End soap opera Palou with Chip Ganassi Racing renewal

The soap opera starring Alex Palou, the McLaren F1 team and Chip Ganassi Racing in July has come to an end with the announcement on Wednesday that the driver from Sant Antoni de Vilamajor and the Ganassi team will continue together in 2023, with the Catalan will continue together. He will stay one more year in Indy Car and this time he will park the future on the F1 grid.

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The case is in court because the Chip Ganassi Racing team unilaterally announced that it was renewing the driver and he, for his part, denied it and McLaren confirmed. However, after weeks of negotiations and after those from Woking announced Oscar Piastri as Lando Norris’s partner, Palou and Ganassi were doomed to come to terms with each other.

Both will continue to race together in IndyCar in 2023, and Alex has obtained permission from Chip Ganassi to do a Formula 1 test with McLaren, which in principle will be at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, with no confirmed date, and where Colton Herta will go. also present.and Patrick O’Ward.

“I am excited to announce that Chip Ganassi and I have come to an agreement and I will return to the number 10 car next season. I am looking forward to a great 2023,” said Palou in a brief statement through his social networks with a “ Let’s go!!” team reaction.

“I am also grateful for the fact that Chip Ganassi is allowing me to do the Formula 1 test with McLaren outside of my IndyCar commitments. Thanks to Chip, Mike and the whole team for your willingness to work together and for the support of team so that my personal goals throughout this process”, sentenced the only Spanish driver to be crowned in IndyCar in 2021.

With Palou’s move, Arrow McLaren SP has announced the final composition of its IndyCar team with Pato O’Ward, Alexander Rossi and Félix Rosenqvist.