The Hy-Vee Milwaukee Mile 250s delivered plenty of excitement last weekend. Briefly, it seemed that Alex Palou's 54 championship points would turn into a deficit against Will Power, but Power squandered his chances by spinning, leaving the gap now at 33 points. Scott Dixon reached a remarkable milestone: with his 142nd top-three finish, he is now the record holder in this regard! What else stood out? We summarize the race weekend in numbers!

326 - The Saturday race in Milwaukee featured 326 overtakes for position, the most overtakes despite fewer cautions. During the Sunday race, there were 177 overtakes for position.

142 - The second place of Scott Dixon in the Sunday race was his 142nd top-three finish. With this, the now 44-year-old driver holds the top 3-finishes record outright. Until this race, he shared the record with Mario Andretti.

79 - Combining the points scored from both races, Scott McLaughlin performed best: he collected 79 points over the two races! The surprising runner-up was Santino Ferrucci with 65 points. Rinus VeeKay finished ninth in this ranking (tied with Kyle Kirkwood) with 42 points.

39 - Looking at points scored, newly crowned Rookie of the Year Linus Lundqvist was the best-performing rookie: with a sixth place on Saturday and a twentieth on Sunday (after a DNF), he earned 39 points.

33 - Thanks to Will Power's spin, the damage from the technical problems for Alex Palou wasn't too bad: his championship lead shrunk from 54 points to 33 points this past weekend — still a comfortable margin heading into the season finale in Nashville.

22 - During the Saturday race, Conor Daly nearly achieved the impossible: after starting 25th, he finished third. With 22 positions gained, he was the driver who improved the most. On Sunday, this honor went to Scott Dixon, who started 17th and was flagged second — a gain of 15 places!

12 - For Josef Newgarden, it was a disastrous race weekend with crashes in both races. He scored the fewest points of the entire field: just 12, including one point for pole position and one point for leading the Sunday race — a direct result of Palou's issues; otherwise, he would have missed out on that point too.

9 - Across both races, no fewer than nine different drivers led laps: Scott McLaughlin (165 laps), Pato O'Ward (133 laps), Will Power (73 laps), Colton Herta (52 laps), Alexander Rossi (46 laps), Linus Lundqvist (19 laps), Santino Ferrucci (6 laps), Josef Newgarden (4 laps), and Katherine Legge (2 laps).

6 - Due to cautions, there were many pit stops during the Sunday race. While the winning strategy on Saturday was a four-stop strategy, winner Scott McLaughlin made six pit stops on Sunday!

4 - The most consistently performing driver of the weekend was Santino Ferrucci: he finished both races in fourth place.

3.5 - Due to the many cautions, the Sunday race lasted exactly 3.5 minutes longer than the Saturday race.

3 - A silver lining for Marcus Ericsson: because he crashed on Saturday, he had more new sets of Firestone tires for the Sunday race. He was the only driver who could fit new tires during the final pit stops, allowing him to gain three positions in the last ten laps to finish fifth!

3 - Conor Daly's third place was a historic result for Juncos Hollinger Racing: it was their first-ever podium finish in the IndyCar Series. Before this, the team's best result was fourth place at Laguna Seca earlier this year with Romain Grosjean. For Daly, it was just his second podium in his IndyCar career — his first podium finish was in Detroit in 2016.

3 - The battle for the overall championship will continue until the season's final race, but four championships were already decided last weekend: Linus Lundqvist won Rookie of the Year, Chevrolet took the manufacturers' championship, and the #12 Team Penske crew of Will Power won the Pit Stop Performance championship.

3 - Only three drivers led laps in both races: Scott McLaughlin, Will Power, and Colton Herta.