Brown praises Palou nonetheless no extra McLaren F1 tests except IndyCar ends

McLaren Racing chief Brown says Palou’s IndyCar results this year were “very spectacular”, alongside which the 26-year-ragged Spaniard has performed extra than one tests in its TPC (finding out outdated automotive) F1 programme.

Palou is at the 2nd 110 facets obvious of his IndyCar opposition after a swish first half of to the season for Chip Ganassi Racing that has incorporated four bustle victories.

His most up-to-date F1 take a look at turned into at the Hungaroring final month, the set he shared the running with McLaren’s bustle driver Oscar Piastri.

Speaking at Silverstone, Brown confirmed that Hungary turned into Palou’s final take a look at for the foreseeable future, permitting him to focal point on sealing a 2nd IndyCar title, nonetheless added that he’s going to be help in the F1 paddock from Singapore onwards.

“Alex has been very spectacular in IndyCar,” he stated. “The competition there is fierce. So, for him to score as many races as he has in the fad at some stage in which he’s executed, it’s very spectacular.

“He’s our reserve driver and might perhaps presumably presumably be joining us at the cease of the year for the rest Formulation 1 races, so he’s with out wretchedness a solid, solid skill.”

Alex Palou, McLaren F1 finding out at Barcelona

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When Palou turned into asked by Motorsport.com if he feels that his F1 runs like elevated his riding level, he answered: “It be continually irritating to claim nonetheless I’d say yes, for what I truly feel.

“I beget it be continually expansive must you might perhaps presumably furthermore, as a driver, be riding no topic has four wheels and an engine, in particular if it be a terribly snappy automotive and likewise you might perhaps presumably furthermore like got so many folks working and overseeing what you are doing with the automotive, talking delight in engineers.

“Obviously it changes loads, the absolute top method I force in F1 or in IndyCar. Composed, the method and the absolute top method and the work ethic, you largely learn some tools that you just might perhaps presumably furthermore carry into IndyCar.

“It be been working up to now. I fancy it. I don’t question having anymore finding out before our season ends, nonetheless it be continually factual to like some tune time.”

Palou got his first taste of a contemporary McLaren F1 automotive when he took fragment in FP1 at the Circuit of the Americas final year, which followed the resolution of an acrimonious courtroom case when he tried to be a part of McLaren for 2023 from Ganassi in the middle of the year.

Palou is anticipated to swap to the Arrow McLaren IndyCar crew subsequent season, whereas he waits for an opportunity to graduate to its F1 line-up.