{"id":19560,"date":"2026-05-16T22:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/indy-500-sunday-qualifying-schedule-updated-after-saturday-washout\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:59:58","slug":"indy-500-sunday-qualifying-schedule-updated-after-saturday-washout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/indy-500-sunday-qualifying-schedule-updated-after-saturday-washout\/","title":{"rendered":"Indy 500 Sunday qualifying schedule updated after Saturday washout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RainQ-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RainQ-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RainQ-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RainQ-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RainQ-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RainQ-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RainQ-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>The opening day of qualifying for the 110th Indianapolis 500 has been cancelled due to inclement weather on Saturday, moving all of the grid-deciding sessions to Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intermittent rain over Indianapolis Motor Speedway rendered running impossible on the 2.5-mile oval on Saturday, causing day one of qualifying \u2013 which traditionally sees the full 33-car field making their initial four-lap attempts \u2013 to be called off.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, the entirety of qualifying will now play out exclusively on Sunday, with all 33 cars getting one attempt each to try and make the subsequent \u201cknockout\u201d rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These will consist of a Top 12 round featuring the 12 fastest drivers from the opening attempts, and then the decisive Fast Six pole position shootout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The field will also be given a morning practice session at 9:30 am ET to get themselves up to speed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indycar.com\/news\/2026\/05\/05-16-500-quals-rain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">www.indycar.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Felix heads into qualifying having set the fastest lap of the week so far on \u201dFast Friday\u201d, topping the practice charts at 233.372 mph (375,5 km\/h). He has also posted the quickest four-lap average run (qualifying simulation) at 232.828 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Revised schedule \u2013 Indianapolis 500 qualifying<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>All times local (U.S. Eastern)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Sunday May 17<\/u><\/strong><br>Practice: 9:30 am<br>Qualifying \u2013 full field: 12:00 pm<br>Qualifying \u2013 Top 12: 4:30 pm<br>Qualifying \u2013 Fast Six: 6:00 pm<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening day of qualifying for the 110th Indianapolis 500 has been cancelled due to inclement weather on Saturday, moving all of the grid-deciding sessions to Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[153,170],"class_list":["post-19560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news3","category-press-releases","tag-indianapolis-500-en","tag-ntt-indycar-series-2026","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19560"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19584,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19560\/revisions\/19584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}