PALOU IS SASSY AT GANASSI
Reporters, drivers, team owners, race engineers and fans will regularly point out that IndyCar is insanely close, that there are 20 potential winners every weekend and so on. And that’s true. So it’s a measure of Alex Palou’s brilliance in 2021 that he made it look easy, overcame setbacks that were not of his making, and prevailed over a field of aces, including veterans and his fellow Generation Z members. It’s as if he alone was capable of not only understanding the formula for championship glory, but also faithfully following it.
Certainly, Palou carried out to the letter Chip Ganassi’s maxim of, ‘If you can’t be first, be second; if you can’t be second, be third,’ etc. Unless something out of his control put him out, you could count on the Honda-engined #10 Chip Ganassi Racing car to be in the mix for a top-five finish. The 24-year-old Spaniard was in only his second year at this level, yet already he had the consistency of an IndyCar veteran blended with the relentless enthusiasm of youth.
Perhaps primary among Palou’s skill
