🅠Alex Palou has dismissed reports that linked him with a move into Formula 1 with Audi.

▨German outlet  🎐tipped that Palou was a contender to switch from IndyCar to drive for Audi in 2025, when the team will still run as Sauber.

“It’s all fake. I know you cannot take 🐬my word, but I promise,” Palau told .

“It’s all fake…

“I’ve had no contacts with Audi. Zero.”

Palou even insisted that his 🌸managꦇer has not held any talks with Audi.

“Zero, zero. I know you cannot take it (as truth), but I have not,” 𒅌he vowed.

Palau was linked more realistically to F1 after his first IndyCar champions🎀hip in 2021. McLaren were the team in the mix to sign him.

A tug-of-war dꦯeveloped betwe💮en Chip Ganassi Racing and McLaren.

Ami🔥d contractual disputes, the two teams mediated that Palou could serve McL💝aren as a test and reserve driver, but must race with Chip Ganassi until the end of 2023.

Palou and McLaren are now involved in a separate lawsuiꦯt, while the driver has ditched his former management team who, he insists, were behind his flirtation with F1.

Palau said about links to Audi: “I’m not going to say much, 💖but I’m not trying t🎐o go.

“I tried. I got a small taste, and it was fun, and I learned, but it didn’t happen, 𓆏so I’m good.

“I’m not🌠 desperately seeing the news there and sending an email like, ‘Hey, I know we’re not in contact, but can we talk?’ I’m good, I’m good.”

However, IndyStar reports that Palou’s current IndyCar contract with Chip Ganassi Racing involves a🌼 get-out clause.

It would require an F1 team to pay $1.5m to Chip Ganassi Racing if they want to 𒈔secure his se﷽rvices.

Palou has lost a former ally from Audi F1. A🍒ndreas Seidl, formerly of McLaren F1, recently exited as Audi CEO.

So although th𒊎e option maౠy theoretically exist for Palou to make a long-awaited switch to F1, whether he wants to go is another matter.

He is a two-ti🐻me IndyCar champion and is on course for a third t🅠his season.

Sauber, before their evolution in▨to Audi in 2026, have signed up Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg for next season but still have one free seat. Current drivers Valtteri Bottas and Guanyu Zhou are options to stay.