Three-time indyCar champion and present championship chief, Alex Palou, has shared that he believes it was his mistake misplaced him the race.
Sat on pole at the beginning of the Mid-Ohio race, Palou led comfortably for majority of the race however a late mistake out of Flip 9 onto the grass allowed his Chip Ganassi teammate, Scott Dixon, to go previous and take the lead.
Dixon had grow to be an outdoor likelihood for the win after he determined to go for a two-stop technique. Nonetheless, it had grow to be clear that Palou’s tempo was an excessive amount of for Dixon to compete with.
Nonetheless, it appeared to be even an excessive amount of for Palou himself and Dixon used his expertise to defend off the Spaniard as soon as previous for the final remaining laps of the race.
Talking afterwards, Palou rued: “[It] was only a silly mistake actually. Mistake on my half.
“Everyone did a tremendous job on pit stops and methods [and] we had been operating actually good however simply misplaced it a little bit bit on entry after which sort of couldn’t get the ability occurring.
“It sucks, it hurts rather a lot clearly [but] it’s nonetheless a very good day but it surely hurts to lose it like that. At the very least we obtained it within the crew to allow them to really feel proud about their work.”
Dixon’s win meant that he was third totally different winner of the 2025 season however extra importantly that Palou’s mistake did not lose Chip Ganassi the general win.
Though Palou will probably be aggravated on the mistake, he nonetheless walked away from the weekend with a internet achieve within the championship on his nearest rival, Kyle Kirkwood.
Behind the wheel of the Andretti, Kirkwood struggled to match Palou’s tempo all weekend and was knocked out of qualifying by Chip Ganassi driver, Kyffin Simpson.
Beginning seventh on the grid, Kirkwood dropped to eighth general making Mid-Ohio one to neglect for the American but additionally the start of the tip of his championship hopes.
Beneath 100 factors to Palou earlier than Mid-Ohio, the hole has opened to 113 factors between the 2 drivers giving the sensation that every one Palou must do is hold it straight.
Nonetheless, as in the present day confirmed, Palou does not drive with warning.
