How IndyCar rookie MalukasDavid became another success story for DaleCoyneRacing HMDMotorsports
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Malukas is also a whole lot better than we might have predicted after seeing him shunt out of Rounds 1 and 3, St. Petersburg and Long Beach respectively. At that time, he looked desperate to prove himself, but the youngster took it on board and his errors have been minimized, while his pace has increased. His margin over Sato in qualifying at both Mid-Ohio and Toronto was staggering, and even Coyne has admitted he’s been taken aback by how swiftly his new gem has improved.
“He’s been working out hard and it’s paying off,” confirmed Coyne. “At Iowa on the Saturday [in the first race of the double-header], the car wasn’t quite where he needed it to be and it was very hot so he looked whipped. Sunday’s race was 50 laps longer, but it was about 15 degrees cooler and the car was competitive, and that means you don’t wear yourself out mentally, and he was fine after that one.
Considering that so many who avidly watch the Road To Indy spoke and wrote of fellow 2022 IndyCar rookie Kyle Kirkwood as The Second Coming – champion at all three RTI levels – it’s worth recapping the junior formula efforts of Malukas who proved such a worthy adversary of Kirkwood in Indy Lights. Because this year, Malukas is making a far more favorable impression at the top level of U.S. open-wheel.
“Honestly, that may have helped me,” Malukas says, “because it gave me another year to mature! At the end of every year, I look back at things I did and say, ‘Wow, I was so stupid!’ so returning to Indy Lights two years after the start of my first season, I just felt so much more knowledgeable and prepared. We went off to do Formula Regional Americas [he and HMD finished second despite a rushed start to the season], and then with HMD onboard we went back to Lights for 2021.
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