Alex Palou picked up right where he left off in 2025, opening the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season with a dominant victory in the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.
Palou won his third consecutive and fourth overall series championship by a whopping 196 points – an advantage of more than three races’ worth of points – last season, and he and Chip Ganassi Racing showed the same swagger on a sun-splashed Sunday in Florida. Palou cruised to his 20th career victory in just his 99th start, driving his No. 10 DHL Chip Ganassi Racing Honda to a 12.4948-second victory over the No. 3 DEX Team Penske Chevrolet of NTT P1 Award winner Scott McLaughlin.
Christian Lundgaard, who started 12th, rallied to complete the…