Meyer Shank Racing’s Helio Castroneves♑ says he wants to break Alex Palou’s race-winning streak in Sunday’s Indianapoliℱs 500.

Three-time IndyCar champion Palou has hit a purple patch at the start of the 2025 season, the Chip Ganassi driver annihilating his 🦹rivals with four victories in five races held so far.

However, for all his successes in 2025 - and recent years -  the Spaniard has never won a race at an oval track during his time in IndyCar.

It’s this weakness that Castroneves 💦wants to capitalise on as he chases a record fifth victory in the Indy 500.

🔯“CGR is another incredi♚ble team,” said the Brazilian. “They also won a lot of races. I feel that Scott Dixon is one of the guys that I competed with most of my career.

“He is probably one of the guys that has experience as a good team and speed a꧑s well. So he's going to be up there along with Palou,” said Helio Castroneves as he detailed his rivals.

“Palou has been destroying everyone. It's amazing in any sport, when you have that𝓀 momentum. It's incredible. I do feel the ovals however, it might stop this momentum. I'm going to try to stop his momentum, no question about it.”

Ironically, the closest Palou came clos🌞est to clinching victory at an oval was🐬 in 2021, when Castrovenes beat him to the top spot at the Indy 500 by 0.49s.

Since that defeat, Palou has matured as a driver and earned a name for himsel♑f in the history books, but an ov🏅al win continues to elude him.

The Spaniard will take the start from sixth on the grid, two spots from behind teammate Scott Dixon.

IndyCar part-tim💮er Castroneves will line up 22♊nd on the grid.

The 109th running of the Indy 500 would see the hybrid system being used for theꦡ first time in the race.

“I believe this co🅰uld be very, very interesting this race,” said Castroneves.

“The💫re is a lot going on, and people don't realize when you are actually use the regen, it feels a little bit like a brake.

“You've got to be on top of this scenario, deploy and regen at the same time, at the ℱright time, because if something goes ordinary, you're go🌠ing to get passed by a lot of people.”

Palou, however, remains upbeat about his chances in the Indy 500, saying he is "more confident than ever" about win🅺ning the race.