Palou may have slipped to outsider status in the championship race, as he seeks to become Ganassi’s first back-to-back title winner since Dario Franchitti in 2010-11 and he has gone winless so far in 2022. But the Spanish star topped the 13 drivers in action at Laguna Seca, with his nearest rival almost a quarter second adrift.
The NTT-backed #10 CGR-Honda lapped the beautiful undulating 2.238-mile course on the Monterey Peninsula in 1min11.441sec on his 73rd of 110 laps, a speed of 112.78mph.
