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Unstoppable Alex Palou leaves Barber with third IndyCar win of the season
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Unstoppable Alex Palou leaves Barber with third IndyCar win of the season

Motorsports May 4, 2025
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One other caution-less IndyCar race makes it 339 inexperienced flag laps for the reason that final warning at St. Pete, which did not actually pave the way in which for Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou (#10) third win of the season. But it surely definitely could have helped.

The three-time IndyCar championship winner once more demonstrated his personal masterclass of tips on how to personal the IndyCar subject on the Youngsters’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park, ending effectively over 15-seconds forward of the remainder of the sector. In some unspecified time in the future listening to from the crew over the radio: “Every part appears to be like good. Good and clean. Take a drink.”

 

Palou set the tempo from the second the inexperienced flag waved for the beginning, working an virtually unobtainable tempo for the opposite automobiles within the subject, successful straight from pole and making for his second-ever win at Barber, his first win claimed simply 4 years in the past with Chip Ganassi Racing.

“It was the right day. I might say an ideal weekend. First time we have been rocking that quantity 10 HRC livery. I am tremendous happy with all people that has been engaged on the ten automobile and Chip Ganassi Racing and HRC as effectively. Yeah, truthfully it has been only a good day. The automobile was wonderful — tremendous quick, and I simply had a ton of enjoyable. I used to be a bit lonely there, however I cherished it. It was an incredible day.

“I imply, we have at all times been actually good right here. I really like this place, each single lap right here simply feels wonderful in an IndyCar. So yeah, it is gonna be additional particular any further.”

The remainder of the sector, whether or not on primaries or alternates, was left to gamble tire methods — would utilizing the required main set in the beginning of the race get the troublesome tire out of the way in which and permit them to make the most of alternates for higher management and velocity for the remainder of the race? Or would utilizing them within the remaining laps of the race give a bonus over tires that have been hanging by a thread (not actually)?

The place tire technique labored: the handful of drivers who began the race on the black main tires appeared to profit probably the most, with the highest seven automobiles utilizing their primaries both proper in the beginning, or at their second cease. However Alexander Rossi (#20), Kyle Kirkwood (#27), and Christian Rasmussen (#21) guess on the primaries for the top which did not fairly work out strategy-wise, as Rossi defined.

“It is horrible,” the Ed Carpenter Racing driver and Indy 500 winner informed media post-race. “Like, we knew it was going to be dangerous in some unspecified time in the future, however with the place we began, we have been simply attempting to get as a lot monitor place as we may on the alternate tire and construct a sufficiently big hole to the automobiles we have been capable of put them on. On the finish, it was plenty of work to maintain Nolan [Siegel] and Joseph [Newgarden] behind there, however, the crew known as a fantastic race, and so they have been nice in pit lane so I believe that was probably the most we may do on the day.”

Tire technique will hopefully play a extra fascinating position going into Indianapolis subsequent week for the Sonsio Grand Prix the place automobiles will now be required to make the most of two units of alternate and two units of primaries for the race. Qualifying for Indy’s race on the roval kicking off the Month of Might is Friday, Might 9 at 4:30pm EDT, with race day on Sunday, once more at 4:30pm EDT. 

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