Alex Palou arrives at World Wide Technology Raceway on Sunday, June 7th, with four wins in eight races and a manufacturer’s championship that Honda is controlling by 103 points.
The Spaniard has taken St. Petersburg, Barber, Long Beach, and last weekend’s Detroit street race in his run toward a fifth IndyCar title. Kyle Kirkwood, who won at World Wide Technology Raceway last year for his first short-oval victory, added the inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington to Honda’s 2026 total. Felix Rosenqvist gave the manufacturer its second consecutive Indianapolis 500 win. That makes six Honda victories in eight starts. Honda leads the manufacturers’ standings 690-587.
Palou will run the HRC livery again this weekend, the same scheme he carried to victory at Detroit. He is two wins in two starts when the car wears HRC colors, the first coming at the 2025 Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix. The livery ties to HRC’s U.S. business expansion, which includes a performance-parts operation offering genuine HRC components for Acura and Honda road cars.
Sunday’s race is the second night event at the St. Louis oval since IndyCar returned to the facility in 2017 after a 14-year gap. Kirkwood won under the lights last year. That victory extended a streak that had reached seven consecutive Honda wins to open the 2025 season, a manufacturer record since multi-engine competition resumed in 2012. All seven of those wins belonged to either Kirkwood or Palou.
Scott Dixon has two wins at World Wide Technology Raceway since the series came back. He took his 50th career IndyCar victory there in 2020, then dominated in 2023 by lapping everyone outside the top three and winning by more than 20 seconds. Takuma Sato scored Honda’s first win at the track in 2019.
Honda fields 13 entries Sunday. Chip Ganassi Racing brings Palou, Dixon, and Kyffin Simpson. Andretti Global enters Will Power, Kirkwood, and Marcus Ericsson. Meyer Shank Racing runs Rosenqvist and Marcus Armstrong. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing has Graham Rahal, Louis Foster, and Mick Schumacher. Dale Coyne Racing fields Romain Grosjean and Dennis Hauger.
The Bommarito Automotive Group 500 airs at 8 p.m. Central on Fox.
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