Biography
At 23, Alex Palou joins Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) for his second season in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES. He will pilot the No. 10 NTT DATA Honda alongside Six-Time and reigning NTT INDYCAR SERIES Champion, Indianapolis 500 and 50-time race winner Scott Dixon, Seven-Time NASCAR Cup Series Champion Jimmie Johnson, Indianapolis 500 Winner, NTT INDYCAR SERIES Champion and 17-time race winner Tony Kanaan, and Marcus Ericsson, for an expanded four-car lineup in 2021.
In 2020, Palou scored his first-career podium at Road America in his rookie NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, while also impressing with a seventh-place qualifying effort in his first attempt at the Indianapolis 500.
Prior to that, Palou won a Super Formula Championship race in 2019, competed at the All-Japan Formula 3 championship in 2017, recorded his first race in the Formula 3 Series in 2015, and made his debut in open-wheel racing competing in the Euroformula Open Championship in 2014.