Could 29 (GMM) Indy 500 winner Alex Palou has dominated himself out of the operating for a swap to Formulation 1.
The 28-year-old is extensively thought of the perfect driver in Indycar proper now, with titles in 2021, 2023 and 2024. Palou flirted with Formulation 1 by way of a McLaren testing deal, however a contract dispute led him to firmly decide to Indycar.
Final Sunday, just a few hours after the chequered flag flew in Monaco, he grew to become the primary Spanish driver to win the Indy 500. Nonetheless, he now admits to the Indianapolis Star newspaper: “(F1) will not be calling me anymore.
“I nonetheless observe it. It’s an enormous sequence. It’s superb. I’m an enormous fan, however I don’t suppose they’re having as a lot enjoyable as I’m having right here,” Palou insisted.
“I solely get pleasure from driving and having enjoyable and being with my folks, so I feel (F1) is the overall reverse.”
Nevertheless, Palou has repeatedly been linked with the all-new American Formulation 1 challenge Cadillac. However he insists that whereas the curiosity in him from F1 has pale, so too has his need to make the swap.
“I don’t wish to depart now,” he stated.
“Even when they are saying ‘No, don’t fear, you’ll be able to come again in a single or two years’, what if instantly everyone seems to be right here and I’m by no means capable of catch again as much as them?
“And it wasn’t in my thoughts final 12 months, and it’s not in my thoughts this 12 months,” Palou stated. “It’s getting much less and fewer and fewer daily, and with this (win), it’s like ‘No, I wish to get one other’.”
Palou’s prize cash for successful the Indy 500 was a powerful $4 million.
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