Will Kyle Larson Attempt Indy 500-Coke 600 Double Again?

Kyle Larson mulls over if another Double at the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 is worth doing.

May 27, 2025 by Kyle McFadden

Twice now Kyle Larson has attempted The Double. Twice he's walked away harboring overwhelming disappointment from the unfulfilled mission.

There's a reason Tony Stewart is the only driver to have completed all 1,110 miles of The Double — the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. And the 32-year-old has a better understanding of that, so much that he may never attempt the ambitious endeavor again.

"The Double is just a tough undertaking," Larson told NBC Sports after Sunday's DNF at the Coke 600 after he also failed to finish the Indy 500 earlier in the day. "The window of time is too tight. Even if I didn’t wreck, I don’t think I would have made it here on time and probably would have had to end that race short anyways.

"So I don’t really think it’s worth it. But I would love to run the Indy 500 again. Just doing the Double I think is just logistically too tough.”

Granted, Larson issued those words fresh off his 37th-place finish in the Coke 600 where he crashed twice — first while leading on lap 43 and then on lap 245 when Daniel Suarez collided into him spinning across the track — and prefaced that with "it’s so fresh right now I don’t really have a good answer for you."

A four-hour rain delay last year at the Indy 500 derailed Larson's logistics to start the Coca-Cola 600, which was curtailed because of rain and eventually ended earlier on lap 245 of 400.

Larson, of course, wanted to finish his two-year contract with Arrow McLaren Racing at the Indy 500 in 2025, but then another rain delay caused Sunday's Indy 500 to start roughly an hour later, triggering a domino effect of misfortune.

Under a lap-18 caution period, the 21st-starting Larson dropped from 19th to 31st because he stalled his car on pit road. After climbing his way to 18th on lap 91, he downshifted at the wrong time entering turn two and lost control of his race car, causing the fifth caution of the day.

Between 91 laps complete at the 2.5-mile IMS and 245 laps logged at the 1.5.-mile Charlotte oval, Larson's total on-track mileage for the day fell way short at 595.

Ahead of Monday night's Indy 500 banquet, FOX Sports asked Larson again if he's thought more about his Double prospects moving forward. His answer remained relatively the same.

"I haven't really thought about it too much," Larson said. "I think The Double is just kind of hard to do logistically, like after thinking about it more — not even thinking about it more, just realizing after the race I wouldn't have been able to finish the whole thing. It's just the windows are too tight so there's a lot that goes into it, and I don't think The Double would happen again. But hopefully someday I can run the Indy 500 again. I definitely want to do that."