Of Course Alex Palou Won The Indycar Sonsio Grand Prix At Indianapolis

Alex Palou isn’t just having a great IndyCar season, he’s having a historic one.

The Chip Ganassi Racing driver won the Sonsio Grand Prix on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course to claim his fourth win in the first five races of the season.

Add his second place finish at Long Beach and he’s the first driver with those results in the top American open wheel series since AJ Foyt in 1979. Foyt is the only one who had a better start to a season with five wins in five races in 1964.

Palou started on pole, but gave up the lead to Graham Rahal in the first turn and settled into second and third for most of the race.

It wasn’t until lap 58 of the 85-lap race that he took it back and he never relinquished it again, setting the fastest lap of the race on lap 74 and pulling away to an easy five-second win ahead of Pato O’Ward, with Will Power, Scott McLaughlin, Scott Dixon and Rahal rounding out the top six.

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“I can not describe the amazing season we had so far, I mean, I owe everything to the team, Chip Ganassi Racing, my teammates and everybody that is working behind the scenes, behind the scenes to make me look so fast on track,” Palou said on Fox after the race.

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IndyCar will be staying put at Indianapolis for the next two weeks, but turning its focus toward the oval for the Indy 500. Practice begins on Tuesday, May 13 ahead of qualifying on May 17 and 18, with the race scheduled to kick off on Sunday, May 25th at Noon EDT.