{"id":208471,"date":"2025-09-07T20:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208471\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:27:17","slug":"alex-palou-basks-in-nyc-spotlight-during-champions-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208471\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Palou Basks in NYC Spotlight During Champion\u2019s Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No driver showed more consistent speed than Alex Palou during the 2025 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, and his pace didn\u2019t slow this week during the champion\u2019s tour of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Chip Ganassi Racing driver Palou celebrated his third consecutive series title and fourth overall since 2021 through a packed schedule of media and public appearances Monday through Wednesday in the &#8220;Big Apple,&#8221; America\u2019s largest city and one of the media and financial capitals of the world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/09-04-Palou-Media.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Palou\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you NYC,\u201d Palou <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alexpalou\/reel\/DOJwoh0D_Lk\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tour started Monday morning, Sept. 1 \u2013 barely 12 hours after Palou hoisted the Astor Challenge Cup as series champion at Nashville Superspeedway. His schedule of media that day included a live appearance on ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d a taped interview for future broadcast with the \u201cHappy Hour\u201d show on FS1 hosted by NASCAR legend and FOX Sports NASCAR announcer Kevin Harvick, appearances on FanSided and FOX Deportes, and multiple other podcasts and interviews, including with many outlets from Palou\u2019s native Spain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/09-04-Palou-FOX.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Palou\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Palou made live appearances on \u201cFOX and Friends,\u201d (photo, above) FOX Noticias, Front Office Sports and \u201cFirst Things First\u201d on FS1. He also was interviewed by GQ magazine, USA TODAY, FOXSports.com and Motorsport.com. In between that activity, Palou found time for a photo shoot with the Astor Challenge Cup at the Astor House in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>He closed Tuesday as a guest at the U.S. Open tennis quarterfinals at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens.<\/p>\n<p>The quick pace continued Wednesday when Palou made a live morning appearance on FOX 5 NYC before posing with the Astor Challenge Cup in front of the iconic NASDAQ video screen in Times Square that contained his image and an NTT INDYCAR SERIES logo.<\/p>\n<p>In between those stops, he also visited the TAG Heuer store on Fifth Avenue and squeezed in an interview with Bloomberg Radio.<\/p>\n<p>Palou won eight of the 17 races this season to dominate his competition, clinching the title in the No. 10 DHL Chip Ganassi Racing Honda with two races remaining. His four championships are tied for third on the all-time INDYCAR SERIES list with Mario Andretti, Sebastien Bourdais and Dario Franchitti, trailing only A.J. Foyt (seven) and CGR teammate Scott Dixon (six).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No driver showed more consistent speed than Alex Palou during the 2025 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, and his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":208472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-208471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115164901803142419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}