#643: Palou vs Newgarden – IndyCar 2026, The Story So Far

Palou dominates St. Pete while Newgarden remains IndyCar’s oval king. IndyCar so far, on Motorsport101…

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Sorry it’s taken a bit longer than billed, but here’s a big IndyCar catchup Podcast before our Arlington episode drops this weekend as the season finally takes a proper chill week!

Dre and RJ wrap-up a very straightforward beat em’ up weekend for Alex Palou in St Petersberg as Marcus Ericsson and Scott McLaughlin could only try to keep up, but spend the majority of the time catching up on all things Phoenix, returning to the IndyCar calendar for the first time in eight years, and with it – A huge win for Josef Newgarden to dethrone Alex Palou’s 22-race streak of leading the standings.

How we got there? Another Palou and Rinus Veekay collision on an oval. Whoops. Phoenix also gave us another potentially brilliant oval performance from Christian Rasmussen, who RJ has now nicknamed “Mr Excitement” was on the brink of a potential win, until he had a crash with Will Power in the late stages, damaging his car out of competition. All that and more discussed as Dre and RJ go in depth on the season so far, in this episode of Motorsport101!

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