🗣️'It's pretty wide open still.' Josef Newgarden believes Alex Palou’s huge IndyCar points advantage can still be overhauled in the last nine rounds. Can the Indy 500 winner overturn his 81-point deficit? ⬇️
Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden believes his Chip Ganassi Racing rival Alex Palou’s huge IndyCar points advantage can still be overhauled in the remaining races of the season.Palou scored his third win of the season at Road America on Sunday, extending his lead to 74 points over his team-mate Marcus Ericsson.2021 champion is now 81 points clear of best non-Ganassi driver Newgarden.
Newgarden pointed to Palou’s consistent points scoring, even bouncing back to finish fourth in the Indy 500 after a pitroad collision with Rinus VeeKay put Palou in the wall and broke his front wing – which dropped him to last place for a time.“They've had a good run up to this point, right? They've not had a bad race. I think that's to be expected.“If you look at their story, they've not had one bad race yet.
“Honestly, there's some races coming up now that are still really good for us and we know we're going to have a car and my confidence to fight for wins.”Palou says the experience of winning the championship before gives him more confidence in how to play out the second half of the season.
Ireland Latest News, Ireland Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Palou: Newgarden apologized for Road America IndyCar contact🗣 'Obviously, he didn't give me enough room, but he already apologized' AlexPalou accepts that josefnewgarden didn't mean to squeeze him off track in Sunday's IndyCar race at Road America 👇
Read more »
Palou: Newgarden apologised for Road America IndyCar contact🗣️'Coming from Josef, I know it was not on purpose.' Road America IndyCar winner Alex Palou says runner-up Josef Newgarden has apologised to him for their collision in Sunday’s race ⬇️
Read more »
Palou had no radio comms for “sketchy” last lap IndyCar near miss🗣️'Suddenly I saw a car. I didn't know it was Marcus.' Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou revealed that he had no radio communication during his final lap near miss with team-mate Marcus Armstrong before his Road America IndyCar victory ⬇️
Read more »
Dixon: "Time and a place" for O’Ward IndyCar revengeChip Ganassi Racing\u2019s Scott Dixon says he wasn\u2019t tempted to exact revenge on Pato O\u2019Ward in the closing stages of the Road America IndyCar race.
Read more »
Palou had no radio comms for “sketchy” last lap near miss with team-mate🗣 'Honestly they couldn't tell me because there was no radio' 🙉 AlexPalou had no warning of his last lap Road America IndyCar scare when a team-mate rejoined in front of him after going off, and he had to pass him around the outside of The Kink 👇
Read more »
Souness reveals incredible donation from Man United icon Sir Alex after charity swimGraeme Souness has revealed Sir Alex Ferguson donated £20,000 after the Liverpool legend’s charity swim across the English Channel. The Scotland and Rangers icon has raised more than £1millio…
Read more »