Today on the Week in IndyCar and the Marshall Pruitt podcast, we have an old friend of the show

who has a slightly different place to call home since the last time we had young Alex

Palo on the line. How you doing my man? How's life upgrading to one of the big three IndyCar teams?

Hey Marshall, how you doing? I'm doing great.

Not as good as you.

I know, I know. I'm in the best moment I could be right now. So yeah, I'm super lucky.

Yeah, I'm super happy to be in the position I am now.

Well, we've got a lot of great questions for you, a variety of them all over the place,

whether it's new team, whether it's Super Formula, got some coffee and a cafe talk to do here.

Why don't we start with a bit of a general question?

And I know we had a couple people ask this in their questions,

so I wanted to consolidate them.

Tell us about this road to moving to Chip Ganassi racing.

Is this something you'd been working on for a while?

Did this come a little bit out of the

blue how did this transition happen for you yeah so it's been it's been a crazy journey i think

it's been a tough year um just with all the COVID stuff and not so much testing or free practice

but we we made it sooner than I expected for sure and all

this started as always it starts something really small like an introduction I think

it started during the Indy 500 which was I think a good two weeks of testing and qualifying for me, not the

race result, but at least we were putting our name up there. And then I think just like

a bit before Sandpit that everything started moving so quickly. And then suddenly we made it

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