Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast and a special edition.

The Week in IndyCar listener Q&A recording this early on a Thursday evening here, February 15th.

Just watching a little bit of NASCAR duels I think whatever they call them

their qualifying thing for the Daytona 500 this weekend and I wouldn't pretend

to understand how it all works but I was watching a little bit of that flipping around

there's a Milwaukee Bucks basketball game on,

and my Golden State Warriors are playing here shortly before heading into the All-Star break.

But nonetheless, I'm going to jump into what I hope is some rapid fire Q&A,

all based around a lot of newsiness.

A lot of newsy fun so far this week.

Posted an episode at the beginning of the week with normal questions.

And there's been a heck a bunch of developments going on just today.

Had Takumasato confirmed in the fourth and final Ray Hall-Letterman-Lanagan Racing Indy-500 entry.

I think I've been mentioning here last couple months in a variety of things that I've written about,

prospective Indy-500 entry lists to keep an eye out for Takuma.

So great to see that confirmed, but we do indeed have some newsy items like our

guy, Lil Dave, Davy Malukas, hurting himself.

I'm going to get into that.

Got questions about that.

Have a heckabunch, which is the official measurement standard on the podcast here regarding

Nashville, change of venues and whatnot. And we got other things too. So get through as much

of that as I can here without going over an hour. I'm going to do my best. I never, never win in my attempts to

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