🗣️'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 ⬇️
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou has revealed that he had no radio communication during his final lap near miss with team-mate Marcus Armstrong before his Road America IndyCar victory.Palou had a healthy 5s lead over Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden going on to the final lap but came across Armstrong on the approach to The Kink – one of the fastest and most fearsome corners in American motorsports.
Fortunately, he was told over the radio that Palou was approaching, whereas the Spaniard had no radio communications at that part of the track, before sweeping around the outside of Armstrong. “Well, it's very hard [to hear], so we decide not to talk on those corners to avoid misunderstandings. They couldn't really tell me.“Yeah, [it was] quite on the edge there. Honestly, having a good five-second gap allowed me to just take it easy and overtake him.”“It looked fairly sketchy there, but I knew he was coming,” said Armstrong, who finished 24th.
“It wasn’t an ideal way to finish the race but it’s something I’ll look back on learn from for next time.”The Kiwi rookie, who has a best finish of eighth from his six outings to date in the Ganassi car he shares with Takuma Sato, drove a storming first half of the race to run with the frontrunners. This included moving eighth on the grid to third on the opening lap.“Someone braked too late in front of me [at Turn 1] and I picked up the pieces, so I was actually trying to be conservative.
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