Scott McLaughlin's 2025 Indy 500 crash was 'worst moment of my life.' He's back to change narrative
Penske driver Scott McLaughlin crashed before he started the Indy 500 last year. He hasn’t ’let go’ of the incident, but he’s refined because of it.
INDIANAPOLIS — Penske’s Scott McLaughlin walks out of the Team Penske garage and immediately addresses last year’s debacle. McLaughlin approached late May 2025 with hope. A championship was in sight.
But then his world came crumbling down. The Indiana Pacers had rallied from a 14-point deficit with 3:14 left in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the New York Knicks . McLaughlin, a lifelong Knicks fan, still remembers Tyrese Haliburton's miraculous shot that left him pissed on that May 21 night.
Four days later, at the Indy 500, Indiana would lend him another blow. He’ll talk about that soon. The Knicks are back in the conference finals this season and are too good a topic for the New Zealand native.
So much so that McLaughlin is unbothered by the rain falling on him during the minute walk from the Penske garage to the team’s refreshments room on Legend’s Row at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. McLaughlin reaches the room, takes a seat and leans back in a black stack-table side chair. He’s now talking about growing up in New Zealand and moving to Australia when he was 9.
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