{"id":174463,"date":"2026-03-02T01:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174463\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:21:16","slug":"grand-prix-of-st-petersburg-results-alex-palou-continues-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174463\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Results: Alex Palou Continues Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Alex Palou <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/motor\/alex-palou-indycar-champion-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">won eight INDYCAR races during a historic 2025 season<\/a>, including a victory in the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">He picked up right where he left off on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/live-blog\/motor\/firestone-grand-prix-st-petersburg-live-updates-leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">beginning the 2026 season with a dominant performance at the Firestone Grand Prix of St Petersburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Winner Is \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Alex Palou, driver of the Chip Ganassi Racing No. 10 car, earned his second consecutive victory at the Firestone Grand Prix of St Petersburg. It was Palou&#8217;s 20th career win.<\/p>\n<p>How The Race Was Won<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Palou won the race by a gap of 12.49 seconds and led for a total of 59 laps. Pole-sitter Scott McLaughlin led for 34 laps and finished in second.<\/p>\n<p>One Big Moment<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Newcomer Mick Schumacher crashed on Lap 1 of Sunday&#8217;s race, effectively ending his chances before things really even got started for the former F1 driver.<\/p>\n<p>Top-10 Results<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">1. Alex Palou<br \/>2. Scott McLaughlin<br \/>3. Christian Lundgaard<br \/>4. Kyle Kirkwood<br \/>5. Pato O\u2019Ward<br \/>6. Marcus Ericsson<br \/>7. Josef Newgarden<br \/>8. Romain Grosjean<br \/>9. Rinus Veekay<br \/>10. Dennis Hauger<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s Next<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The second race of the 2026 INDYCAR season is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/motor\/good-ranchers-250-ntt-indycar-series-mar-07-2026-racetrax-6047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Good Ranchers 250<\/a> on March 7 at Phoenix Raceway (Noon ET on FOX) as part of a doubleheader weekend with NASCAR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Palou won eight INDYCAR races during a historic 2025 season, including a victory in the 109th running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[79537,79539,82701,81082,79536,81087,72187,68944,72189,79538,79533,76779,79532,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-174463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-alex-palou","9":"tag-dennis-hauger","10":"tag-indy-good-ranchers-250-03-07-2026","11":"tag-indy-nxt","12":"tag-josef-newgarden","13":"tag-kyle-kirkwood","14":"tag-marcus-ericsson","15":"tag-nascar-cup-series","16":"tag-ntt-indycar-series","17":"tag-pato-oward","18":"tag-rinus-veekay","19":"tag-romain-grosjean","20":"tag-scott-mclaughlin","21":"tag-st-pete","22":"tag-st-pete-headlines","23":"tag-st-pete-news","24":"tag-st-petersburg","25":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","26":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}