2025 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
| Race details | |||||
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| 1st round of the 2025 IndyCar season | |||||
Layout of the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg | |||||
| Date | March 2, 2025 | ||||
| Official name | Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg | ||||
| Location | Streets of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Florida | ||||
| Course | Temporary street circuit 1.800 mi / 2.897 km | ||||
| Distance | 100 laps 180.000 mi / 289.682 km | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) | ||||
| Time | 59.4624 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver | Josef Newgarden (Team Penske) | ||||
| Time | 1:01.6900 (on lap 89 of 100) | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Álex Palou (Chip Ganassi Racing) | ||||
| Second | Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing) | ||||
| Third | Josef Newgarden (Team Penske) | ||||
| Chronology | |||||
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The 2025 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg was the first round of the 2025 IndyCar season. The race was held on March 2, 2025, in St. Petersburg, Florida at the streets of St. Petersburg. The race took the scheduled 100 laps to complete. Álex Palou won the race. Scott Dixon finished 2nd, and Josef Newgarden finished 3rd. Scott McLaughlin and Kyle Kirkwood rounded out the top five, and Marcus Ericsson, Felix Rosenqvist, Christian Lundgaard, Rinus VeeKay, and Alexander Rossi rounded out the top ten.
A collision on the first lap resulted in the retiring of Nolan Siegel, Will Power, and Louis Foster.