PORTLAND, Ore. — Alex Palou is a two-time IndyCar champion with Chip Ganassi Racing following a dominant run Sunday at Portland World Raceway.
Palou earned his 5th win of the season to fasten up the identify with one weekend too much within the 17-race agenda. It’s the first date in IndyCar the championship has been settled earlier than the finale because the overdue Dan Wheldon received in 2005.
Palou began the race with a comfy issues supremacy over Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Scott Dixon, the one driving force mathematically eligible to problem the Spaniard for the identify. Nevertheless it didn’t subject what Dixon did within the race as a result of if Palou podiumed, the championship can be over.
He did way over podium at Portland.
Palou led 69 of the 110 laps to attain a decisive victory over runner-up Felix Rosenqvist, who completed 5.4353 seconds again. Dixon, the six-time IndyCar champion, completed 3rd.
It’s the second one identify in 3 seasons for Palou, who received each titles using for Ganassi. He used to be meant to release Ganassi on the finish of the season for a proceed to Arrow McLaren Racing, the place he used to be additionally McLaren’s check and conserve Components One driving force.
However Palou knowledgeable McLaren terminating year he’s no longer shifting to the workforce, and McLaren has filed go well with in the UK in search of a minimum of $20 million in damages and recoupment of cash already complex to Palou.
