As he watched his hold on the IndyCar championship slip away, Alex Palou was neither angry nor frustrated over his second bad break in as many weeks. An engine issue had knocked him out of the race a week before, and seven days later he was collected in a three-car crash at Madison. The back-to-back mishaps allowed Pato O’Ward to turn a 42-point deficit into a 10-point lead over Palou with just three races left on the schedule. Two-time series champion Josef Newgarden pulled within 22 points of the lead and five drivers remain squarely in the title hunt. Palou refused to complain about the three penalties he has incurred for engine changes—including one last Saturday at World Wide Technology Raceway that forced him to start 21st in a 24-driver field—or the crash that made him a spectator as O’Ward took the championship lead. “I’m driving for Chip Ganassi Racing …