Indianapolis Motor Speedway has unveiled a fleet of specially prepped 2025 Chevy Silverado 1500 RST pickup trucks and 2025 Chevy Corvette convertibles this week in anticipation of the upcoming 2025 Indianapolis 500. The trucks are equipped with a number of unique features and will be driven throughout Central Indiana to build excitement for the race, which is slated to kick off on May 25th.
The fleet of Indy 500-themed pickups includes 39 identical examples built as Festival Event Vehicles, continuing a tradition that has been ongoing since the ‘60s. Every example in this year’s Festival Event Vehicles fleet hails from the RST trim level and is finished in Summit White Tintcoat paint (paint code GAZ), paired with a Jet Black leather interior colorway (RPO code H0Y). The trucks also ride on 22-inch High-Gloss Black-Painted aluminum wheels (RPO code SGM). The trucks have dual green stripes with gold borders and custom Indianapolis 500 graphics on the doors, with bright white lettering proudly displaying “Indy 500” on the doors.
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Under the hood, each of the 2025 Festival Event Vehicles is equipped with the naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 L87 gasoline engine, rated at 420 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque, mating to the GM 10-speed automatic transmission. There’s also a dual active exhaust system with sport mode.
In addition to the 2025 Chevy Silverado Festival Event Vehicles, a fleet of 2025 Chevy Corvette Stingray Festival Event Vehicles will also be making their way around Indiana. They have essentially the same aesthetic as the trucks: Arctic White paint (paint code G8G), Gloss Black forged aluminum wheels (QE5), and the same stripe and graphics package.
“The tradition of providing Festival Event Vehicles is a hallmark in the countdown to the Month of May and the Indianapolis 500,” Chevrolet motorsports strategic planning and operations manager Alyssa Haba said. “Seeing these Silverados on the road throughout Central Indiana will embody the passion Chevrolet, IMS, and the 500 Festival have for the Indianapolis 500.”
The 2025 Indy 500 marks the 109th running of the iconic motorsport event. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was built in 1909 and includes four banked turns of identical dimensions and four straights, including two long straights and two short chutes. Penske Racing’s Josef Newgarden will race as the defending back-to-back winner of the 2023 and 2024 Indy 500.
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Hope the Silverado’s 6.2 make it around the track without spinning a rod.
The Camaro made a way better festival car. GM thinks everybody wants a C8, not me.
remember when pace cars had special colors (1995, 1998, etc) now they just put stickers on them
Nicholas I remember the the 1998 Purple Corvette Indy Pace car with the yellow wheels I looked like that car wanted to celebrate.. now our world is just black and white and dark colors! You’d think that in the the twenty first century in 2025 that with the cost of cars we’d be able to get/buy any paint color we would like to buy and that goes for the interior to I’m sick and tired of every new car model having a black, grey, tan, or some shade of brown interior! With the price of vehicles now and in the future I think the customer should be able to choose what color interior they want. Hey I mean they did this on luxury cars like Cadillac, Lincoln, Buick, Oldsmobile, Mercury even the Corvette…well that the Corvette still has a somewhat different interior. I think you get my point.
This year’s pace vehicles look like L.A.P.D. cars.
What? They don’t want to parade out a fleet of Blazer EV SSs?