Alex Palou

The 27-year-old from just outside Barcelona, Spain, is the second-youngest INDYCAR driver to win three championships. His back-to-back titles in 2023 and 2024 are the first consecutive wins since Dario Franchitti’s 2009-11 championships, also driving the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda. Palou is the fourth driver to win multiple INDYCAR championships with Chip Ganassi Racing (Scott Dixon; Dario Franchitti; Alex Zanardi).

In 2023, the Spaniard also finished the season with a 3.71 average finishing position, which is the best mark in a single season by any driver since 2006 (Bourdais – 3.64). With five race wins and 10 podiums, Palou became the first driver to clinch the championship before the season finale since series reunification (Bourdais – 2007).

Palou had a breakout season with Chip Ganassi Racing in 2021, scoring three wins and 12 top-10 finishes in route to hoisting the Astor Cup. That included a victory in his first start with Chip Ganassi Racing at Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds, Alabama.

In 2020, Palou scored his first career podium at Road America in his rookie INDYCAR season with Dale Coyne Racing, while also impressing with a seventh-place qualifying effort in his first attempt at the Indianapolis 500.

Prior to making the jump to North American racing, Palou won a Super Formula Championship race in 2019, competed at the All-Japan Formula 3 championship in 2017, recorded his first race in the Formula 3 Series in 2015, and made his debut in open-wheel racing competing in the Euroformula Open Championship in 2014.

Palou spends time away from the track with his wife, Esther, and his daughter, Lucia.

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