Alex Palou Interview

Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour presented by NASCAR on FOX

Fox Sports

Leisure, Automotive, Sports

4.8 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Fresh off his 2025 IndyCar Championship, Alex Palou joins Kevin Harvick for this week’s Victory Lap. Palou opens up about his incredible run of four championships in five years, why this season’s title means the most to him, and what it’s been like cementing his place as one of motorsport’s biggest stars. The two also discuss Palou’s perspective on the future: whether he’d ever consider trying his hand in NASCAR or Formula 1, how he views his legacy in IndyCar, and what keeps him motivated to continue chasing greatness. LINK TO SUBMIT PICKS FOR GATEWAY: https://forms.gle/G5YKrv6famwBuo7A9 0:00 - Intro 0:35 - Alex Palou Joins The Show! 1:30 - Winning The 2025 IndyCar Championship 7:37 - Indy 500 Vs. The Championship 11:34 - IndyCar Playoff System Vs. NASCAR 17:48 - Interest In Racing NASCAR? 19:30 - Plans For Future 21:22 - Relationship With Chip Ganassi 23:53 - Differences Between IndyCar & F1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's been a magical year for me.
0:01.7	I'm a bit sad that it ended.
0:03.0	What feels bigger at this point?
0:04.3	Winning the championship or the Indy 500?
0:06.2	The 500, by far.
0:07.7	I think it would be a lot tougher for me to go to NASCAR.
0:11.2	Those races look challenging.
0:12.7	That was something that I was chasing.
0:14.4	Not now.
0:14.9	I'm happy here.
0:20.6	What a race. California's Kevin Harvick does it.
0:23.6	Welcome to Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour, presented by NASCAR on Fox,
0:29.6	and today we've got four-time IndyCar champion now, Alex Palo.
0:34.9	And Alex, thanks for joining us, and congratulations, man. Four of the last five years, that's outstanding.
0:42.3	Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yeah, I mean, it's been a tremendous couple years with CGR and IndyCar and, yeah, lots of great success. So been having a lot of fun, on track and off track.
0:56.6	Well, your reputation, obviously, I don't know you well, but the reputation and all the
1:01.4	feedback that I get from everybody on our Fox team is that you're always going to have a smile.
1:07.7	You're always going to shake everybody's hands. You're going to be quite a pleasure
1:12.3	to be around. And I think when you look at that and you look at the determination that you bring to
1:18.3	the racetrack, winning four out of five championships, no matter if you're good, happy, sad, mad,
1:24.6	no matter what that is and no matter what the series it's in, it's hard.
1:29.7	And where does this championship rank over the previous three compared to how it went?
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