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Track and field at the 2024 Paris Olympics: World-record watch, schedule and how to watch
From the sprints to the jumps to the throws to the road races, track and field events have long been the heartbeat of the Summer Olympics, and the 2024 Games in Paris won’t be any different.
Ranging from the 100-meter to the marathon, there are 16 running events (including two relays, the 20km race walk and the two mixed events). Adding in the four jumping events (pole vault, high jump, long jump and triple jump), the four throwing events (shot put, discus, hammer throw and javelin) and the heptathlon/decathlon, there will be a total of 48 athletics events at the 2024 Games.
That makes track and field by far the most contested sport at the Olympics.
With more to watch for than in any other sport, here’s what you’ll need to know.
Schedule (all times ET)
With so many events and many of those events involving multiple rounds of competition, here’s a list of the final rounds for each discipline. The full schedule of events is here.
| Date | Event | Time (ET) |
|---|---|---|
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Aug. 1 |
M 20km race walk |
1:30 a.m. |
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W 20km race walk |
3:20 a.m. |
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Aug. 2 |
M 10,000-meter |
3:20 p.m. |
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Aug. 3 |
M shot put |
1:35 p.m. |
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W triple jump |
2:20 p.m. |
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Mixed 4×400-meter relay |
2:55 p.m. |
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W 100-meter |
3:20 p.m. |
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M decathlon 1,500-meter (final event) |
3:45 p.m. |
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Aug. 4 |
W high jump |
1:50 p.m. |
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M hammer throw |
2:30 p.m. |
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M 100-meter |
3:50 p.m. |
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Aug. 5 |
M pole vault |
1 p.m. |
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W discus throw |
2:35 p.m. |
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W 5,000-meter |
3:10 p.m. |
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W 800-meter |
3:45 p.m. |
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Aug. 6 |
W hammer throw |
1:55 p.m. |
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M long jump |
2:15 p.m. |
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M 1,500-meter |
2:50 p.m. |
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W 3,000-meter steeplechase |
3:10 p.m. |
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W 200-meter |
3:40 p.m. |
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Aug. 7 |
Marathon race walk mixed relay |
1:30 a.m. |
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W pole vault |
1 p.m. |
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M discus throw |
2:25 p.m. |
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M 400-meter |
3:20 p.m. |
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M 3,000-meter steeplechase |
3:40 p.m. |
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Aug. 8 |
W long jump |
2 p.m. |
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M javelin throw |
2:25 p.m. |
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M 200-meter |
2:30 p.m. |
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W 400-meter hurdles |
3:25 p.m. |
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M 110-meter hurdles |
3:45 p.m. |
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Aug. 9 |
W 4×100-meter relay |
1:30 p.m. |
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W shot put |
1:40 p.m. |
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M 4×100-meter relay |
1:45 p.m. |
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W 400-meter |
2 p.m. |
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M triple jump |
2:10 p.m. |
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W heptathlon 800-meter (final event) |
2:15 p.m. |
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W 10,000-meter |
2:55 p.m. |
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M 400-meter hurdles |
3:45 p.m. |
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Aug. 10 |
M marathon |
2 a.m. |
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M high jump |
1:10 p.m. |
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M 800-meter |
1:25 p.m. |
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W javelin throw |
1:40 p.m. |
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W 100-meter hurdles |
1:45 p.m. |
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M 5,000-meter |
2 p.m. |
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W 1,500-meter |
2:25 p.m. |
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M 4×400-meter relay |
3:12 p.m. |
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W 4×400-meter relay |
3:22 p.m. |
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Aug. 11 |
W marathon |
2 a.m. |
World records in danger
Men’s pole vault: Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis has already established his case as pole vaulting’s GOAT, having broken and re-broken his own world record seven times. The former LSU standout most recently broke the mark in April at the Xiamen Diamond League meet, clearing 6.24 meters.
Women’s 200-meter: Could this be the year Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 36-year-old record goes down? Her time of 21.34 seconds hasn’t been touched, but Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson and America’s Gabby Thomas are serious contenders. Jackson ran 21.41, the second-fastest time in history, at the 2023 world championships, while Thomas ran a 21.78 in the semifinals of the U.S. trials in June en route to her victory.
Men’s shot put: Behind Duplantis, American Ryan Crouser has a case for the world’s most dominant athlete in track and field. He’s set the record twice, most recently at the Los Angeles Grand Prix in 2023, tossing 23.56 meters. Crouser has had marks of 22.84 and 22.80 meters in 2024. Fellow American Joe Kovacs has the best throw of the year with a 23.13-meter mark in May.
Men’s triple jump: Great Britain’s Jonathan Edwards’ world-record mark of 18.29 meters has stood since 1995, but a pair of young competitors have the record in sight. Cuban Jordan Díaz, who represents Spain internationally, jumped 18.18 meters in June to win the European championships with the third-best leap ever. In the U.S., Jamaican 19-year-old Jaydon Hibbert won the 2023 Bowerman Award (track’s Heisman) after repeatedly breaking the U20 world record for Arkansas, ending the season with an NCAA-record 17.87 meters at the SEC championships.
Women’s 400-meter hurdles: American star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has struggled with injuries, but when she is on, she’s the best the world has ever seen in the 400-meter hurdles. She broke her own record for the fourth time with a time of 50.65 seconds in June at the U.S. Olympic trials. She could beat it again in Paris, but she’ll have to hold off Netherlands’ Femke Bol, who became the second woman to run sub-51 when she ran 50.95 seconds to break her own European record on July 14.
Women’s 400 meters: Speaking of Bol, the Dutch star ran a 49.17 to win the 400-meter indoor world championship in March, breaking her own world indoor record in the process. The overall record of 47.60 was set by Marita Koch of East Germany in 1985.
Men’s 400-meter hurdles: Norwegian Karsten Warholm and American Rai Benjamin had a battle for the ages at the 2020 Olympics, which ended with Warholm breaking his old world record in the event with a time of 45.94. He bested Benjamin again at the 2023 world championships, but Benjamin posted a world-leading time of 46.46 at the U.S. Olympic trials in June to set the stage for a thrilling rematch.
Team USA stars to watch
There is no bigger American track name than Sha’Carri Richardson. After she was unable to compete at the 2020 Games due to a suspension, the U.S. star is ready to make a splash in Paris in the 100-meter. She defended her U.S. title with a win at the trials, running 10.71. Her PR of 10.65 ties Jackson for fifth-best ever.
In the men’s 100, Noah Lyles caught plenty of attention for tucking “Yu-Gi-Oh!” cards in his singlet before races at the trials, but even more attention for his dominant performances. He won both the 100 and the 200, tying his 100-meter PR of 9.83 and then breaking a 28-year-old trials record in the 200 with a time of 19.53, positioning himself as an Olympic favorite in both events.
In the relays, teenage sensation Quincy Wilson will become the youngest male competitor in U.S. Olympic track history. The 16-year-old finished sixth at the trials in the 400 with a time of 44.94, leaving him out of the running for the open 400 but earning a slot on the relay team.
While Americans love the mile, the international stage runs the 1,500-meter, and U.S. fans should be eager to catch Yared Nuguse and Cole Hocker mix it up with the world’s best. Nuguse was considered a contender to break up the dominant rivalry of Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Great Britain’s Josh Kerr, and then Hocker stunned Nuguse and the world by upsetting Nuguse at the Olympic trials.
Hocker’s winning time of 3:30.59 broke the trials record by 3.5 seconds and showed he has the world-class fitness to mix it up at Paris.
In the women’s 1,500, Nikki Hiltz will lead the American charge. Hiltz identifies as transgender and nonbinary and won the trials with a personal-best time of 3:55.33.
Grant Holloway will be seeking Olympic vengeance in the men’s 110-meter hurdles, as he owns the world’s fastest time in 2024 but finished as the runner-up in Tokyo. He’s run sub-13 seconds three times this year and was joined under 13 seconds by Freddie Crittenden and Daniel Roberts, the first time in trials history three hurdlers broke that time barrier.
How to watch
TV: NBC, USA, E!, Telemundo and Universo
Streaming: Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, the NBC app and the NBC Olympics app
In addition to the medal events listed above, there will be morning sessions Aug. 2-9 beginning at 4 a.m. ET featuring preliminary rounds airing live on E! or USA. Check here for full day-by-day TV and streaming info. Medal events will be heavily featured in NBC’s tape-delayed prime-time coverage.
Stars not in action
The most notable name in track who won’t be competing in Paris this summer is Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah, the two-time defending Olympic champion in the 100 and 200. She withdrew from the Jamaican Olympic Trials and later revealed she was dealing with an Achilles injury.
Thompson-Herah’s 100-meter time of 10.51 in 2021 made her the second-fastest woman in history behind Griffith-Joyner.
From the U.S., 800-meter star Athing Mu will miss out on her chance to defend her Olympic gold medal after she fell around the 200-meter mark in the semifinals of the Olympic trials and couldn’t catch back up to the leaders. The 22-year-old’s coach argued Mu was clipped from behind, but their protest was denied.
Mu is the American record holder in the event and became the first American, male or female, to win Olympic gold in the 800 since Dave Wottle in 1972.
Venezuelan fans will feel a similar sting with the absence of Yulimar Rojas, one of the greatest jumpers in world history. She’s nicknamed “la reina del triple salto” (queen of the triple jump) for good reason: She broke a 25-year-old record in the event at the 2021 Olympics and then broke her own record a couple years later, leaping 15.74 meters.
In April, she suffered an Achilles injury during a training session and subsequently announced she would miss the Olympics.
In memoriam
Kelvin Kiptum had all the makings of the next GOAT in the marathon. The 24-year-old broke the world record in the fabled event in his third career marathon, running 2:00:35 to take 34 seconds off the previous record, setting up a showcase for the ages with compatriot Eliud Kipchoge, who previously held the world record and is also recognized as the greatest marathoner ever after becoming the first man to run sub-2 hours in a controlled race environment.
Then tragedy struck, as Kiptum died in a car accident in February.
Kipchoge will lead the Kenyan team as he looks to become the first person to win three Olympic gold medals in the marathon, but the event will certainly carry an air of sadness as fans miss out on what could have been a generational passing of the torch.
Required reading
(Photo of Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson: Tim Clayton / Corbis via Getty Images)
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The highly anticipated 30th WNBA season tipped off Friday with three games, including the expansion Toronto Tempo’s first-ever contest.
The action continued Saturday with a full slate, including Caitlin Clark’s return after an injury-riddled sophomore season.
Clark and the Indiana Fever hosted the Dallas Wings on Saturday afternoon in a matchup featuring the four most recent No. 1 overall picks. The Wings outlasted the Fever 107-104, but the game was defined by Azzi Fudd’s — the most recent top pick — underwhelming debut.
Dallas Wings guards Azzi Fudd and Paige Bueckers react during the first half of the Fever’s season opener at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on May 9, 2026. (Grace Smith/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
Fudd played 18 minutes off the bench, scoring three points — the lowest ever by a No. 1 overall pick in a WNBA debut.
Wings coach Jose Fernandez addressed Fudd’s performance after the game, encouraging the rookie to, “Keep doing what she’s doing, it’s her first year in the league. We got five really talented backcourt players.”
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In addition to Fudd, Dallas’ backcourt features last year’s top draft pick Paige Bueckers, last season’s No. 12 overall pick Aziaha James, four-time All-Star Arike Ogunbowale and starting guard Odyssey Sims.
Until Saturday, Kelsey Plum held the record for the lowest-scoring debut by a No. 1 pick. Selected first overall by the then-San Antonio Stars in 2017, she scored just four points in her debut. The Stars relocated to Las Vegas in 2018 and was subsequently rebranded as the Aces.
Dallas Wings guard Azzi Fudd warms up before the game against the Indiana Fever at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 9, 2026. (Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
Despite the slow start to her first season in the league, Plum ended the year with All-Rookie team honors. In the years since, she’s been named to four All-Star teams and won two championships with the Aces.
The Wings’ decision to take Fudd with the No. 1 overall pick drew controversy, raising questions about whether Bueckers’ personal relationship with her influenced the selection. Late last month, Bueckers said last month it did not.
Azzi Fudd poses with WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert after being selected first overall by the Dallas Wings during the 2026 WNBA Draft at The Shed in New York City on April 13, 2026. (Angelina Katsanis/Getty Images)
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“Azzi Fudd was the No. 1 draft pick because she earned it, and it had nothing to do with me and everything to do with who she is as a human being, who she is as a basketball player,” Bueckers said, according to ESPN.
Neither Bueckers nor Fudd has publicly updated their relationship status since the April draft.
“Quite frankly, I believe me and Azzi’s personal relationship is nobody’s business but our own,” Bueckers also said in April. “And what we choose to share is completely up to us.”
Next up, the Wings play their home opener on Tuesday when they host the Atlanta Dream.
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The Lakers are one playoff defeat from their season being over and from the conversation turning to LeBron James’ future.
They are in a hole no team has climbed out of in the history of the NBA, the Lakers’ 131-108 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 3 putting L.A. down 3-0 in the best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal series.
James and his teammates gave a gallant effort Saturday night at Crypto.com Arena, but the defending champion proved to be more than the Lakers could handle.
James finished his night with 19 points on seven-for-19 shooting, eight assists and six rebounds. Rui Hachimura had 21 points and Austin Reaves finished with 17 points and nine assists.
Even so, the Lakers have now lost all three games by double digits.
And the Lakers are fully aware that no NBA team has successfully come back from a 3-0 deficit in the playoffs, with those teams holding a 161-0 record. Only four teams have forced a Game 7 after trailing 3-0, all of which ultimately lost the series, including the Boston Celtics in 2023.
Lakers forward LeBron James shows frustration as Thunder center Chet Holmgren slam dunks during Game 3 on Saturday night.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Game 4 is Monday night, when the Lakers will try to stave off elimination and a night that will determine how the conversations go with James if they lose.
James has been frequently asked this season about retirement, but he has not given any indication of what the future holds for him.
He’s 41 years old and playing in an NBA-record 23rd season.
James is in the final year of his contract that pays him $52 million, making him a free agent this offseason. He can retire, join another team or perhaps return to the Lakers next season.
That will be the conversation if the Lakers can’t win Game 4.
They will see the same Thunder team that had seven players score in double figures, led by Ajay Mitchell’s 24 points and 10 assists and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s 23 points and nine assists.
The Lakers went down 13 in the third quarter and had to play catchup the rest of the way. They never did, going down by 112-94 with 6 minutes and 12 seconds left, forcing Lakers coach JJ Redick to call a timeout.
The deficit just kept growing, topping out at 27 points in the fourth.
They were outscored 33-20 in the third quarter. The Lakers didn’t take care of the basketball in the third, turning it over six times, and they didn’t play good defense, allowing the Thunder to shoot 59.1% from the field and 55.6 percent from three-point range,
The Lakers did not give an inch to the Thunder in the first half, even when they fell behind by 10 points.
They just kept grinding until they led 59-57 at halftime.
Hachimura had 16 points in the first half, continuing his hot three-point shooting by making all four of his threes. Luke Kennard came off the bench to give the Lakers 13 points, shooting five for six from the field and three for four from three-point range.
The Lakers kept the pressure defense on Gilgeous-Alexander. Though he had 14 points in the first half, he shot only four for 14 from the field and one for five from three-point range.
The Lakers shot 55% from three-point range in the first half, which went a long way in helping them.
The Lakers lost the first two games by identical margins of 18 points and each loss was magnified because Gilgeous-Alexander was kept under wraps for the most part by L.A.’s defense.
When Gilgeous-Alexander picked up his fourth foul with 10:34 left in the third quarter of Game 2 and went to the bench, the Thunder turned a five-point lead into a 13-point advantage at the end of the quarter.
So, when he wasn’t on the court, the Lakers failed to take advantage.
“Well, you know, again, I’ll repeat what I said after the game: we’ve got to be better in the non-Shai minutes,” Lakers coach JJ Redick said.
Role players like Mitchell and Jared McCain hurt the Lakers in the second game. Chet Holmgren also was hard to deal with.
“Mitchell and McCain have hurt us in those non-Shai minutes, and then Chet [Holmgren] has hurt us the whole game,” Redick said. “I think you’ve got to be willing to live with something. Shai playing one-on-one, thus far in the series, we haven’t been willing to live with, so you’re going to be in rotation. That can lead to smalls on bigs at the hole, and the offensive rebounding from Chet has really hurt us.”
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In 2025, Alex Palou kicked off the Month of May with a Sonsio Grand Prix win at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.
Based on the odds, it’s likely that Palou will find himself in Winner’s Circle again this Saturday when INDYCAR goes back to IMS on May 9 (4:30 p.m. ET, FOX).
Considering Palou has already captured the checkered flag three times this season, are there any other drivers whose odds are worth a wager?
Here are the latest lines at DraftKings Sportsbook as of May 9.
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Àlex Palou: 5/18 (bet $10 to win $12.78 total)
Kyle Kirkwood: 5/1 (bet $10 to win $60 total)
Pato O’Ward: 12/1 (bet $10 to win $130 total)
David Malukas: 14/1 (bet $10 to win $150 total)
Josef Newgarden: 16/1 (bet $10 to win $170 total)
Scott McLaughlin: 20/1 (bet $10 to win $210 total)
Christian Lundgaard: 30/1 (bet $10 to win $310 total)
Scott Dixon: 40/1 (bet $10 to win $410 total)
Will Power: 60/1 (bet $10 to win $610 total)
Felix Rosenqvist: 80/1 (bet $10 to win $810 total)
Alexander Rossi: 100/1 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total)
Marcus Ericsson: 100/1 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total)
Marcus Armstrong: 100/1 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total)
Christian Rasmussen: 150/1 (bet $10 to win $1,510 total)
Graham Rahal: 150/1 (bet $10 to win $1,510 total)
Louis Foster: 300/1 (bet $10 to win $3,010 total)
Dennis Hauger: 500/1 (bet $10 to win $5,010 total)
Romain Grosjean: 500/1 (bet $10 to win $5,010 total)
Santino Ferrucci: 500/1 (bet $10 to win $5,010 total)
Rinus Veekay: 500/1 (bet $10 to win $5,010 total)
Kyffin Simpson: 500/1 (bet $10 to win $5,010 total)
Caio Collet: 1000/1 (bet $10 to win $10,010 total)
Sting Ray Robb: 1000/1 (bet $10 to win $10,010 total)
Nolan Siegel: 1000/1 (bet $10 to win $10,010 total)
Mick Schumacher: 1000/1 (bet $10 to win $10,010 total)
Here’s what to know about the oddsboard:
Heavy Favorite: It doesn’t look like Alex Palou’s dominance will be slowing down anytime soon. As noted above, he’s already won three of the five races since the INDYCAR season started in March. With 186 laps led, Palou sits first in the standings and has the shortest odds to win the title again. Last season, he started from the pole and led 29 laps before winning the race.
Long Shot to Watch: While his odds of 150/1 to win at IMS are much longer than Palou’s, Graham Rahal is one to watch. At this race in 2025, he started second and led 49 laps before finishing sixth. He finished second at this course in 2015, 2020 and 2023. He’s currently 10th in the INDYCAR standings, with one top five and three top 10s.
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