Conor Daly

Conor Daly
Nationality	American
Born	(1991-12-15) December 15, 1991 Noblesville, Indiana (USA)
Related to	Derek Daly (father)
GP2 Series career
Debut season	2013
Current team	Venezuela GP Lazarus
Car no.	25
Former teams	Hilmer Motorsport
Starts	20
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	26th in 2013 & 2014
Previous series
2012–2011 2011 2009–2010	GP3 Series Indy Lights Star Mazda Championship
Championship titles
2012–13 2010	MRF Challenge Star Mazda Championship

Conor Daly (born December 15, 1991) is an American racing driver from Noblesville, Indiana. He is the son of Irish former Formula One and Champ Car driver Derek Daly.

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, 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 28 August 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

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

For 2012, Daly will continue 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, the Valencia Street Circuit feature race and he 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.

IndyCar

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

Formula One

In May 2012, Daly performed a straight line aero test for Force India at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire, England.^[10]

MRF Challenge

On October 27, 2012, Daly won the first race of the MRF Challenge series at Buddh International Circuit in India.

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	Indy Lights	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	5	1	1	2	2	145	13th
	GP3 Series	Carlin Motorsport	16	0	0	0	0	10	17th
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 Challenge	10	4	0	1	6	164	1st
2013	GP2 Series	Hilmer Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	2	26th
	GP3 Series	ART Grand Prix	16	1	1	1	6	126	3rd
	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
2015	IndyCar Series	Dale Coyne Racing	1	0	0	0	0	13*	26th*

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

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 HI13TT V6t	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	Dallara DW12	Honda HI15TT V6t	STP	NLA	LBH 17	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET	DET	TXS	TOR	FON	MIL	IOW	MDO	POC	SNM				26th*	13*

* Season still in progress

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2013	Dallara	Honda	31	22	A. J. Foyt Enterprises

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	TUR FEA 21	TUR SPR 25	ESP FEA 21	ESP SPR 22	VAL FEA 12	VAL SPR 7	GBR FEA 13	GBR SPR 7	GER FEA 6	GER SPR 8	HUN FEA 13	HUN SPR 11	BEL FEA 5	BEL SPR 7	ITA FEA 6	ITA SPR Ret	17th	10
2012	Lotus GP	ESP FEA 6	ESP SPR 1	MON FEA 23	MON SPR Ret	VAL FEA 11	VAL SPR Ret	GBR FEA 5	GBR SPR 2	GER FEA 2	GER SPR 3	HUN FEA 6	HUN SPR 9	BEL FEA 7	BEL SPR 3	ITA FEA 4	ITA SPR 11	6th	106
2013	ART Grand Prix	ESP FEA 3	ESP SPR 5	VAL FEA 1	VAL SPR 8	GBR FEA 22	GBR SPR Ret	GER FEA 10	GER SPR 9	HUN FEA 2	HUN SPR 8	BEL FEA 2	BEL SPR 2	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 8	ABU FEA 4	ABU 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	MYS FEA 13	MYS SPR 7	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	GBR FEA	GBR SPR	GER FEA	GER SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	BEL FEA	BEL SPR	ITA FEA	ITA SPR	SGP FEA	SGP SPR	ABU FEA	ABU SPR	26th	2
2014	Venezuela GP Lazarus	BHR FEA 12	BHR SPR Ret	ESP FEA 18	ESP SPR Ret	MON FEA 13	MON SPR 10	AUT FEA 18	AUT SPR 11	GBR FEA 14	GBR SPR 10	GER FEA 21	GER SPR 20	HUN FEA 13	HUN SPR 7	BEL FEA Ret	BEL SPR 19	ITA FEA	ITA SPR	RUS FEA	RUS SPR	ABU FEA 20	ABU SPR 15	26th	2

References

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 ?	MRF Challenge Champion 2012–13	Succeeded by Rupert Svendsen-Cook

2015 IndyCar Series season Teams Andretti Autosport Ganassi Penske CFH 25 de Silvestro / Wilson 26 Muñoz 27 Andretti 28 Hunter-Reay 8 Karam / Saavedra 9 Dixon 10 Kanaan 83 Kimball 1 Power 2 Montoya 3 Castroneves 22 Pagenaud 20 Filippi / Carpenter 21 / 67 Newgarden Coyne Foyt KV Schmidt Peterson Herta RLL 18 Daly / González 19 Dracone 14 Sato 41 Hawksworth 4 Coletti 11 Bourdais 5 Hinchcliffe 7 Jakes 98 Chaves 15 Rahal Other Drivers Bell (D&R), Clauson (Byrd), Hildebrand (CFH), Huertas (Coyne), Lazier (Lazier Partners), Mann (Coyne), Moran Jr. (Coyne), Servià (RLL) Races St. Petersburg Louisiana Long Beach Barber Indianapolis Road Course Indianapolis 500 Detroit Texas Toronto Fontana Milwaukee Iowa Mid-Ohio Pocono Sonoma Road to Indy Indy Lights Pro Mazda U.S. F2000