Alex Palou wins Sonsio Grand Prix for third straight year

By JOSH BODE

WISH-TV | wishtv.com

Alex Palou won the 2025 Sonsio Grand Prix.

This is the third straight year that Alex Palou has won the Indy Grand Prix. He’s the first driver to win the race in three consecutive years.

“It feels amazing,” Palou said. “It’s a place that’s been really good for us. It’s really tough, like today, I started on pole, and Graham (Rahal) didn’t want me to lead for more than 250 feet, but he did a great job.”

WISH-TV driver analyst Graham Rahal finished in sixth, but led the most amount of laps (49).

Palou was dominant on the road course on Friday as well, winning pole position for the race.

Palou, the NTT IndyCar Series Championship leader, has now won four of the first five races of the season.

“At the end of the race, we had the fastest car, for sure,” Palou said. “I was just able to be comfortable at the front.”

“Momentum is everything, especially for this month, especially having back-to-back races and now it seems like we’re not going to stop for a long time, which is amazing.”

He joins Simon Pagenaud and Will Power as three time winners of the race.

Palou led for 29 laps. He finished the race in just over an hour and 48 minutes with an average speed of 115.2 miles per hour.

Pato O’Ward and Will Power rounded out the podium. Scott McLaughlin finished fourth and Scott Dixon finished fifth.

There was one yellow flag in the race, coming with 16 laps to go. David Malukas went into the grass. This was the first caution since the first lap of the first race of the IndyCar season, in St. Petersburg.

The Month of May continues at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with Pole Day on Sunday, May 18. The 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 is on Sunday, May 25.

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