They call him 'Perfect Mister' And today it was news that it wasn't. Álex Palou He committed a Error in Curve 9 of the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course When the race was already in his countdown and the Spanish He was going, without brake, towards his seventh triumph of the year.
And it was An error that surprised … even the pilot himself. “It has been A great failure“He excused himself after the race, explaining what happened.” It has not been for anything in particular, I lost the car a little and went to the chips … and goodbye. It has been a big mistake for my part Because the car was incredible and the Pit Stops were the ones we needed to win the race. But the races do not end until they end“He explained with resignation at the press conference after the Grand Prix.
Too much to the limit
Analyzing the situation something more thorough, Palou reached another conclusion of what could have happened at that time: “It was trying to open some hole with Scott (Dixon, the pilot who was chasing him), felt confident with the car … but I lost it. Now I think that Maybe he could have kept something and that it was not necessary to go so the limitbut at that moment you don't feel that you are so at the limit. “
Even so, Palou tried to recover first place… but his car was no longer in optimal conditions: “When I saw a second I knew that had more gasoline and something more than push to pass that he. I tried but I couldn't. Already I was suffering with the rear wheels“, argument.
I tried to go to Dixon, but I couldn't. I was already suffering with the rear wheels
“When you lose hurtsbut I think I will learn from this. He will last me, but We have made a great weekend And we have to be proud of it, “he said, finding comfort in several reasons. “At least We finished first and second and the victory stayed with the team“. That was one of them. But perhaps the most important is the one that refers to the General classification of Indycarin which it has increased, even more, its distance.
Álex Palou (left) on the podium of Mid Ohio, tenth career of the Indycar 2025
Palou is more leader
Son 113 points about Kirkwood and 125 about O'wardtwo distance races. An superhuman difference. “That's why It won't take me for two days, just a couple of hours. Finish second is still a great result: We have touched the victorymade the pole, led a lot of turns, gone quickly all weekend … “
“But we have lost it”he apostated without forgetting the bad taste of the mouth … that maybe arrive as an injured lion to Iowa next weekend. And that will do Álex Palou even more dangerous.
