{"id":751,"date":"2026-05-18T22:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=751"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:36:29","slug":"alexander-rossi-taken-to-hospital-after-crash-during-indy-500-practice-that-collects-2-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Rossi taken to hospital after crash during Indy 500 practice that collects 2 others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Alexander Rossi was taken to a hospital for further evaluation after he crashed early in Monday\u2019s practice for the Indianapolis 500.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=749\">CBS 17\u2019s Sara Holland sits down with Taylor Hall as Carolina Hurricanes await Eastern Conference Final opponent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rossi spun going through the second turn on Indianapolis Motor Speedway\u2019s 2.5-mile oval, hitting the outside wall before the car skidded down the track with the rear end of his No. 20 car briefly dragging along the top of the wall. The trailing Pato O\u2019Ward tried to avoid a collision but couldn\u2019t stop in time and hit the side of Rossi\u2019s car, and Romain Grosjean was also collected in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Rossi appeared unsteady when he first tried to climb into a vehicle that took him to the track\u2019s infield medical care center.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Ward and Grosjean also went to the medical center, where they were both quickly checked and released. Track officials initially announced that Rossi, the 2016 Indianapolis 500 winner, was awake, alert and undergoing evaluation. Dr. Julia Valzer later said Rossi had been taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first crash this month on Indy\u2019s oval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust wrong place, wrong time and just got collected there,\u201d O\u2019Ward said before Rossi\u2019s hospitalization was revealed. \u201cThese cars don\u2019t stop very well when you\u2019re going at those speeds and with how you run the brakes. Obviously, I just hit the brakes and there wasn\u2019t much I could do to avoid him, so I\u2019m glad Alex is all right and Romain as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t clear whether the crash would impact the 33-car starting grid for this weekend\u2019s sold-out race. Three of the eight fastest drivers in Sunday\u2019s qualifying \u2014 Rossi, O\u2019Ward and Conor Daly \u2014 all sustained damage to their cars, as did Grosjean, who qualified 24th.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=747\">Arsenal on the verge of Premier League title after beating Burnley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours earlier, Rossi came within a whisker of winning his first Indy pole. He was bumped out of the top spot by defending 500 champion Alex Palou of Spain. Palou\u2019s four-lap average of 232.248 mph was ahead of Rossi\u2019s 231.990. The Californian still wound up in the middle of the front row and is set to start from a career-best second.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Ward, the Mexican driver with Arrow McLaren, earned the No. 6 starting slot, the outside of Row 2, while Daly qualified eighth for his season debut with Dreyer &amp; Reinbold Racing. Now all three, plus Grosjean, will spend the next three days repairing cars they\u2019d spent months fine-tuning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe car was still really good again today in race trim, it felt really comfortable,\u201d Daly said. \u201cUnfortunately, we got caught up in the Turn 2 accident in front of us and collected some damage. Hopefully the (crew) guys can get that all fixed up. I am still quite happy with the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The grid already has changed because two drivers, Caio Collet of A.J. Foyt Enterprises and Jack Harvey, Daly\u2019s teammate, were sent to the back of the field because of rules violations. IndyCar officials said they found unapproved changes and unapproved hardware on the drivers\u2019 equipment when they went through post-qualifying technical inspection Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Team Penske\u2019s Josef Newgarden posted the fastest lap in a practice session that was abbreviated first by the crash and then rain, which washed out most of the final hour that cars were scheduled to be on the track. One more short practice will be held Friday during the annual Carb Day festivities, which include the pit-stop competition.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=745\">Canada beats Denmark and Crosby tallies 4 assists in third-period surge at hockey worlds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP auto racing: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Alexander Rossi was taken to a hospital for further evaluation after he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alexander Rossi taken to hospital after crash during Indy 500 practice that collects 2 others - 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