Alex Palou and Chip Ganassi Racing should figure this out.
have Palou continuing at Chip Ganassi Racing, making an expected move to McLaren in the wake of his contested signing with the team last season, or taking a leap to an unknown Formula 1 team. All of those options carry some obvious value for Palou, but Chip Ganassi should not letget in the way. With Palou improving by the day and in pole position to win a second championship at just 26, it is time for Ganassi to make their star driver an offer he cannot refuse.
Arrow McLaren, the team that tried to poach Palou last year, is winless as we near the halfway point in what was supposed to be their most ambitious season ever. Palou himself has three wins, and Chip Ganassi Racing has one more from Marcus Ericsson, too. The team has now won four of eight rounds, proving itself to still be a step ahead of McLaren both in the IndyCar series in general and at the Indianapolis 500.
Formula 1 can draw Palou in other ways, though. If he has actually been offered a ride in the series by another team and is dead set on racing in Europe, there is little Ganassi can do to dissuade him. No American open wheel driver has made that leap directly in fifteen years, not since Sebastien Bourdais left the now-defunct Champ Car World Series after four consecutive titles.
Right now, though, that offer seems to be purely theoretical, and an offer from Ganassi could be concrete. CGR has the chance to blow Palou away with long-term guarantees and figure out the rest later, and Palou has the chance to commit to a stable program that has already proven with Scott Dixon that it can make a career-long winner out of a great young driver. From the outside, it appears Ganassi can also uniquely offer the chance to win Le Mans while racing in IndyCar.
IndyCar is not F1, and no IndyCar team can compete with an F1 team if both have concrete offers and a driver's dreams are in Europe. Until an AlphaTauri or Alfa Romeo gets to Palou and says with certainty that he could have a race seat next season, though, his surefire options are Ganassi and McLaren. Ganassi already has sponsorship on the car and Palou's winning record should make finding more easier than ever before.
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