Indy 500 Lineup 2023: Full List of Drivers and Qualifying Times for Marquee Race

The Indianapolis 500 has had nine different winners in the last 10 years.

Alex Palou, Rinus VeeKay and Felix Rosenqvist will try to add their names to the diverse list of recent winners from the front row of Sunday's race.

Palou begins the 2023 Indy 500 on pole after he produced a four-lap average of 234.197 miles per hour in qualifying.

VeeKay and Rosenqvist, who start second and third, were the only other drivers to average over 234 MPH. All of the qualifying times can be found here on the race's official website.

Being fast in qualifying may not translate to winning the 200-lap, 500-mile race around Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Simon Pagenaud in 2019 is the only driver to win from the pole in the last decade. The polesitter finished outside the top 10 in the last three Indy 500s.

Indy 500 Starting Lineup

Row 1: Álex Palou, Rinus VeeKay, Felix Rosenqvist

Row 2: Santino Ferrucci, Pato O'Ward, Scott Dixon

Row 3: Alexander Rossi, Takuma Sato, Tony Kanaan

Row 4: Marcus Ericsson, Benjamin Pedersen, Will Power

Row 5: Ed Carpenter, Scott McLaughlin, Kyle Kirkwood

Row 6: Conor Daly, Josef Newgarden, Ryan Hunter-Reay

Row 7: Romain Grosjean, Hélio Castroneves, Colton Herta

Row 8: Simon Pagenaud, David Malukas, Marco Andretti

Row 9: Devlin DeFrancesco, Agustin Canapino, Callum Ilott

Row 10: RC Enerson, Katherine Legge, Christian Lundgaard

Row 11: Sting Ray Robb, Jack Harvey, Graham Rahal

Race Preview

Palou is trying to become the first polesitter to win the Indy 500 since Pagenaud in 2019 and the sixth driver to achieve that feat since 2000. Four drivers won the pole and the race between 2000 and 2010.

The Spaniard may be viewed as the favorite to kiss the bricks and drink the milk after Sunday's race because of his success on the IndyCar Series circuit in 2023.

Palou recorded five top-10 finishes, four top-five finishes and he is the IndyCar Series points leader.

He is also coming off a victory on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. That race obviously required a different skill set than the IMS oval, but Palou's confidence entering Sunday has to be the highest across the grid.

The other drivers in the top five of the IndyCar points have some work to do to reach the front of the race. Pato O'Ward, who is second in the championship standings, starts in fifth, the closest position of that group of drivers to Palou.

Reigning Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson starts in 10th, Scott McLaughlin begins the race in 14th and Romain Grosjean is 19th on the grid.

Early-season form could be one indicator of Indy 500 success, but you also can't count out the previous winners of the race.

Tony Kanaan is in search of a win to cap off his Indy 500 career. The 2013 will say farewell to the historic race on Sunday.

Helio Castroneves will be after his record-setting fifth Indy 500 win. The 48-year-old captured his record-tying fourth victory in 2021, so he still has to be viewed as a threat even though some of the drivers are 20-plus years younger than him.

Takuma Sato is looking to become the 11th driver to win three or more Indy 500s. The 2017 and 2020 champion could make his way to the front early from Row 3.

Then you have previous champions, like Scott Dixon and Will Power, who have multiple IndyCar Series titles in their careers, but only one Indy 500 victory. A second win would add to their illustrious resumes.

You could also make a strong case for someone like Josef Newgarden, who has everything except an Indy 500 triumph on his resume. He and other veteran drivers without an Indy 500 win could be more aggressive on track and have different strategies to get to the front.

It would not be a surprise to see Palou win from the pole because of his consistency in 2023, but the Indy 500 always takes a few unexpected turns and that could lead to a previous winner in Victory Lane, or an unexpected winner, like Ericsson was in 2022.