cup Series races on the same day.
According to ESPN, Legge’s BRANDed Management announced Wednesday that she intends to race in the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on May 24, which is a feat known in racing as “the double.”
The double has been attempted 10 times by five different drivers, but Legge would be the first woman to do so if she pulls it off.
Speaking to USA Today‘s Mitchell Northam regarding her ambitious plan, Legge said, “It’s another groundbreaking thing that I can showcase to the world really that, if you set your mind to things, you can do anything, and you can do things that maybe you never even dreamt of before.”
Legge, who is a 45-year-old motorsports veteran from England, has competed in the Indy 500 four times, and she has run in eight NASCAR Cup Series races over the past two seasons.
Her best Indy 500 finish to date was 22nd in 2012, while her best result in a NASCAR Cup Series race was 17th last season at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Kyle Larson was the most recent driver to run the double, doing so last season. He previously attempted it in 2024, but a rain delay during the Indy 500 caused him to miss the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
John Andretti, Robby Gordon, Tony Stewart, Kurt Busch and Larson have all run the double, but the only driver to ever complete every lap of both races in the same day was Stewart in 2001.
No driver running the double has ever won a race as part of it. Stewart’s finishes of sixth in the Indy 500 and third in the Coca-Cola 600 in 2001 are the best results in the double to date.
Regardless of where she finishes, Legge will etch her name in motorsports history forever if she is merely able to qualify for and compete in both the 2026 Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600.
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