Conor Daly’s return to the Juncos Hollinger Racing workforce the place he gained the 2010 Professional Mazda championship has been a little bit of a time warp for the 32-year-old veteran.
Since his time with Juncos on the Highway To Indy, Daly has amassed greater than 100 NTT IndyCar Sequence races over a span of 11 years, and with the late-season name to exchange Agustin Canapino within the No. 78 JHR Chevy, there’s been a brand new wrinkle to Juncos reunion.
In his Professional Mazda days, Ricardo Juncos’s younger son Leandro was all the time current inside his father’s workforce, cheering for Daly as he gained the workforce’s first main open-wheel championship. That little boy has not solely grown up, however he’s develop into a useful crew member engaged on Daly’s No. 78 program because the assistant race strategist.
“I’m very completely happy to work with Conor and be his strategist,” Leandro Juncos informed RACER. “It’s superb to mix nostalgia with the prospect to study from somebody so influential on the earth of motorsport.”
My how time flies for Daly and the Juncos household. Juncos Hollinger Racing
For Daly, it’s considerably surreal to contemplate how the workforce co-owner’s son, who was barely out of diapers again in 2010, is on his timing stand for Saturday night time’s Bommarito 500 race at World Huge Expertise Raceway and for the remainder of the season.
“Nicely, it’s the primary time in my profession the place I’ve felt extraordinarily previous,” Daly stated with amusing. “Like, I knew that my IndyCar profession was on the again finish, however now I’m like, okay, my engineer Adam Blocker is 27, so he’s youthful than me, after which I’ve bought Leandro informing me about essential issues, finding out the typical lap occasions of everybody on the market, telling me sensible issues.”
Daly begins ninth for the night time race at WWTR.
“He’s a wise younger child, clearly, grew up round racing and what a cool deal,” he continued. “After which he’s proper subsequent to his dad, Ricardo, who’s calling me out and in of the pits. It’s a surreal scenario. But additionally, racing is a household. It’s a cool deal.”
