street. Petersburg, Florida – do not engrave Alex PaloName in 2025 Indycar The championship cup so far.
Yes, he led 26 rolls on his way to victory on Sunday afternoon The opening of the Indycar Grand Prix season.
Yes, through the finish line 2.8 seconds before his teammate Scott Dixon and 6.2 seconds before Joseph New Corgo.
And yes, he already has three championship prizes, including 2023 and 2024 episodes.
“It makes it look easy, right?” The owner of the team, Chib Janasi, said. “It makes it look easy. Don’t sweat.”
So, in a world where excessive reaction to mathematical results is a favorite hobby, which is not ready to wipe the Spaniard as a 2025 hero.
His rival definitely (and expected) is not.
“It is the first round.”. “Let’s see how things go.”
Negarden felt he could win but had fuel problems.
“We only had fuel errors twice,” said Negarden, who ran out in the final roll.
His teammate Dickson knew what he needs to overcome Palu on Sunday after Dixon He could not hear his crew telling him When he wanted to incite – and incite a roll late than what the crew wanted.
“Get a working radio,” said Dixon, champion of the six times on how to overcome Palu. “It will be good.”
Alex Palo in St. Petersburg’s victory: “Very happy because we got this 10!”
Palo knows that he is only the first race and everything is well for him on Sunday. But this is not a coincidence. The results of the previous road/street are the second, fourth, second, first and fourth.
“We have always fought here for some reason, and now we have made us feel that what I need and what we need as drivers to pay and extract 100 percent.”
“However, I do not think this is translated into another track because in the past we were fighting here but not in other places. I do not think what we learned here can take it to it [the next street course at] Long Beach. “
Although he felt better than in the past, Newgarden indicated that he ranked third even with errors.
“You have such errors and is still in third place, I think it is a great day in several ways,” Nigarden said. “It is really happy to go out here with points. It is clear that there was a lot that could be.”
While he said he was really happy, Newgarden’s behaviors showed that he was disappointed. Dixon was not floating on the words.
“I am very angry,” Dickson said. “We had a good race and we didn’t do it. Don’t feel satisfied.”
This is a typical race. There is a winner and the rest of the field feels that the losers, especially those who believe that their lack of victory could have been prevented.
This is where the Palu team flourishes. Certainly, everyone is making mistakes, but Ganassi indicated that Palu’s timing stands as the race decisions and strategies are taken “they have all the stars on them. In terms of strategy, race contact, and communication-there is no better one of the ten men.”
Gansei said that Dixon and Kevin Simpson had a job to do it to catch up with the Blu.
“I don’t know that the winner of the race one makes you [the favorite]”We are definitely preferred the season until next week or even the next race. What is more happy with it is every season, every team that works on their cars,” Gansei said.
“You are not sitting flat throughout the winter. You are working on your cars trying to improve them. I think our cars are better than they were a year ago – at least here in St. Pitt.”
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Bob Pockrass Nascar and Indycar cover for Fox SPORTS. He spent contracts for motorsport coverage, including more than 30 Ditona 500, with a difference in ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR SCENE and (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow it on Twitter @Bobukras.
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