
“It’s like they say, everything happens for a reason,” David Malukas told Motorsport.com. “If I look back, I am probably 10 times the driver that I feel like before with everything that happened this year.
Malukas reckoned with some steep odds through his 2024 IndyCar Series season and has come out the other side better because of it. It was a year that began with Arrow McLaren, which quickly fell awry after he suffered a mountain biking crash less than a month before the season and forced him on the sidelines with an injured left wrist that required surgery. He was released less than three months later, with the team citing his unavailability and no return date confirmed.