Josef Newgarden

Two, in 2023 and 2024. He was the sixth driver in the history of the race to win it in consecutive years and the first since Hélio Castroneves in 2002. Both wins were settled on the final lap.

Two, in 2017 and 2019, both with Team Penske. He also finished runner-up three years in a row, in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

He passed Pato O'Ward at turn three on lap 200, the last lap, and won by 0.3417 seconds. It was only the fourth time in the race's history that the 500 had been decided by a last-lap pass, and it gave Team Penske a record-extending twentieth victory in the event.

Thirty-four, from 249 IndyCar starts, according to IndyCar's official record. His first came at Barber Motorsports Park in 2015, in his fourth season, and his most recent at Gateway in 2026.

He came through the Skip Barber schools, then moved to England, where in 2008 he became the first American to win the Formula Ford Festival. He was runner-up in the 2009 British Formula Ford championship with nine wins, spent 2010 in GP3, and won the Indy Lights title on his return to the United States in 2011.

Yes. He won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2024, which made him the sixteenth driver to have won both that race and the Indianapolis 500. He also holds the IndyCar record for the most laps led in a single race, 282 of 300 at Iowa in 2016.

He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and grew up in nearby Hendersonville. His parents named him Josef for his mother's Danish family, and he holds a Danish passport as well as an American one.

He worked on a children's book, Josef's BIG Dream: An INDY 500 Story, with his wife Ashley and the author Andy Amendola, published with IndyCar. It follows his route from a childhood ambition to two Indianapolis 500 victories.