By Austin Lawton, Staff Writer

Day one of the Indianapolis 500 Open Test saw Conor Daly atop the speed charts in his return to Dreyer and Reinbold Racing. Daly set a mark of 225.394 mph, only one of two drivers to do so on Tuesday afternoon. The Noblesville, Indiana native turned 40 laps on the day and is looking forward to day two. 

“Good to get back in the swing of things here,” Daly said. “The team did a great job preparing all winter for this day. It’s only day one for us, but it was obviously a good day. Thankful to be working with Chevrolet again and also everyone at ARCO and Kingspan. It’s only day one, onto day two.” 

The veterans of Indianapolis showed strong pace all day long with Helio Castroneves ending the day second fastest at 225.200 mph, showing consistent speed early on. Takuma Sato (224.800 mph), Scott Dixon (224.564) and Alexander Rossi (224.367) closed out the top five on the overall charts. 

SEE: Indy 500 Open Test Day One Combined Results

SEE: Indy 500 Open Test Day One no-tow Results

On the no-tow charts, Jack Harvey was fastest in the second DRR car (220.318 mph). Harvey was only one of two drivers to break the 220-mph barrier as Kyle Kirkwood (220.273) was second. Following Kirkwood was Castroneves (219.862 mph), Felix Rosenqvist (219.411 mph) and Kyffin Simpson (219.318 mph). 

There were 2,262 laps turned across all three sessions on Tuesday and three drivers made their first competitive laps on the IMS oval: Dennis Hauger, Caio Collet and Mick Schumacher. Jacob Abel returns as the fourth rookie in the field after being bumped driving for Dale Coyne Racing in 2025. 

Schumacher (220.781 mph) turned 99 laps on Tuesday in what was a day full of learning for the Formula 1 and World Endurance Championship veteran- turned Indycar rookie. 

“Obviously going through our ROP at the beginning, I think it was great just to get to know the track, get to know the feelings you have driving out there,” Schumacher said. “Overall just inching my way towards being flat, then trimming and trimming. Essentially then, yeah, we spent a lot of time in the box to try to run through some setup differences that we wanted to do and change. So yeah, now we got a lot of tires for tomorrow.”

Although a veteran of IMS and Indycar racing, David Malukas turned his first laps around IMS in a Team Penske Indycar. Malukas considered day one a “good day for the team”, as he worked on race running with teammates Scott McLaughlin and Josef Newgarden. 

“We went out, all three of us, towards the afternoon, we all went a little bit different on three different programs,” Malukas said. “Me and Scott ended up back together with some race running at the end. We wanted to do it between the three of us, but kick-start everyone else, who is willing to join us. Thankfully we ended up getting Pato in that group as well. I actually felt like I was with Pato a lot today. Even after lunch, we went back out, me and him were swapping positions back and forth. We got a lot of data from each other.”

Only 32 drivers turned laps on Tuesday with Kathrine Legge being the only driver to not turn a lap on Tuesday. The No.11 e.l.f. A.J Foyt/HMD Motorsports entry suffered gearbox control unit issues as the car stalled multiple times leaving the pits. Legge will be given an hour on Wednesday to complete her refresher program.