After a failed try in 2024, Kyle Larson is coming again in 2025 hungrier than ever as he seeks to lastly grow to be the fifth driver (and the primary since 2014) to finish ‘The Double’ by working the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the identical day.
Larson will pilot his standard No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet at Charlotte whereas driving the No. 17 Chevrolet at Indy, which is being fielded in a partnership between Hendrick and Arrow-McLaren. Final 12 months, Larson ran sturdy at Indy earlier than a late-race dashing penalty left him with an 18th-place end. At Charlotte, he by no means received to truly compete resulting from rain delaying the Indy 500. Justin Allgaier drove the No. 5 in his place with Larson planning to take over mid-race, solely to have the identical rain that impacted Indy earlier within the day to reach and finish NASCAR’s (not fairly) 600-miler earlier than he ever received the prospect.
Each automobiles will characteristic the blue Hendrickcars.com colours NASCAR followers have come to affiliate with Larson, but in addition some papaya orange as a nod to McLaren’s involvement. They may even don loads of white with some very noticeable branding from Amazon’s Prime Video on the open-wheel automotive’s aspect pods. Amazon has partnered with Larson for the occasion and can also be filming a documentary surrounding his try to finish ‘The Double.’
Kyle Larson, Arrow McLaren/Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
Photograph by: Hendrick Motorsports
For the uninitiated, the Indy 500 is really the best spectacle in racing. One of many oldest and most prestigious auto racing occasions on the planet, courting again to 1911 and that includes 33 drivers taking over the blistering quick 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the well-known Borg-Warner trophy. The Coca-Cola 600 is not NASCAR’s greatest race (that distinction belongs to the Daytona 500), however it’s its longest. No different race on the calendar reaches past 500 miles besides this one, and it has been that means for the reason that inaugural working of the occasion at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1960.
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