An NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship cannot be won in the season’s first two races. Or can it? History says yes.
Since 1979, seven of the eight drivers who captured the season’s first two races went on the hoist the championship trophy. The most recent was Scott Dixon, who in 2020 won the first three races en route to his sixth series title.
Now Alex Palou has a chance to go wire to wire, and his hold on the points lead might be the tightest yet. Reaching victory lane in Sunday’s The Thermal Club INDYCAR Grand Prix earned the Spaniard a 39-point lead on the field, and unlike Dixon, who jumped to a 29-point lead by winning the first two races of 2020, he won’t have to work through an Indianapolis 500 offering…