The 22-year-old Chicago-born American Lithuanian landed one of the most coveted seats on the IndyCar Series grid after spending the past two seasons with Dale Coyne Racing, and the adjustment has kept him busy since the checkered flag fell on the 2023 season four weeks ago at Laguna Seca.
“Since the season ended and everybody came back from their vacations, I managed to start to do a few days at the shop and meet all the people,” Malukas said. “It was definitely a long day meeting a lot of new people, and I was trying to remember all the new faces and names, but everybody was amazing and made me feel like family. Actually a few of the people I met were people that I grew up with in go-karting, and they were showing me pictures of when I was very little, like eight years old, still playing with Hot Wheels.”
