IndyCar news, notes and results from Indianapolis: Palou's fifth career NTT IndyCar Series win comes in GMR Grand Prix at Indianapolis.
Alex Palou, In his final season with Chip Ganassi Racing before he’ll shift to Arrow McLaren Racing—either staying in IndyCar or moving to Formula 1—Palou looked like anything but a lame duck on Saturday.
The Spanish-born driver earned his fifth career IndyCar win—all on street or road courses—in one of the most dominant fashions the series has seen in a long time. It’s the biggest “one that got away” thus far for Palou in his three-year IndyCar career. It’s also the one smudge on his 2021 championship-winning season.
Palou still thinks he could have beaten eventual winner Helio Castroneves, who became the fourth driver in history to earn four Indy 500s. “We'll keep working. We'll keep digging. Hopefully it comes. Yeah, it's the big one that I'm waiting for, obviously without forgetting about the other ones. This means a lot today. I'm only focused on the GMR GP today. When it comes on Monday, I'll be thinking on the Indy 500.”O'Ward Leads the Charge for Arrow McLaren
“The guys gave us a great race car. We were kind of just running our own race today. We were there fighting with Lundgaard and all of us teammates. Once I got clear, I had to minimize the gap I had to Alex, but I think they were very strong today. We were just hanging on there at the end, trying not to destroy our reds.”
“The fact that Arrow McLaren got three cars in the top five with this field, it’s a big confidence boost going into the most important race of the year,” Rossi said. “The pace in the car is there. It’s a real lovely race car to drive but we have to learn to extract a little bit more out of it.”How about a little Danish with your coffee?
He really hoped Saturday would have given him that elusive first career win, but his performance nonetheless gives him great confidence heading into the 500.
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