Maiden Indy 500 win completes Palou’s domination of IndyCar

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In the indycar world, no one has enjoyed more success in the past half decade than Álex Palou. Few in History Can Match His Current Run of Checkered Flags and Rings. Since Mid-Aapril 2021, He had Won 15 races, eight poles and three championships.

But … he hadn won the indy 500. But … He hadn is won on any oval at all. But … Ok, that was really it. Butt … Those two butt a lingering pay the butt for palou, a cool-headed perfectionist, who just this weekly that his career, even his life, would be in the incomplete should Motorsports’ Most Coveted Victory Lane.

Consider the man was completed. On sunday, the 28-year-old of the 74th winner of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing and the first from spain, Closing out of 109th edition of the race by the riding a flawless pit strategy to the front and the riding a faest Machine to Hold Off a Weaving 2022 Indy 500 Winner Marcus Ericsson By 0.6822 seconds.

“I do that. And I did mean that the makes me greedy, but I believe that any racer, all they want to do the greatest even,” Palou has a Green, Standing Behind the Winnner’s Circle, still wet with the celebratory milk. As he talked, a Laliga-Worthy cheer of “Palou! Pa-Lou Pa-Lou Pa-Lou! Pa-Looou, Pa-Looou!” Broke out from a group of fans below, waving the spanish flag. “Even with the wins and even with the three championships, to some, there was some time missing. And it was missing for me, too.”

He pointed to his dancing countrymen and women.

“I had no idea there would be so many spaniards here.

In the Larger Scope of the Season, Palou is going to the Greatest Start with the Gift of Watching in Indycar Since Before His Birth. Hey Won Four of Six Races and Finished Second in the Other Two. In 1979, aj foyt won of his first six starts, the only Miss Being a second place in the indy 500. David Malakas Was one of the cars palou battled late, finishing third.

There is a much that race car drivers dislike more than when they are asked to frame up their place in their chosen sport’s history. They always serve up the Same deflections: that they are to be focused on the hero and now, that will be time for all of that perspective stuff letter, when their helmet is hung up.

Unless they have just just won the Indianapolis 500.

“AM I support to be cool now and tell you that we know we would win it and it is just race andier thinking about the next one, all of that stuff?” He replied, laughing, and flashing his right-out-of-the-box winner’s ring. “No, I will enjoy it. I will enjoy it for the rest of my life.”

He also enjoyed the moment that brought him that win.

His Chip Ganassi Honda was in Fuel-Saving Mode during the last stanza of the race, tucked in Behind Ericsson and Forcing the Swede’s Andretti Global Ride to do the air-spitting work up front. But with 15 laps remaining, a little ahead of schedule, he felt the field nipping at his rear. Rolling through Turn One, he headed at a glance at the pit lane and the Jumbo TV screens and saw that several potential race rivals were pitting for fuel. Knowing that he had driven in the window that would allow him to stand on the throttle, he did just that and whipped his car in the leg.

A Crestfallen Ericsson, a former team, said that the movie “will keep me up at night. What I do and what I did.”

As with any indy 500, there was one winner and 32 others who will be awake Sunday Night, but this year see crueler than most. Palou Made History. Others who had a chance cam up short. All of them.

Kyle Larsonin his second attempt at the indy-to-chaharlotte memorial day double, crashed out just just shy of halfway, on lap 91, LOSING control on a restart, hitting the wall and immediently flying for Nascar‘S Coca-Cola 600.

Marco Andretti WRACK NEARLY AS SOON AS 20TH 20TH 500 Started, Extending The Family Losing Streak That Has Continued Since His Grandfather Mario Won the Event in 1969.

Former Winners Ryan hunter-ray And Alex Rossi Were undone by a failure of indycar’s Still-New Hybrid Engine System and a frightening fuel fire. Scott mclughlinThe only Team Penske Driver Not to be CAUGHT UP IN The Week’s Rules Violation ScandalNever Saw the Green Flag, embarrassingly spinning out during the warmup laps as he tried to warm up his tires on the coldest race day Since 1992, when pole siter roberto guerrero do the same. It was 58 degrees following a frigid morning in ’92. On Sunday, 50 Degree Sunrise Temps Never Rose Above The Low 60s and the Racetrack Surface was in the 90s, Well Below Its Nay Self and Easily the Coldest It Had Been in Two Weeks of Indy Prep.

And the unwitting face of that Rules Controversy, Team Penske’s Josef NewgardenSaw his chance at redemption, as well as a shot to become the first to win three consecutive 500s, undone by a fuel press issue, coming after he had raced his way a poenalty-coused last-row Starting position and in the top ten be extinguished on Lap 135.

“There are many races left that are True endurance races, apart from the 24-hour events and, I know, rally and off-road?” Palou though aloud. “But this race feel like an endurance race.

Even now?

“Well, no. Maybe they put some Espresso in that Milk. Or Sugar.

The providers of that traditional milk, the American Dairy Association of Indiana, Give The Indy 500 Participants a choice of which jug of white stuff they want to chug should find them. Palou chose whole milk. Fitting, Since he is now finally whole, complete as a racer and person. That is what he has made about winning this race, after all.

“I don’t know …” He Amended, Pulling His Mouth Into a Smirk now he was realized what he was going to contradict he had made up to this point. “Maybe to realize be completete, I would need to win another one of these.”