Simply hours after a scary crash that noticed him flip the other way up in a bathe of sparks, 25-year-old Colton Herta locked himself into the 2025 Indianapolis 500 discipline in a back-up automobile that he hadn’t turned a single lap in.
After taking a harrowing, airborne, the other way up experience by way of flip 1 on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Herta certified for the Indy 500 lower than 5 hours after the crash.
Herta locked himself into the twenty ninth beginning place for the 109th operating of the Indianapolis 500 on Might twenty fifth, the place he’ll go for his first Indianapolis 500 win in his seventh begin.
“At this time actually is not about me,” Herta informed Fox Sports activities after the qualifying run that locked him into the race. “I attempted all I may to in all probability damage our day, and the fellows did all they might to make it. I am amazed that they have been capable of put a automobile collectively on this period of time. That was plenty of work, not simply from my guys, however from the sister automobiles as effectively, anyone who was keen to place within the work.”
“It is much less about me and what I simply did to get on the market. It is extra concerning the crew guys and what they’ve executed to place us within the place to even be on this race.”
Herta’s 4 lap, 10-mile run culminated in a mean pace of 230.192 miles per hour across the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
