An oval and two road courses are all that stand between the contenders for the 2022 NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship and hoisting the Astor Challenge Cup. Of the seven drivers realistically still in contention for the title, three have won NTT INDYCAR SERIES races at the 1.25-mile oval. Every driver enters a season hoping to win a race, and many expect to. Among those is reigning series champion Palou, who enters the event 33 points out of the lead with three races to go. He has finished in the top 11 of all five of his races at this track, with a fifth-place finish in 2017 with AJ Foyt Racing. The Frenchman not only lost the lead, he lost second place to Dixon, and that’s how they finished in what was one of the last races of the season.

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