{"id":394935,"date":"2022-12-01T10:57:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394935"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:57:32","slug":"indycar-star-palou-to-take-mclaren-reserve-driver-role-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/indycar-star-palou-to-take-mclaren-reserve-driver-role-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"IndyCar star Palou to take McLaren reserve driver role for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren has nominated 2021 IndyCar champion Alex Palou as one of its reserve drivers for the 2023 Formula 1 season, the team said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Spaniard Alex Palou will combine racing in the U.S. series next year with a McLaren reserve role where schedules allow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Introducing our 2023 Formula 1 reserve driver. Welcome to the team, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexPalou?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AlexPalou<\/a>! \ud83d\ude4c\ud83e\udde1<\/p>\n<p>Find out more below. \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; McLaren (@McLarenF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McLarenF1\/status\/1598316054136201217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to be part of the McLaren team as one of their reserve drivers in 2023. I&#8217;ve been behind the wheel of both the MCL35M and MCL36 and it has been a great experience, so I can&#8217;t wait for the involvement with next year&#8217;s car,&#8221; Palou said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to continuing my development as a driver and I appreciate the trust McLaren have in me with this new role next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, McLaren Racing&#8217;s IndyCar affiliate Arrows McLaren SP signed up Palou for its 2023 campaign in America.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, however, was successfully contested by Chip Ganassi Racing who held a valid contract on the Spaniard&#8217;s services for next season.<\/p>\n<p>The two parties eventually settled their case, with CGR retaining Palou in its IndyCar team for 2023 but giving the 25-year-old a free pass to test in F1 with McLaren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren has nominated 2021 IndyCar champion Alex Palou as one of its reserve drivers for the 2023 Formula 1 season, the team said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394936,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17020],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The 25-year-old Spaniard will combine racing in the U.S. series next year with a McLaren reserve role where schedules allow","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394935"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394935"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}