Keanu Reeves Drives Fans Crazy as Actor Makes Professional Racing Debut at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Mar. 15, 2025

Keanu Reeves at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Oct. 5, 2024.Photo:AP Photo/Darron Cummings

AP Photo/Darron Cummings

Keanu Reevesis off to the races!

TheJohn Wickactor, 60, made his professional racing debut on Saturday, Oct. 5, at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway, theAssociated Pressreported. Reeves qualified 31st out of 35 cars for the Toyota GR Cup, a series which takes place alongside the Indy 8 Hour event.

Reeves, who ranked as high as the 21st car at one point in the race, is set to compete again on Sunday, Oct. 6.

He drove a red No. 92 BRZRKR car, which references his graphic novelThe Book of Elsewhere, which was published in July.

Keanu Reeves drives during the GR Cup Series in Indianapolis on Oct. 5, 2024.AP Photo/Darron Cummings

This wasn’t the first time Reeves got behind the wheel for an auto-racing competition. In 2009, he participated — and won — the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach’s celebrity race, AP reported.

The actor is apparently a big fan of racing. In July, he and his girlfriendAlexandra Grantattended the final dayof the MotoGP Liqui Moly Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland in Germany.

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He also attended the Formula 1 British Grand Prixqualifying race in July 2022. “It was wet, but it was thrilling,” he said about the event at the time, perExpress.

“It was absolutely amazing to be that close. Silverstone and rain, perfect,” he added. “I think being that close to it, just seeing the speed and the way that they’re going at the turns and exiting the turns is something unbelievable.”

Keanu Reeves at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Oct. 5, 2024.AP Photo/Darron Cummings

TheMatrixactor also hosted and producedBrawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story, a four-part documentary about the 2009 Formula 1 World Championship, which is available to stream on Hulu and Disney+.

source: people.com