Álex Palou
| Álex Palou | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |
 Spanish |
| Born |
1 April 1997 Sant Antoni de Vilamajor, Spain |
| GP3 Series career | |
| Debut season | 2015 |
| Current team | Campos Racing |
| Car no. | 22 |
| Starts | 36 |
| Wins | 1 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 1 |
| Best finish | 10th in 2015 |
| Previous series | |
|
2014 2014 |
Euroformula Open Championship BRDC Formula 4 Championship |
Álex Palou Montalbo (born 1 April 1997) is a Spanish racing driver born in Sant Antoni de Vilajamajor, Spain. As of 2015, he drives for Campos Racing in the GP3 Series. He became the first Spanish racing driver to win a GP3 race when he took the victory of the final round of his debut season, held at the Yas Marina Circuit of Abu Dhabi.
Born in Sant Antoni de Vilamajor, Palou began karting in 2003. His biggest karting achievement was the championship title in the WSK Euro Series in 2012.
Palou made his open-wheel racing debut, competing in the Euroformula Open Championship with Campos Racing in 2014. He bookended the season, winning the opening race at the Nürburgring and the final race at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. He also won a race at the Hungaroring to finish third in the series standings, missing out on the runner-up placing by just one point to Artur Janosz.
In 2015, Palou graduated to the GP3 Series with Campos Racing. During the first half of the season he suffered major reliability issues as well as some driving mistakes due to his lack of experience, but his results improved along the season and he closed the year with a victory at Abu Dhabi.
At the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya of Spain, Palou qualified fourth for the first race, but he slipped the clutch at the start and lost any opportunity to fight for the points. He made another bad start at the second race.
At the Red Bull Ring of Austria, Palou had another bad weekend. Starting from third, he stalled the engine at the start. He later admitted he felt nervous after the mistakes from Barcelona and that that might have contributed to those new errors. He did not finish the second race because of a crash at the first lap.
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