Juncos Hollinger Racing’s Conor Daly says that it’s the small things that count when you have a full-time INDYCAR program.
The 33 year old Noblesville native joins Sting Ray Robb at Juncos Hollinger Racing for 2025 and speaking during INDYCAR Content Day this week, Daly who spent last season with a number of different teams said that just having his own physical seat will him and the team and things like steering wheel grips.
Yeah, honestly it definitely feels a little different only because of kind of — we got a taste of it last year. It’s almost like I got a little pregame ceremony or something like that. It all happened so fast, though, and it was so much fun.
Now it’s like, oh, we can — I can make a new seat, my first new seat since 2020, which is ridiculous. My seat has been painful to be in for the last however many years. But guess what, it costs money to make a seat, and none of these teams that I’m going to jump in for one race are going to spend money to get me a seat.
I can do something like that, which is very helpful. I can have my own steering wheel grips. That’s very nice. All those small things are — again, all of the people that are winning and contending, you have to have all those things because this is the most competitive championship right now, and it’s like, everything has to be perfect. Everything has to be right.
It’s just doing all those things feels right. And just getting a little desk in the office. I’m going to get my own desk in the engineering office. I want to have a computer so I can finally be fully integrated in the team systems. All of those things are what you are supposed to do as a racing driver at the highest level.
That’s going to be nice to be a part of. I get to work with my engineer that I’ve worked with for however many races we did last year, and I think he’s a really good young guy, and that team over there is a good group of people.
It’s just all the things that you want to have as you move forward, and yeah, we just kind of see how it plays out really.
Daly and Robb were at Juncos Hollinger Racing’s race shop in Speedway, IN on Monday for their seat fittings as they prepare to unveil their car liveries on Wednesday.
Daly scored Juncos Hollinger Racing’s first podium finish in Milwaukee last season.