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Ryan Hunter-Reay will replace Conor Daly at Ed Carpenter Racing for the upcoming IndyCar race at Road America. Hunter-Reay, who has 18 career IndyCar wins, including the 2014 Indianapolis 500 and a championship in 2012, will drive ECR's Chevrolet-powered #20 entry. Team owner Ed Carpenter hopes that Hunter-Reay's experience and technical abilities will help improve the team's competitiveness.
Ryan Hunter-Reay has joined Ed Carpenter Racing's IndyCar team to help identify weaknesses and build for the future. Hunter-Reay will partner with Rinus VeeKay and Carpenter in a third entry on the ovals. The move comes after the team and former driver Conor Daly split following a disappointing run during the seven opening races of the season. Hunter-Reay's role is focused on assisting ECR's roster of engineering talent with less of an aim being placed on achieving specific on-track results over the remainder of the calendar.
Ryan Hunter-Reay will replace Conor Daly in the No. 20 Bitnile.com Chevrolet for Ed Carpenter Racing starting at the Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America presented by AMR on June 18. Hunter-Reay, a former INDYCAR SERIES champion and Indianapolis 500 winner, brings a vast amount of successful experience to ECR. He last competed full time in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES in 2021 and will race alongside Rinus VeeKay, driver of the No. 21 Bitnile.com Chevrolet.
Ed Carpenter Racing and driver Conor Daly have "mutually agreed to end their relationship, effective immediately,” according to a news release from the IndyCar team, ending Daly's three-plus year tenure. The No. 20 Chevy entry will continue to run full-time the remainder of the 2023 IndyCar season by a driver (or drivers) to be named at a later date. Daly is 20th in points following his 15th-place finish in the Detroit Grand Prix on Sunday, just his third top-15 finish of the year.
Ed Carpenter Racing has announced that Conor Daly will no longer be driving for the team in the 2021 IndyCar season. Daly has struggled for speed this year, with his best result being 8th at the Indianapolis 500. Daly first joined forces with Carpenter’s team in 2020 before getting a full-time opportunity in ’21 and finished sixth in last year’s Indy 500 with the team. The team has not yet announced who will replace Daly for the upcoming event at Road America.
Ed Carpenter Racing and driver Conor Daly have mutually agreed to end their relationship, with the team set to field another driver in the No. 20 Bitnile.com Chevrolet starting at the Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America presented by AMR on June 18. Daly competed in all 17 races for the team in 2022 and the first seven races this season, but the team has not been performing at the level they are capable of this year. No replacement driver for the team’s No. 20 car has been named yet.
Takuma Sato of Chip Ganassi Racing remained at the top of the speed charts midway through Indy 500 Fast Friday, but four-lap averages produced by rivals suggest that CGR will have a fight on its hands when qualifying begins. Conor Daly set an early four-lap benchmark of 232.012mph, which held until Kyle Kirkwood of Andretti Autosport reeled off a pair of 233mph laps backed up by a couple in the high-231mph range to string together a 232.613mph four-lap average that dethroned Will Power. Rinus VeeKay of Ed Carpenter Racing raised the four-lap benchmark to 232.898mph, which remained the standard as the session entered its second half.