Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast and your week in IndyCar, a listener Q&A show.

Oh boy, it's been a busier than expected Monday evening.

Got news from the Arrow McLaren team that young Davy

Malukas Chicago Davy

aka Lil Dave

Dun fractured his hand

while out here out west

this past weekend

doing some mountain biking

training which is pretty common for drivers

some sort of whether it's road cycling or mountains

biking or something along those lines pretty normal and so sadly every couple of years at most

we hear about a driver who while again on the road somewhere or in the mountain somewhere

took a dive fractured a finger broke a wrist broke a hand rena's vk comes to mind as someone who

had that happen unfortunately just a couple years ago but can run back the list it is not uncommon

so sadly we're now having to ask whether young davy malucas will indeed be able to make his

indycar debut at the intended event here just under a month away,

March 8th through 10th at St. Petersburg.

Point that I mentioned here in the story on Racer that went up just a little while ago,

recording this at about 630-ish on a Monday evening,

is it's not to me so much the recovery time to get to St. Pete. It's that about two weeks after surgery, there is a big

paddock-wide every driver test at Sebring where for the first time every driver in their own

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