Guest
Conor Daly
IndyCar Driver, Podcaster
Conor Daly is an American IndyCar driver and a second-generation racer, the son of former Formula 1 and IndyCar driver Derek Daly. Raised in Noblesville, Indiana, he has raced across nearly every rung of motorsport, from a Star Mazda title and a GP3 win in Barcelona to racing in GP2 (now F2) with current F1 drivers Carlos Sainz and Valtteri Bottas and also being an F1 reserve driver with Force India Formula 1 Team in 2012. Over a 13-year IndyCar career, Daly has driven for teams including Ed Carpenter Racing, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Dale Coyne Racing and Juncos Hollinger Racing, and remains one of the paddock's most respected oval specialists. He returned to Dreyer & Reinbold Racing for the 2026 Indianapolis 500, his 13th career start in the race. Off the track, he hosts the Speed Street podcast for Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s Dirty Mo Media.
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In this conversation, Conor is unflinchingly honest about what it actually felt like to leave home young with no safety net, the brutal financial reality behind IndyCar and the Indy 500 that most fans never see, his time driving for Ed Carpenter Racing, and the advice his own younger self would give him today: don't go to Europe. Now chasing a full-time seat for 2027, and by his own admission at the peak of his career, Conor opens up about unfinished business, the trajectory shifts that can end a driver's career overnight, and what it means to still be fighting for the seat he always believed he deserved.
Sachin and Conor go deep on the moments that shaped the work - the visible wins, the invisible costs, and the frameworks that survived the experience.
