Conor Daly scores best IndyCar finish in 5 years in GMR Grand Prix at IMS

INDIANAPOLIS -- Noblesville native Conor Daly survived the chaos, carnage and rain to finish 5th, marking his best NTT IndyCar Series finish since the race at Gateway in 2017 where he finished 5th.

Daly, running his first full IndyCar season with the same team in back-to-back years since 2017, qualified an impressive 4th after making it into the Fast 6. Daly's pace was much better than teammate Rinus VeeKay's after VeeKay managed only a 15th place starting position.

Even with good qualifying and race pace, Daly's GMR Grand Prix was anything but easy.

"I think that was my first rain race since 2015," said Daly in the post-race news conference. Not only was it Daly's first rain race in seven years, but it was also the first official wet race for the aeroscreen. It created a new challenge during the already tricky wet conditions.

"I've never seen anything like that before," said Daly in regards to racing in the rain with the aeroscreen. "It was like the water just stayed in the center of the screen."

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