By CHARLES HUIRAS
WISH-TV | wishtv.com
Felix Rosenqvist won the 110th Running of the Indianapolis 500. Rosenqvist passed David Malukas on the final straightaway to win his first career Indianapolis 500.
After the narrow win, Rosenqvist described the out-of-body experience it was to win the Indianapolis 500 in front of over 350,000 people.
“I’m still not able to take it in,” Rosenqvist said. “I need another month or week. It’s been such a crazy month for me. That finish, man, I can’t get over that finish. It’s so unbelievable how close it was, I feel like any of the four of us could’ve won it. It just worked out perfectly.”
This year’s Indy 500 ended on a one-lap restart. The green flag waved on lap 199, and chaos ensued for the final 2.5-mile sprint.
Marcus Armstrong opened the final lap with the lead before David Malukas passed Armstrong coming out of Turn 1. As they headed to Turn 4, Rosenqvist made his move and passed Malukas on the final straight away to mark the closest finish in Indianapolis 500 history. Rosenqvist beat Malukas to the finish line by a mere 0.023 seconds.
Rosenqvist shared how much of a whirlwind the final lap was for him.
“That last lap, I just stayed flat on the outside, and I was like, at this point, I’m just going to go all in,” Rosenqvist said. “It just worked out, I had a little tow off with Dave in the last corner, and it’s enough to take me over the line. It was pretty gnarly. I’ve never tried it around here, but I did, and it worked for the whole lap. I just hung around the outside flat.”
Rosenqvist added more on how exhilarating the last lap felt.
“I think, honestly, if I replayed it a million times, it wouldn’t have ended up the same,” Rosenqvist said. “Everything was just 10 out of 10, and it’s no better feeling to win this race, like that, during a month where I had a baby sixteen days ago. Incredible.”
This year’s Indianapolis 500 had the most lead changes in the race’s 110-year history, with 70.
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