Listed below are the up to date IndyCar drivers’ world championship standings following the 2025 Grand Prix of Monterey at Laguna Seca:
| 1 | Alex Palou | 590 |
| 2 | Pato O’Ward | 469 |
| 3 | Scott Dixon | 392 |
| 4 | Kyle Kirkwood | 377 |
| 5 | Christian Lundgaard | 357 |
| 6 | Felix Rosenqvist | 315 |
| 7 | Colton Herta | 313 |
| 8 | Marcus Armstrong | 307 |
| 9 | Will Energy | 289 |
| 10 | David Malukas | 276 |
| 11 | Rinus VeeKay | 259 |
| 12 | Scott McLaughlin | 259 |
| 13 | Santino Ferrucci | 248 |
| 14 | Christian Rasmussen | 239 |
| 15 | Josef Newgarden | 232 |
| 16 | Kyffin Simpson | 231 |
| 17 | Conor Daly | 215 |
| 18 | Alexander Rossi | 214 |
| 19 | Graham Rahal | 213 |
| 20 | Marcus Ericsson | 200 |
| 21 | Nolan Siegel | 181 |
| 22 | Louis Foster | 172 |
| 23 | Robert Shwartzman | 168 |
| 24 | Callum Ilott | 163 |
| 25 | Sting Ray Robb | 144 |
| 26 | Devlin DeFrancesco | 133 |
| 27 | Jacob Abel | 100 |
| 28 | Takuma Sato | 36 |
| 29 | Helio Castroneves | 20 |
| 30 | Ed Carpenter | 16 |
| 31 | Jack Harvey | 12 |
| 32 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | 10 |
| 33 | Kyle Larson | 6 |
| 34 | Marco Andretti | 5 |
Alex Palou has prolonged his lead on the entrance of the championship standings after his eighth win in 2025 IndyCar season as he makes his cost to turn out to be the motive force with essentially the most wins in a IndyCar season.
Sitting on a lofty 590 factors, his hole over second place Pato O’Ward is now 121 factors eradicating O’Ward’s good work in Toronto. Though he began in second, O’ward slipped down the order within the center stint of the race. He recovered to fourth total however the end result has considerably damage his championship hopes.
Palou might have completed second in each race to O’Ward after Toronto and nonetheless received the championship. With this end result, O’Ward’s latest hopes that he might turn out to be the 2025 world champion could possibly be seen as quick lived.
Scott Dixon has moved to 3rd within the championship after Kyle Kirkwood continues to have a attempting finish to his season.
The one different winner this season till Dixon received in Mid-Ohio, Kirkwood has slowly slipped down the championship standings in the previous few races.
Initially thought-about Palou’s fundamental rival, his poor race in Laguna Seca has appears to have written him off fully for one more yr.
Kirkwood completed sixteenth after he shunted Rinus VeeKay at Flip 3 and despatched the Dutch driver flying off the monitor.
Sitting on 377 factors, Dixon’s fifth place end places him on a complete of 392 factors.
Dixon began the race in nineteenth and, via a intelligent technique to pit early which was helped by Cautions, he jumped his means via the sphere and virtually beat O’Ward.
Though Christian Lundgaard stays fifth after his second place end, Kirkwood may start to fret that he might shut in on him within the ultimate levels of the season with solely 20 factors separating the 2.
Colton Herta’s seventh has moved the Andretti driver handed Marcus Armstrong into seventh whereas Josef Newgarden has moved himself into fifteenth.
Newgarden overtook Kyffin Simpson within the standings who punted Felix Rosenqvist off the monitor within the opening of the race.
The end result has moved Simpson from 14th to sixteenth.