A few months ago in an interview, Álex Palou affirmed that the train of the Formula 1 It had already passed to him. The argument had all the logic. Why pursue a future without guarantees in the queen specialty of motor racing, when in the United States things are going very well on a professional level. He wins races without stopping, he has the American amateur in his pocket, he is doing well on an economic level and even enjoys freedom to make cameos in other competitions. But The same is formula 1 that cannot be allowed to dole from Álex.
That Álex Palou is the great dominator of the present era of the Indycar championship is obvious. Since his debut he has won all the championships in which he has participated less two. In fact, he would also have won the 2023 of not having had the legal brain in which he was involved with McLaren. But 2025 is a twist especially the above. Catalan seems to play a different sport from that of its competitors. The superiority and domain they exercise are overwhelming.
The data speak for themselves. Three races won of four possible this season, decimocuarta victory in the championship and a fact that eloquently illustrates the superiority over their rivals: the Gerundense reached in Barber the number a thousand leading a race, a milestone achieved in his participation number 80 in the championship. To put perspective, It is a milestone achieved fourteen races before Scott Dixon, who with six titles under his credit is one of the great specialty at the historical level.
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You have to go back many years to find a pilot who will dominate the championship with such insolence. The funny thing is that the only resemblance in history are two pilots who, like Álex, piloted to Chip Ganassi Racing And they had a Honda engine: Alex Zanardi and Juan Pablo Montoya. And both the first and the second ended in formula 1 because it was understood as a waste that such talents were not enjoyed outside North America.
It is clear that chip ejosi has smell to identify talent. His team has always been one of the best with Andretti and Penske, but it has always been his pilots who have put the cherry icing. Zanardi and Montoya left Indycar and went to Formula 1 signing for Williams. The first failed and the second triumphed. The low level of Zanardi revived the prejudices existing since the years of Michael Andretti, about the low level of the championship, but Montoya’s successes showed that it was not the case.
Alex Zanardi reached a very bad time in Williams, found a change of tire regulation that was choked from the beginning. And probably also, the Italian underestimated the challenge and confident in his American successes, he perhaps did not put the monkey work as much as he should have done it. Nor were the beginnings of Juan Pablo Montoya in Formula 1 that was widely surpassed by Ralf Schumacher The same pilot who had previously crushed Zanardi.
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But once Juan Pablo Montoya took the pulse to the tires and the reactions of Formula 1, he became the only pilot to give Michael Schumacher firm from time to time. In those years, The German dominated the specialty with the same iron hand as at present Álex Palou He does it in the Indycar championship. Together, it is obvious that the Formula 1 grill has more talent than Indycar, but not to underestimate Palou’s rivals.
Felum Ill, Scott McLaughlin, Pato O’ward, Felix Rosenqvist or Robert Schwartzmann and some more pilots have not reached Formula 1, but in the lower categories, they fought from you to you with the new talent litter of the Oscar Piastri, Ollie Bearman or Franco Colapint. You just have to see how a former formula 1 like Marcus Ericsson always wanders on the middle grill to realize that, on the other side of the Atlantic, Álex Palou also has rivals of many carats.
That is why the superiority shown last Sunday by Álex Palou in the Alabama state circuit can be misleading. Scott McLaughlin who completed the podium behind Christian Lundgaard, defined it very simply: “When you see someone like Alex in their fullness, the only thing we have left to the rest is to look and try to do our best. I always have the feeling that we can make things difficult, but if you continue to execute the races as it does, because we have no other ”
