Scott McLaughlin crashed out of the Indy 500 during the warm up this afternoon. The New Zealand driver was moving from side to side to warm up his tyres when he suddenly lost control of his car, and smashed into the track side wall, destroying the front left side of his Team Penke car.

Scott McLaughlin will have a new strategist and engineer for the Indianapolis 500 because of a rules infraction that concerned a part on Team Penske cars other than his own, and that has left him both angrily defensive and utterly motivated.

Scott McLaughlin, the 2024 Indianapolis 500 pole-sitter, crashed during practice Sunday on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval. McLaughlin did a half-spin and crashed hard into the Turn 2 wall.

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As of race day on Sunday morning, O'Ward (+475) and Palou (+475) are still favored to win, per BetMGM. But two-time defending Indy 500 champ Josef Newgarden jumped ahead of McLaughlin and Dixon and now has the third-best odds to win his third straight Indy 500 at +700 — despite being part of the Team Penske controversy this week.

He won the pole with Italian team Prema Racing, a dominant European organization that this season expanded to IndyCar. Shwartzman has never before raced on an oval and will start alongside two-time winner Takuma Sato and Pato O’Ward, who lost to Newgarden on the last lap year.

Pato O'Ward (photo) is starting third Sunday, the second-most successful grid spot in Indianapolis 500 history. Only the pole winner has won more races.

Two-time defending Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden had the fastest lap of the 2-hour final practice on Carb Day at 225.687 mph.