by eliminating information silos.”

The famed Andretti family has only won the Indianapolis 500 once — a 1969 win by Mario Andretti — and the struggles his sons, nephew and grandson have gone through at the speedway are referred to as “The Andretti Curse.”Armstrong said in addition to the car preparation Meyer Shank Racing had to do, the New Zealand native also had to go through IndyCar’s concussion protocol to even be cleared to race.

Their struggles ultimately benefited Graham Rahal, who was bumped from the field in 2023, but battled all day to finally grab the 30th and final guaranteed spot in Saturday’s session. He had to sit inside his car and wait as Andretti and VeeKay made desperate final runs that could have knocked Rahal out of the field.Instead, they fell short and Rahal breathed a huge sigh of relief.“Two of the guys that ran there at the end, Marco and VeeKay, are two of the guys I respect the most around here. Both guys have been extremely fast, extremely talented at this place, and so you just never know,” Rahal said. “I think we improved our car. This day did not start out well. But we found a lot and I man, that beer is going to taste good tonight.”

The Saturday qualifying session decided the fast 12 that will run again Sunday to set the first four rows and crown the pole-winner. Drivers that qualified in spots 13 through 30 locked in their positions, but the slowest four cars go into a last-chance shootout Sunday to determine the final three spots. One driver will not make the field.The 12 drivers who will try for the pole Sunday are Palou, McLaughlin, Newgarden, Pato O’Ward, Scott Dixon, rookie Robert Shwartzman, David Malukas, Felix Rosenqvist, Takuma Sato, Will Power, Marcus Ericsson and Christian Lundgaard.

The fast 12 fight for the pole comprises of seven former Indy 500 winners and a split of seven Chevrolet drivers and five Hondas.

Track conditions were the worst of the week with heavy wind gusts that affected handling on the cars and played into two frightening crashes: Armstrong’s morning wreck and an even more horrific crash for Colton Herta, who crashed in nearly the same spot as Armstrong in a much during his qualifying attempt.Under that program, asylum seekers would be flown to Rwanda, which would decide whether to grant asylum there.

Under the “return hubs” Starmer is discussing, migrants whose asylum claims are rejected by the U.K. would be sent to a third country to await deportation. A spokesperson for Starmer said the goal is to prevent failed asylum seekers from using stall tactics, such as starting a family in Britain, to prevent being sent back.Migration expert Meghan Benton said there’s a lot of confusion between the different programs set out by the U.K. and other European countries. “There’s a lot of legal and moral differences between them,” Benton, who leads Global Programs at the Migration Policy Institute think tank, said. While the Rwanda deal shifted the U.K.'s responsibility for asylum to a third country, Starmer’s proposal involves people who have exhausted their asylum claims, Benton explained.

Several European countries, including the Netherlands and Sweden, are looking to do the same, Benton added. The “return hubs” concept has also been supported by theas a way to deter irregular migration.