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Palou gets his Motown groove on

INDYCAR

DETROIT (USA)

4 JUNE

ROUND 7/17

A week after the Indianapolis 500, IndyCar’s Detroit Grand Prix came down to a shootout between two stars from Team Penske and Chip Ganassi Racing. This time, it wasn’t Josef Newgarden and Marcus Ericsson going toe-to-toe, but Will Power and Alex Palou – and Chip got his revenge over his old adversary Roger.

The stage couldn’t have been more different, with Indy’s vast oval giving way to a new 1.645-mile layout around Detroit’s downtown streets, using a couple of small portions from the Formula 1 track of the 1980s.

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