MP 1662: The Week In IndyCar Jan 9 2026

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

Marshall Pruett

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.6 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

It's The Week In IndyCar Listener Q&A show, which uses listener-driven comments and questions covering a variety of topics submitted by open-wheel fans via social media. TOPICS: 1. Car weight questions (How will weight be distributed? Will new, lighter car set track records?) 2. Coyne questions (Any idea as to when we'll know the second driver? Does delay favor Lundqvist? Do people appreciate how many great drivers got their start with DCR?) 3. Dreyer and Reinbold questions (Should series be flexible with engine charters? Do they have a possible full-time opportunity with engine charters.) 4. Should we read anything into Veekay's appearance at the Detroit Auto Show? 5. What does Malukas have to do to prove himself at Penske? 6. Any Prema updates? 7. Why did you leave the crew side of the sport to write about it? NEW show stickers and retro racing memorabilia: ThePruettStore.com EVERY episode is graciously supported by the Justice Brothers and TorontoMotorsports.com. If you'd like to join the PrueDay podcast listener group, send an email to pruedayrocks@gmail.com and you'll be invited to participate in the Discord chat that takes place every day and meet up with your new family at IndyCar events. Play on Podbean.com: https://marshallpruett.podbean.com/ Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast [WTI]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast in your week in IndyCar listener Q&A show.
0:08.2	Our very first of 2026, y'all, getting this going here at about 7.30 p.m. on Thursday, the 8th.
0:17.6	I apologize for the delay intended to get this done earlier in the week.
0:23.4	I've been dealing with a bit of a spotty voice.
0:27.1	So they didn't have much of a voice for most of the week.
0:31.1	But it's back.
0:32.5	So it seems like the tool that I needed to record a podcast.
0:36.1	So I'm going to say a big thanks to y'all for the great questions you sent in.
0:41.6	Our friend Jerry Sudath, who grabs everything off of my personal ex and the Marshall
0:47.3	Pruitt podcast Facebook page.
0:49.6	I want to put out the call for questions each week.
0:52.6	Jerry says we have about 20 questions and over 1,200 words worth of queries.
0:59.0	Going to be an episode with a beer.
1:03.4	Uh, going to have Joe Max coffee stout, one pint, 6.9 ABV.
1:13.6	This, a product of press coffee roasters, the Rennhouse Brewing Company, Phoenix, Arizona.
1:21.9	And I guess that's fitting.
1:24.7	Definitely in light of yesterday's confirmation test Firestone at Phoenix
1:31.2	Raceway. Weird that they change that for those old timers from Phoenix International
1:37.6	Raceway. They drop the international. It's just straight up Phoenix Raceway, but that
1:42.9	confirmation test.
1:51.0	So I guess fitting that having a beer from the greater area where Indycars ran for the first time in 2026. So I'm hoping this doesn't blow up like the one did my podcast, video podcast with Doug Bowles.
1:59.9	But I'll give it a try and open it slowly.
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