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ESP · Born 1997

Álex
Palou

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Biography

Álex Palou was born on 1 April 1997 in Sant Antoni de Vilamajor, Spain, and started karting in 2003. In 2012 he won the KF3 title in the WSK Euro Series and finished runner-up to George Russell in the CIK-FIA European Championship. He moved up to the Euroformula Open with Campos Racing in 2014, won three races and finished third overall. He then raced for Campos in GP3 in 2015 and 2016. In 2015 he won at Abu Dhabi, becoming the first Spaniard to win a race in the series.

In 2017 he contested three rounds of the World Series Formula V8 3.5 for Teo Martín Motorsport, taking three poles and a win to finish tenth. He also entered two Formula 2 rounds for Campos and scored five points. In Japanese Formula 3 he won three races and finished third in the championship. In 2018 he took seven podiums with Hitech Bullfrog GP and ended the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in seventh. In 2019 he raced in Japan, in Super GT's GT300 class and in Super Formula for TCS Nakajima Racing. In Super Formula he won from pole at Fuji and finished third in the standings.

Palou made his IndyCar debut in 2020 with Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh and took his first podium at Road America. From 2021 he drove for Chip Ganassi Racing. He won his first IndyCar race at Barber, finished second in the Indianapolis 500 and clinched the title in the Long Beach finale. In 2022 he finished fifth in the standings and won the finale at Laguna Seca. In 2023 he took pole for the Indianapolis 500 at a record speed and secured the championship at Portland with a race to spare. He won the title again in 2024. In 2025 he won the Indianapolis 500, the first Spaniard to do so, and added another championship. In 2026 he wrapped up the title at Milwaukee.

In Formula One, Palou was a test and reserve driver for McLaren. In 2022 he tested the MCL35M at Barcelona and the Red Bull Ring alongside Pato O'Ward. He took part in a free practice session at the 2022 United States Grand Prix. For 2023 he was named the team's reserve driver. He also tested at the Hungaroring alongside Oscar Piastri. He never started a Grand Prix.

Source: Wikipedia, “Álex Palou”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.