{"id":704687,"date":"2026-05-30T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704687\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:07:10","slug":"will-power-jokes-about-sending-alex-palou-to-f1-to-protect-his-indycar-pole-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704687\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Power Jokes About Sending Alex Palou to F1 to Protect His IndyCar Pole Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Palou will start an IndyCar race from pole for the third straight race, putting down the fastest time in Fast Six Saturday afternoon in qualifying for the Detroit Grand Prix. <\/p>\n

He’ll be joined by Will Power, who nabbed his first front row starting spot since joining Andretti and Honda at the start of the season, but Power was 0.232 seconds away from his first pole with the new team. <\/p>\n

Power held the fastest time with just the Chip Ganassi Honda’s of Palou and Scott Dixon remaining. <\/p>\n

Palou’s run of three consecutive poles moves him to 16 in his career, still a far cry from Will Power’s 71, the series record. A record that Power thinks Palou can break without intervention.<\/p>\n

“It’s not impossible because that’s where I started, where he was,” Power said in the press conference. “Depends how long he goes. Might convince Dan [Towriss] to put him in F1 if he gets close.”<\/p>\n

Palou who recently settled his F1 lawsuit<\/a> from not moving from Chip Ganassi Racing to McLaren in pursuit of a potential F1 seat, joined the press conference a question later and Power made sure he heard his quip about having his new boss at Andretti Global, Dan Towriss, send Palou to F1. <\/p>\n

“Alex is certainly pumping ’em out. It’s good stuff. I was just saying I wish I could convince Dan to put you in F1.<\/p>\n

“I’m good here. They can take Colton<\/a> and Kyle,” Palou laughed.<\/p>\n

Colton Herta, who Power replaced in the No. 26 is running F2 in hopes of securing one of the Cadillac F1 seats next year an ambition that Palou no longer shares.<\/p>\n

“He likes it better here,” Power said. <\/p>\n

Power’s win with Andretti is coming, they just have to have a race weekend with the little mistakes and misfortunes that have plagued the No. 26 team.<\/p>\n

“For us just to execute a weekend without a mistake would be very nice,” Power said post-qualifying.<\/p>\n

During a Friday press conference Power lamented about Palou being able to put it all together so often over the past few years, leading to the young Spaniard’s success in race wins and championships, but as someone was who once the ‘guy to beat’ Power knows that it doesn’t last for ever.
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“All manageable things,” Power said about the small moments that have ruined a fair share of his race weekends. “I wouldn’t call it bad luck. The car is really good, the team is really good. You just have to put it together.<\/p>\n

“I do think about Palou at these times and think about how often he puts it together. To be in this place must feel so good where it’s all flowing for you. But his time will come” <\/p>\n

Power ended his answer with what he himself called an ‘evil laugh’.<\/p>\n

At the end of Palou’s media availability Fox Sports’ Bob Pockrass, told the driver about Power’s laugh the day before, asking if see’s his streak of success coming to an end.<\/p>\n

“We have the processes, but you know the time will come. I agree with him. I hope he’s wrong and I hope I’m wrong. That’s life. Yeah, you go through a good stretch. I’ve been saying it the last two years. Hopefully it goes another four or five the same way. <\/p>\n

“Yeah, I agree with him. I’m just in a moment where I feel super confident with myself, the team is giving me the fastest cars, and I feel very confident with the car, the team, with everything. I’m on that sweet spot. Hopefully it’s long and it’s tall. It could just go wrong tomorrow.”
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Victoria Beaver is a nomadic sports writer who spends her time hopping between race tracks and hippie farms. She\u2019s covered every corner of motorsports that will let her in from 410 Sprints to NASCAR to Supercross. Her daily driver is a 2010 Subaru that she refused to do the smallest amount of preventative maintenance on. Instead, she spends her free time and money building a 42-foot Skoolie to one day travel the country full time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Palou will start an IndyCar race from pole for the third straight race, putting down the fastest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,183855,782,256212,784,578,576,577,237154,1642,256211,82],"class_list":["post-704687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-collection-motorsport","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-9d5b347a-6245-41a2-9f4f-17c8afa5e83a","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-shorttitle-will-power-jokes-about-sending-palou-to-f1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}