It’s the champions edition of The Race IndyCar Podcast, as we speak to this year’s overall and rookie title winners, plus the victor in the Indy NXT support series.

Alex Palou returns to discuss Will Power leaving Team Penske (the interview was done before Power’s Andretti switch was confirmed), his most likely future contenders, how he intends to repeat his near-perfect season and what his focuses are to improve on next year.

Louis Foster - IndyCar’s rookie of the year - joins to discuss the breathtaking drama which helped him to his title in the dying minutes at Nashville, his incredible qualifying performances and why there’s positivity over the future at Rahal Letterman Lanigan.

And finally, Dennis Hauger of Andretti appears to discuss his monstrous title-winning Indy NXT season, and what’s next for him in the future.

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The IndyCar silly season dominates this episode of The Race IndyCar podcast.

Jack Benyon is joined by Josh Suttill to discuss the bombshell news that Will Power is leaving Penske and Colton Herta will become a Cadillac Formula 1 test driver next year, likely twinning that role with a switch to Formula 2. What do these moves mean for the individuals concerned and the rest of the IndyCar grid?

There's also plenty of chat about the Nashville season finale, which saw Josef Newgarden return to winning ways.

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After a dramatic finish to the Milwaukee IndyCar race last weekend, the person responsible for that drama, Christian Rasmussen, joins the pod exclusively to talk about becoming IndyCar’s newest race winner.

The Ed Carpenter driver walks through how he went from sixth to first with outrageous overtakes in the final stint, why he tried so hard to overtake lapped cars in the closing laps, and the reason his car had so much oversteer which he dealt with incredibly.

He also discusses the bigger picture of being given the faith of his eponymous team owner who stepped back from his own IndyCar seat for Rasmussen late last year, how new investment in the team is helping now and promising a lot for the future and of course, he addresses the people who say he’s too aggressive in on-track combat.

Host Jack Benyon also picks out more of the key storylines from the penultimate race, ahead of Nashville’s finale.

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