Alex Palou will stay with Chip Ganassi Racing subsequent season in an settlement that permits the one-time IndyCar champion to check Formulation One with McLaren, and Felix Rosenqvist will hold his seat in a pair of Wednesday resolutions to a wild foolish season.
Palou and Ganassi have been locked in a feud since July when the workforce mentioned it had picked up a 2023 choice on the Spaniard. Palou refuted the Ganassi declare and mentioned he was instead moving to McLaren Racing.
Ganassi then sued him and the edges used each mediation and the courts to find out which workforce would declare Palou subsequent 12 months. The primary indicators {that a} resolution was close to got here Sunday on the season finale at Laguna Seca Raceway, the place Palou gained the race and was then elusive on how his contract scenario was enjoying out.
He mentioned he anticipated to talk to workforce proprietor Chip Ganassi and have a solution very quickly. It got here Wednesday when he tweeted he had come to an settlement to drive the No. 10 subsequent 12 months for a 3rd consecutive season.
Palou mentioned he was grateful Ganassi additionally will allow him to “to pursue F1 testing” with McLaren exterior of his IndyCar commitments.
Minutes after Palou’s announcement, McLaren introduced that Rosenqvist would return to the No. 7 in IndyCar subsequent season. The Swede has been in limbo for months. He had agreed to a take care of McLaren to maneuver to its new Formulation E workforce subsequent season if there was no seat for him in IndyCar.
The Palou saga was holding up McLaren’s plans for its three-car IndyCar lineup, and Rosenqvist determined he not wished to maneuver to Formulation E. McLaren held the IndyCar choice on Rosenqvist by the top of September and, because the Palou case dragged on, was going to be pressured to launch him to signal with one other workforce or stroll away from the Palou mess and hold Rosenqvist.
“There is no higher technique to enter the offseason than with this information,” Rosenqvist mentioned. “I really like this workforce, and I am so joyful to proceed working with all of the unimaginable folks I’ve gotten to know over the previous two seasons.”
The workforce is increasing subsequent 12 months so as to add a 3rd automotive for Alexander Rossi, and Rosenqvist and McLaren driver Pato O’Ward have grown extraordinarily shut of their two seasons as teammates.
“With all the pieces the workforce has within the pipeline, the persevering with relationship with Pato and the addition of Alex Rossi, we’re going to carry our A-game for 2023,” Rosenqvist mentioned. “It will likely be essentially the most thrilling season for me to this point.”
