Helio Castroneves (2001, 2002, 2009, 2021) is the most winningest Indy 500 driver taking part this year, with the likes of Josef Newgarden (2023, 2024) and Takuma Sato (2017, 2020) also having won ...

It all seemed to pay off Monday, when Nielsen’s Fast National ratings revealed a mammoth number of average viewers: 7.05 million, the most to watch an Indy 500 in 17 years (7.2 million in 2008).

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