Conor Daly

Conor Daly (born December 15, 1991) is an American professional race car driver. He is currently signed to drive the road and street course races as well as the Indianapolis 500 for Ed Carpenter Racing, and the remaining oval races for Carlin in the NTT IndyCar Series.

Conor Daly
Daly at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2018
Nationality	American
Born	(1991-12-15) December 15, 1991 Noblesville, Indiana
IndyCar Series career
53 races run over 7 years
Team(s)	No. 20 (Ed Carpenter Racing) No. 59 (Carlin)
2018 position	29th (part-time)
Best finish	18th (2016, 2017)
First race	2013 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis)
Last race	2020 Iowa INDYCAR 250s, Race 2 (Iowa)
Wins Podiums Poles 0 1 1
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish	77th (2018)
First race	2018 Johnsonville 180 (Road America)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Previous series
2013–2014 2011–2012 2011 2009–2010	GP2 Series GP3 Series Indy Lights Star Mazda Championship
Championship titles
2012–13 2010	MRF Challenge Star Mazda Championship
Last updated on: July 5, 2020.

Racing career

Karting

At the age of 10, he began competing in karting, and, in 2006, he won the World Karting Association Grand Nationals. He progressed to car racing in 2007 and began racing cars full-time in 2008 in the Skip Barber National Championship, winning first place with 5 wins in 14 races, and Formula Ford.

On October 10, 2010, Daly finished runner-up at the RoboPong 200 all-star kart event at the New Castle Motorsports Park with teammate Graham Rahal. He finished runner-up to a team driven by Jay Howard and Bill McLaughlin Jr. The 2010 Izod IndyCar Series runner-up Will Power and ALMS driver Simon Pagenaud were 4th.[1]

Star Mazda Championship

In 2009, he competed in the Star Mazda Championship for Andersen Racing and finished third in points with a win at New Jersey Motorsports Park. He returned to the series in 2010, driving for Juncos Racing.[2] He became series champion after finishing in the top four positions in each of the twelve races, prior to clinching the title at Mosport International Raceway on August 28, 2010.[3] He also set a series record of 9 poles and 7 wins en route to his championship.

Indy Lights

In 2011, Daly competed part-time in the Indy Lights series with Sam Schmidt Motorsports.[4] His best result of the season was a win at the Grand Prix of Long Beach.[5]

In 2013, Daly returned to Indy Lights with a one-off appearance in the Houston race for Team Moore Racing, finishing third.

GP3 Series

Conor Daly at Sprint Race in Spa-Francorchamps 2013

Alongside his commitments in the Indy Lights series, Daly competed in GP3 in 2011 with Carlin Motorsport.[6]

For 2012, Daly continued in GP3 driving, for the Lotus GP team.[7] He took his maiden GP3 win in the second race of the season at Barcelona.[8] In the second race at Monaco, he made contact with the damaged car of Dmitry Suranovich which launched Daly into a catch fence and forced the race to be red flagged.[9]

For 2013 Daly remained in GP3, racing with the ART Grand Prix team. Daly captured one win at the Valencia Street Circuit feature race and placed third in the championship.

GP2 Series

Daly competed in the 2013 GP2 Series season season-opener at Sepang International Circuit with Hilmer Motorsport. He finished seventh in the sprint race and scored two championship points.

For 2014, Daly competed with Venezuela GP Lazarus[10] for 18 of the 22 rounds, with a best finish of seventh place in the sprint race at the Hungaroring.

IndyCar

Daly drove in the 2013 Indianapolis 500 for A. J. Foyt Enterprises. He finished the race in 22nd position.

In 2015, Daly subbed in for Rocky Moran Jr. at the Long Beach GP with Dale Coyne Racing. He then returned for the 2015 Indianapolis 500 in the Smithfield Foods "Fueled by Bacon" special run by Schmidt Peterson Motorsports,[11] but was forced to retire before the green flag due to a mechanical failure.[12] He replaced James Hinchcliffe for 3 rounds following Hinchcliffe's injury from a practice crash leading up to the Indy 500.[13] He finished sixth at the second race at Detroit.

In 2016, Daly raced the full 2016 IndyCar season for Dale Coyne Racing.[14] He led 56 laps at 5 different races, and finished 2nd in the first race at Detroit for his first career IndyCar podium. For the 2017 season, Daly raced the number 4 car for A. J. Foyt Enterprises.[15]

Daly lost his ride with Foyt for 2018, but was signed by Coyne for the 2018 Indianapolis 500. His No. 17 car, fielded in conjunction with Thom Burns Racing, was sponsored by the United States Air Force.[16]

In 2019, Andretti Autosport signed Daly to enter the Indianapolis 500, where he finished tenth. On June 4, 2019, he replaced Max Chilton at Carlin for the Texas Motor Speedway race, finishing 11th.[17]. Daly would replace Chilton at the remaining oval races for the season, with a best result of 6th place at Gateway. On August 29, 2019, Daly was announced as a replacement for Marcus Ericsson for the round at Portland as Ericsson had been called up by Alfa Romeo to be on reserve driver duty at the F1 race at Spa.[18] Daly would also return to Andretti Autosport for the season finale.

On December 9, 2019 it was revealed that, for the 2020 IndyCar Series season, Daly was signed to contest the 12 road and street circuit races in the No. 20 Ed Carpenter Racing entry. Daly was also contracted to compete in the 2020 Indianapolis 500 in an additional Ed Carpenter Racing entry.[19] On March 10, 2020, Carlin announced they have signed Daly to compete in the remaining oval races in the No. 59 entry, thus giving Daly full-time status for the 2020 season.[20]

Daly finished 6th at the 2020 season opener at Texas Motor Speedway.

Formula One

In May 2012, Daly performed a straight line aero test for Force India at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire, England.[21]

MRF Challenge

Daly won the 2012–13 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship in India, claiming four wins and two further podiums.

NASCAR

On May 11, 2018, Daly announced he would be making his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut at Road America in August, driving the No. 6 Ford Mustang for Roush Fenway Racing with sponsorship from Eli Lilly and Company. Daly and Roush teammate Ryan Reed are both Type 1 diabetics.[22] Before the race, Lilly ended their sponsorship of Daly after a controversy involving his father Derek.[23]

Personal life

Daly is the son of Derek Daly, the former Formula One driver, as well as stepson of Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Doug Boles.[24]

Daly was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes early in his career. He was sponsored by Lilly Diabetes in the 2016 Indianapolis 500.

Daly appeared on the 30th season of The Amazing Race, teaming with fellow IndyCar driver Alexander Rossi[25] where they finished in 4th place.

Daly's first cousin, Nicola Daly, is an Ireland women's field hockey international and was a member of the squad that won the silver medal at the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup. She also works as a data engineer for Juncos Racing. [26][27][28][29][30]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Lap	Podiums	Points	Position
2009	Star Mazda Championship	Andersen Racing	13	1	1	3	6	416	3rd
2010	Star Mazda Championship	Juncos Racing	13	7	9	7	12	539	1st
2011	GP3 Series	Carlin Motorsport	16	0	0	0	0	10	17th
	Indy Lights	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	5	1	1	2	2	145	13th
2012	GP3 Series	Lotus GP	16	1	0	0	5	106	6th
	Masters of Formula 3	Double R Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	15th
2012–13	MRF Challenge Formula 2000	MRF Racing	10	4	0	1	6	164	1st
2013	GP3 Series	ART Grand Prix	16	1	1	1	6	126	3rd
	GP2 Series	Hilmer Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	2	26th
	IndyCar Series	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	1	0	0	0	0	11	34th
	Indy Lights	Team Moore Racing	1	0	0	0	1	35	13th
2014	GP2 Series	Venezuela GP Lazarus	18	0	0	0	0	2	26th
	United SportsCar Championship - PC	RSR Racing	1	0	0	0	0	1	57th
2015	United SportsCar Championship - PC	Performance Tech Motorsports	6	0	0	1	3	170	8th
	IndyCar Series	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	4	0	0	0	0	81	28th
		Dale Coyne Racing	1	0	0	0	0
2016	IndyCar Series	Dale Coyne Racing	16	0	0	0	1	313	18th
2017	IndyCar Series	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	17	0	0	0	0	305	18th
	WeatherTech SportsCar Championship - PC	Starworks Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	28	22nd
2018	IndyCar Series	Thom Burns Racing	1	0	0	0	0	58	29th
		Harding Racing	3	0	0	0	0
	NASCAR Xfinity Series	Roush Fenway Racing	1	0	0	0	0	6	77th
2019	IndyCar Series	Andretti Autosport	2	0	0	0	0	149	24th
		Carlin	4	0	0	0	0
		Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	1	0	0	0	0

American open-wheel racing results

(key)

Star Mazda Championship

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Rank	Points
2009	Andersen Racing	SEB 3	VIR 5	MMP 24	NJ1 1	NJ2 8	WIS Ret	IOW 2	ILL 3	ILL 5	QUE 14	ONT 2	ATL 2	LAG 4	3rd	416
2010	Juncos Racing	SEB 3	STP 1	LAG 1	ORP 1	IOW 1	NJ1 3	NJ2 4	ACC 3	ACC 1	TRO 3	ROA 1	MOS 1	ATL 3	1st	539

Indy Lights

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2011	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	STP 2	ALA 11	LBH 1	INDY	MIL	IOW	TOR	EDM1	EDM2	TRO 13	NHM	BAL 14	KTY	LVS	13th	145
2013	Team Moore Racing	STP	ALA	LBH	INDY	MIL	IOW	POC	TOR	MDO	BAL	HOU 3	FON			13th	35

IndyCar Series

(key)

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Rank	Points
2013	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Dallara DW12	Honda	STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY 22	DET	DET	TXS	MIL	IOW	POC	TOR	TOR	MDO	SNM	BAL	HOU	HOU	FON	34th	11
2015	Dale Coyne Racing			STP	NLA	LBH 17	ALA	IMS															28th	81
	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports								INDY 33	DET 19	DET 6	TXS	TOR 12	FON	MIL	IOW	MDO	POC	SNM
2016	Dale Coyne Racing			STP 13	PHX 16	LBH 13	ALA 20	IMS 6	INDY 29	DET 2	DET 6	RDA 21	IOW 21	TOR 15	MDO 6	POC 16	TXS 21	WGL 4	SNM 21				18th	313
2017	A. J. Foyt Enterprises		Chevrolet	STP 15	LBH 16	ALA 18	PHX 14	IMS 17	INDY 30	DET 22	DET 12	TEX 7	ROA 15	IOW 19	TOR 17	MDO 10	POC 14	GTW 5	WGL 11	SNM 10			18th	305
2018	Thom Burns Racing		Honda	STP	PHX	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY 21	DET	DET	TXS	RDA	IOW									29th	58
	Harding Racing		Chevrolet												TOR 13	MDO 22	POC 15	GTW	POR	SNM
2019	Andretti Autosport		Honda	STP	COA	ALA	LBH	IMS	INDY 10	DET	DET									LAG 22			24th	149
	Carlin		Chevrolet									TXS 11	RDA	TOR	IOW 13	MDO	POC 11	GTW 6
	Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports		Honda																POR 21
2020	Carlin		Chevrolet	TXS 6				IOW 8	IOW 13		GTW	GTW											14th*	111*
	Ed Carpenter Racing				IMS 12	ROA 21	ROA 18			INDY			IMS	IMS	STP

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2013	Dallara	Honda	31	22	A. J. Foyt Enterprises
2015	Dallara	Honda	23	33	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
2016	Dallara	Honda	24	29	Dale Coyne Racing
2017	Dallara	Chevrolet	26	30	A. J. Foyt Enterprises
2018	Dallara	Honda	33	21	Dale Coyne Racing dba Thom Burns Racing
2019	Dallara	Honda	11	10	Andretti Autosport

• Daly did not start the 2015 Indianapolis 500 due to losing an engine during the pace laps.

Complete GP3 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	D.C.	Points
2011	Carlin Motorsport	IST FEA 21	IST SPR 25	CAT FEA 21	CAT SPR 22	VAL FEA 12	VAL SPR 7	SIL FEA 13	SIL SPR 7	NÜR FEA 6	NÜR SPR 8	HUN FEA 13	HUN SPR 11	SPA FEA 5	SPA SPR 7	MNZ FEA 6	MNZ SPR Ret	17th	10
2012	Lotus GP	CAT FEA 6	CAT SPR 1	MON FEA 23	MON SPR Ret	VAL FEA 11	VAL SPR Ret	SIL FEA 5	SIL SPR 2	HOC FEA 2	HOC SPR 3	HUN FEA 6	HUN SPR 9	SPA FEA 7	SPA SPR 3	MNZ FEA 4	MNZ SPR 11	6th	106
2013	ART Grand Prix	CAT FEA 3	CAT SPR 5	VAL FEA 1	VAL SPR 8	SIL FEA 22	SIL SPR Ret	NÜR FEA 10	NÜR SPR 9	HUN FEA 2	HUN SPR 8	SPA FEA 2	SPA SPR 2	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR 8	YMC FEA 4	YMC SPR 3	3rd	126

Complete GP2 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2013	Hilmer Motorsport	SEP FEA 13	SEP SPR 7	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HOC FEA	HOC SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	MRN FEA	MRN SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	26th	2
2014	Venezuela GP Lazarus	BHR FEA 12	BHR SPR Ret	CAT FEA 18	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA 13	MON SPR 10	RBR FEA 18	RBR SPR 11	SIL FEA 14	SIL SPR 10	HOC FEA 21	HOC SPR 20	HUN FEA 13	HUN SPR 7	SPA FEA Ret	SPA SPR 19	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	YMC FEA 20	YMC SPR 15	26th	2

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Year	Entrant	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Rank	Points
2014	RSR Racing	PC	Oreca FLM09	Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8.	DAY 8	SEB	LGA	KAN	WGL	IMS	ELK	VIR	COA	PET	57th	1
2015	Performance Tech Motorsports	PC	Oreca FLM09	Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8.	DAY	SEB 3	LGA	DET	WGL 7	MOS 7	LIM 7	ELK 2	COA 3	PET DNS	8th	170
2017	Starworks Motorsport	PC	Oreca FLM09	Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8.	DAY 4	SEB	COA	DET	WGL	MOS	ELK	PET			22nd	28

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Xfinity Series

NASCAR Xfinity Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	NXSC	Pts	Ref
2018	Roush Fenway Racing	6	Ford	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH	IOW	CHI	DAY	KEN	NHA	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA 31	DAR	IND	LVS	RCH	CLT	DOV	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM	77th	6	[31]

References

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2. "Conor Daly rolls on in Star Mazda at ORP". Racer. May 30, 2010. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
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20. Pruett, Marshall (March 10, 2020). "Daly to run ovals with Carlin". Racer.com. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
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23. "Conor Daly Loses Nascar Sponsorship Over Father's Racial Slur". New York Times. August 24, 2018. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
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26. "Hockey In The Fast Lane". www.thesportschronicle.com. August 16, 2018. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
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28. "Meet Ireland's Nicci Daly, Hockey Player & Motor Racing Engineer". www.wispsports.com. March 5, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
29. "Nicci Daly: "There has never been a better time for women to get in motorsport"". fast-and-fearless.com. August 5, 2018. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
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External links

• Official website
• Conor Daly on Twitter
• Conor Daly driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Conor Daly career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Adam Christodoulou	Star Mazda Championship Champion 2010	Succeeded by Tristan Vautier
Preceded by Inaugural	MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Champion 2012–13	Succeeded by Rupert Svendsen-Cook