Alex Palou has received the 2024 NTT IndyCar Collection championship.
Settled on the Massive Machine Music Metropolis Grand Prix at Nashville Superspeedway, the 27-year-old from Spain joins an unique group of those that’ve received three or extra IndyCar titles, led by A.J. Foyt with seven, Scott Dixon with six, Mario Andretti, Sebastien Bourdais and Dario Franchitti with 4, and now Palou who has three together with Jimmy Bryan, Ted Horn, Rick Mears, Louis Meyer, Al Unser and Bobby Rahal.
Palou’s identify has additionally been added to a really unique group of drivers to safe three titles in 4 years with Bourdais (2004-07), Bryan (1954, 1956-57), Foyt (1960-61, 1963-64), Franchitti (2009-11), and Mears (1979, 1981-82).
Palou’s Astor Cups span 2021, 2023, and 2024, and with teammate Dixon’s championship in 2020, his Ganassi crew has claimed 4 titles in 5 seasons. Palou’s latest crown is the sixteenth for Ganassi for the reason that crew’s formation.
The championship battle between Palou and Workforce Penske’s Will Energy was turned on its head on lap 12 when Energy reported his lap belt had come undone. He’d pit and lose 5 laps as his No. 12 Chevy pit crew fought to re-attach the principle harness that holds drivers into the automotive. Palou improved from his Twenty fourth-place beginning spot and was aggressive all through the day on his technique to changing into IndyCar’s latest champion with an Eleventh-place end.
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