It looked like Ryan Hunter-Reay might be heading to a second career Indy 500 victory as he was pacing the field past the halfway point of the race. With 30 laps to go, however, he stalled out in the pits and fell all the way to last place among the drivers still out on the track.

Halfway through the race and as of this writing, eight drivers were out of the race but drivers like Josef Newgarden, seeking his third straight Indy 500 win, and Helio Castroneves, seeking his recording-breaking fifth ever Indy 500 win, were still in the mix.

Palou, the 28-year-old Spaniard who won the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, took center stage before the Mets' showdown with the White Sox at Citi Field.

The Indy 500 purse record was broken for the fourth year in a row, with Alex Palou earning $3.8M from a total purse of $20,283,000.

However, as the IndyStar 's Nathan Brown reported Monday, Daly's Indy 500 was actually quite gross, as he unfortunately faced an in-car challenge many (if not, all) drivers dread: having to go to the bathroom during a race.

The Andretti IndyCar team has released a statement after two of its cars were disqualified from the Indianapolis 500. IndyCar confirmed that the No. 27 and 28 of Andretti Global and the No. 90 of PREMA Racing had failed post-race technical inspections. As a result, they were disqualified and each car was slapped with a hefty $100,000 fine.