SALINAS, Calif — David Malukas is joining Arrow McLaren Racing. That was announced on Friday. That news comes three days after Meyer Shank Racing announced that Felix Rosenqvist would leave McLaren for the Honda team. A month ago, MSR announced Tom Blomqvist would drive 1 of their 2 cars. Now, Rosenqvist is in the other.

Speaking of “qvists” Linus Lundqvist was confirmed to be heading to Chip Ganassi Racing on a multi-year deal beginning in 2024 too. He replaces the departing Marcus Ericsson who heads to Andretti Autosport.

Then on Thursday, Ganassi confirmed that Marcus Armstrong will be back and round out their 2024 driver lineup.

So, what’s left?

It’s a foregone conclusion that Graham Rahal is staying with RLL. I don’t see them breaking up.

Then, it’s down to Andretti Autosport. We know Romain Grosjean and Devlin DeFrancesco both aren’t coming back. The question is, do they replace 1 or both?

Ericsson is coming, is anyone joining or do they scale back? That’s all dependent on if DeFrancesco can keep this car in the top 22 of the leaders circle standings this weekend.

DeFrancesco is likely heading to Coyne. Is Sting Ray Robb back? I’ve heard of a potential Grosjean reunion there.

Robb could be in the mix of returning to Andretti (he raced for them in Indy NXT) and bringing some funding with him for that 29 seat if they should need it.

Past that, there’s truly not much left.

Callum Ilott is a free agent but I’ve heard of a plan in the works for McLaren to form an alliance with Juncos Hollinger Racing. They’re high on Ilott and this is a plan to have him under their umbrella and gives McLaren the space to expand and grow since they’re maxed out in their current building. If this happens, then I expect JHR to remain status quo.

Think of it as something similar to Penske and Foyt and with that said, I expect all five combined drivers to be back. I know Penske will have no changes and while both Foyt drivers have been allowed to look, I don’t see any path for them to leave.

That means that the only true rides left for the taking are the 30 at RLL, the 20 at ECR and 1 seat at Coyne.