I'm fairly certain it'll be Checo alongside whatever young American driver has enough of both marketability and super license points. Maybe Colton Herta?

Sonny Hayes, he's old but he'll get the job done /s

In all seriousness, gotta get some yanks in there. Or Colapinto if he doesn't have a drive. Jak Crawford maybe, or Zane Maloney was great in f2.

I don't really know the Indy Nxt drivers... Miles Rowe perhaps?

I'll be quite disappointed if they do bring checo back, he's had his time in the sun.

I've seen some interesting predictions about that recently, some youtuber even suggested Perez and Magnussen with no American driver which had me question reality a bit.

I think Perez seems very likely at this point. And for the American driver, they have multiple options from Indycar.

Danny Ric as the honorary American? Maybe with Yuki or Checo or Kmag? I doubt they're gonna go with a real rookie

“Suck my balls Kevin”

George Russell and whatever American from Indie car they can find who looks competitive - I don't know Indie car, so no idea who they are. That way, you get both experience from George and a popular driver in the Indie car guy.

Palou to bring in the US market, Bottas to benchmark the car.