No one can challenge Alex Palou. That's IndyCar in 2025. Palou, of Chip Ganassi Racing, feels no heat after starting from the pole at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama in winning his third of four races this season.

Scott McLaughlin won the pole, then the race, on the Alabama road course in 2024. Here is the qualifying start time, TV, expert prediction.

Reigning IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou has won two of the first three races of the season, but he had not won a pole position until taking the top spot for Sunday’s Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix in the finals seconds of qualifying at Barber Motorsports Park on Saturday afternoon.