Alex Palou

Alex Palou is a Spanish racing driver for Chip Ganassi Racing in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES. He is a four-time INDYCAR champion and the 2025 Indianapolis 500 winner, and has appeared in OpenAI-related racing content discussing data analysis, race preparation, and strategy.

Chip Ganassi Racing Uses OpenAI to Find Tenths Between Sessions

OpenAI’s Joyce Ruffell presents the company’s collaboration with Chip Ganassi Racing as an effort to turn an already data-rich IndyCar operation into a faster decision-making system. The case made in the source is not that AI replaces race judgment, but that it can connect historical, test, race, pit-stop, and strategy data quickly enough to matter in the narrow windows between sessions and during a race. At Long Beach, the argument is illustrated through Alex Palou’s win: a late pit-strategy adaptation, precise crew execution, and trusted information flow produced the margin.

OpenAIMay 28, 20266 min read