Can Alex Palou Equal IndyCar History?

Alex Palou, IndyCar

Alex Palou has already had a standout IndyCar season. While a title fight was briefly on between Palou and Pato O’Ward as the gap was 121 points before the race in Portland, issues for Pato, which led him to be eleven laps down and a third for Palou, meant he clinched the title. His third consecutive IndyCar title. His fourth in total.

While he is on his way to making IndyCar history if he could win the next two IndyCar championships, equalling Scott Dixon’s six IndyCar championships, his main competition is A. J. Foyt, who has the most at seven.

And A. J. Foyt is important because he has the most IndyCar wins in a season, at ten.

With two races to go, Alex Palou has eight wins in a season. So, can he equal Foyt?

Even if he cannot, what Alex Palou has achieved this season in terms of wins is a testament to his dominance. In the previous three championships, Palou has won the title with three wins in 2021, five wins in 2023 and three wins in 2024. With eight wins, this result is notably different from that of the typical IndyCar winner.

So, can he?

Anyone who knows anything about IndyCar knows that Alex Palou is a street track and road course expert, winning at tracks like Laguna Seca, Portland, and Road America three times each. But oval tracks like the Milwaukee Mile and the Indy 500 have escaped his grasp in terms of wins until this year, when he finally tasted the glory of milk, experiencing an Indy win.

With this confidence of winning one of motorsports' grand prizes, will that give him confidence in Milwaukee this year?

If it does, then he is well on his way. With the finale of the IndyCar in Nashville, it will be back on solid ground, on a trusted street circuit.

Either way, Alex Palou only has his best performance at Milwaukee in fifth and Nashville, on a different layout, third, so a podium or a second place at either race will prove worthy of the reigning IndyCar championship.

With the Milwaukee Mile this weekend, from August 23rd to 24th, I will be watching to see if Alex Palou can make it to nine, and then ten, but even then, there is always next year. The final race of the IndyCar is on the 30^th to the 31^st of August in Nashville.

Written by Amy Powis (@powisamy_ on Instagram)