Alex Palou calls IndyCar at Barber win ‘prob...

Will anybody be capable of cease Alex Palou in IndyCar this yr? It would not look potential in the mean time after the driving force of the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing automotive scored a powerful victory within the Kids’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park, ending 16 seconds forward of the runner-up Arrow McLaren No. 7 pushed by Christian Lundgaard.

Palou started constructing on his beautiful efficiency after profitable the pole place on Saturday, and drove a perfect caution-free race on Sunday en route to his 14th IndyCar Series win, and his third in 4 races in 2025 — a season wherein his worst end result continues to be a second-place end in final month’s spherical at Lengthy Seaside.

“It is most likely my greatest race or my greatest weekend in IndyCar, not solely in IndyCar. After I say IndyCar, (I imply) it might be like my profession”, Palou stated through the post-race press convention.

“Getting the pole when it was every thing so tight, getting it on the final second, after which at the moment the truth that we needed to run used tires which might be used from qualifying, they don’t seem to be in good situation. They’re higher than primaries, however I believe all people that was on the Quick Six was in a small drawback than all people else To nonetheless be capable of preserve efficiency, then additionally to do it on the blacks, on the primaries, was nice. Yeah, truthfully I felt it was most likely one in every of my greatest races”, he added.

Whereas he talked about proper after the checkered flag that the race felt “a bit lonely,” Palou emphasised the challenges he confronted throughout his Sunday afternoon drive and why it was nonetheless very tough to perform his feat at a monitor as demanding as Barber.

“It was extra bodily than anything. Like, we at all times know that Barber might be one of many extra bodily tracks that we have now. In all probability, yeah, I would say it is probably the most bodily demanding for the drivers. Particularly at the moment, as a result of we had no cautions, we needed to go as quick as we might. We did not actually have a lot tire deg, so that you needed to push,” he defined.

“Bodily it was powerful. But additionally the focus, it is at all times tough, proper? It is a lengthy race. It is powerful. You push as exhausting as you possibly can, however the automotive would not prefer it in direction of the tip of the tire life.”

Because it stands, Palou left Barber with a 60-point cushion over Lundgaard and appears unstoppable, however he isn’t taking his wonderful second within the IndyCar Collection with no consideration.

“I do not suppose I am in a standard place. I am conscious that I am very fortunate to be within the place I am in at the moment, to be surrounded by an amazing staff, to have the ability to compete for wins each single weekend. Yeah, I do not know the way lengthy that is going to final, however hopefully it may be a very long time.

The 2025 IndyCar season continues subsequent weekend with the Sonsio Grand Prix on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway highway course, a spot the place Palou already has two wins, together with final time from pole, and he has no plans to cease.

“Yeah, truthfully Indy highway course we have been actually, actually robust there previously. Hopefully we will keep our efficiency there. It is at all times powerful there. I would say it is the hardest place as a result of for some motive all people has automotive there. It’s important to work so exhausting to get into the quick 12. The margins are nearly nothing, like half a second, 1/tenth of a second. The identical to get the pole or to remain in entrance. It is powerful. Hopefully we will proceed with the shape we have now had to this point this yr.