Meyer Shank Racing’s David Malukas had a fantastic qualifying session for the Honda Indy 200 presented by the 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid as he will start only his second race of the season from third place on the grid with a time of 01:05.6509s and speaking following the action he said:
Talk about a turn around. This year has been an emotional rollercoaster and just looking back on everything, I’ve been allowed to reach my max potential. At Laguna there was so much pace there but with the hand, I had to break it in and get it back to where it needs to be. I knew coming into here the guys has done an incredible job prepping the car, and Josh with Honda did an awesome job as well. I knew that the set up was there and the car was there and we just had to put it together. It was a perfect situation for me and I couldn’t be happier.”
Felix Rosenqvist starts the race from 19th due to an engine grid penalty.
I went a little too hard in the last corner of the last lap and understeered a little bit. It’s hard when you know you could have advanced pretty easily, but you went for it and it didn’t work out. We’ll have the (six place) grid penalty as well so we’ll be deeper in the field and will have some work to do tomorrow.”