Kyle Kirkwood finishes third in the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio

• Kyle Kirkwood retakes second place in the championship with third-place result from P10 start at Mid-Ohio
• Championship leader Alex Palou fifth at the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid
• Honda maintains narrow advantage in the manufacturers' championship fight

Kyle Kirkwood continues his streak of strong finishes in the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES, coming home third in the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid.

The podium finish moves the Andretti Global driver back into second place in the championship, 56 points behind Alex Palou. Kirkwood has scored 10 top-10 finishes in 11 races run this year, including a win at the inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington.

Championship leader Alex Palou finished fifth for the second-consecutive race. The Spaniard has four wins this year as he goes for his fifth NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship.

Kirkwood's Andretti Global teammate, Will Power, finished sixth on the day while local Ohio boy Graham Rahal came home 12th.

2026 Indianapolis 500 winner Felix Rosenqvist finished 13th, just ahead of his Meyer Shank Racing teammate, Marcus Armstrong, in his Acura-sponsored Indy car.

Armstrong's Acura Honda is the third appearance of Acura branding this season-as the automaker looks to take advantage of a new, and growing, audience in IndyCar. IndyCar viewership is up 14% on 2025. Armstrong advanced 10 positions on the day, starting 24th and finishing 14th.

Today's Honda Indy 200 ran without a caution period, and without a single competitor dropping out, over the entire 90 laps on the two-year anniversary on the introduction of the IndyCar Hybrid System.

Honda maintains a narrow advantage in the manufacturers' championship fight, 892-868.

Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid Honda Race Results

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Quotes

Kyle Kirkwood (#27 Andretti Global Honda) finished third: "I think that was the most physical race I've ever driven, especially with the track being faster than in the previous couple of years. Running under green for the entire race gave us no breathers at all. It was hard to even take a drink of water with it being so busy around here. But nonetheless, I'm happy to have driven this Sam's Club Honda from 10th to 3rd. That's a good podium finish. Big hats off to Honda and the Honda plants out here in Ohio because they gave us the power and fuel economy to do what we needed to make our strategy work. Super thrilled with my day. Big thanks to Andretti Global and the crew-they got us that podium on that last pit stop sequence. The car was phenomenal all weekend."

Alex Palou (#10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda) finished fifth: "Tough day for us. We just didn't really have the pace to battle up front. But I'm still happy because our strategy was good and everything else went great with our Honda. We were able to move up from P8 to P5. It's just difficult when you don't have enough speed to fight for the lead. It felt more like we were surviving out there, so we were just focused on trying to gain as many positions as we could."

David Salters (President, HRC US): "Congratulations to Kyle Kirkwood, Andretti Global, and everyone at HRC US for a hard-fought and well-earned podium finish in the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio. It's always great to achieve a strong result at a venue which holds a lot of importance for us, with the facility being so close to the Honda Marysville and East Liberty Auto Plants as well as Honda Research & Development. It was wonderful to be able to welcome over ten thousand hard working Ohio-based Honda employees to the track this weekend, and even better to have been able to deliver a podium result to top it off. We have some work to do to get back on the top step but, racing mirrors life, always work to do and areas that can be improved."

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The 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES returns to oval racing for the Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix Nashville Superspeedway on July 19th, following the conclusion of the World Cup Final.

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