{"id":14891,"date":"2023-07-02T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=14891"},"modified":"2023-08-27T10:50:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T14:50:20","slug":"indycar-conor-daly-to-sub-for-pagenaud-for-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/07\/02\/indycar-conor-daly-to-sub-for-pagenaud-for-race\/","title":{"rendered":"IndyCar: Conor Daly To Sub For Pagenaud at Mid-Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Conor Daly<\/strong> is getting a second chance at racing in IndyCar in 2023<\/h3>\n<p>It was announced around 8:30 this morning via Meyer Shank Racing&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeyerShankRac\/status\/1675481714301206528?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> that their driver <strong>Simon Pagenaud<\/strong>, who had a brake failure during yesterday morning&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/07\/01\/indycar-power-and-team-penske-top-charts-after-second-practice-at-mid-ohio\/\" target=\"_self\">practice session<\/a>\u00a0has not been medically cleared to compete and MSR has decided to put former Ed Carpenter Racing driver <strong>Conor Daly<\/strong> in the No. 60 Honda as Pagenaud&#8217;s replacement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonpagenaud?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@simonpagenaud<\/a> will be re-evaluated prior to the Honda Indy Toronto. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oir6LXwI38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/oir6LXwI38<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NTT INDYCAR SERIES (@IndyCar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndyCar\/status\/1675484057050685441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>A Quick Decision<\/h3>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/meyershankracing.com\/2023\/07\/master-9-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSR Team Owner<\/a> Mike Shank,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First and foremost, I have to speak to the safety of these cars, to walk away from an accident like that is incredible and we cannot thank everyone at IndyCar, the AMR safety team and the IndyCar medical team for everything they did to get Simon out and evaluated as quickly as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is obviously not a scenario that we had planned for, but everyone at MSR has pitched in to get our backup car ready for Sunday,\u201d continued Shank. \u201cIt\u2019s actually Helio\u2019s Indy 500 car and the one he won the 500 with in 2021. We have to thank Conor for being here and stepping into this, he\u2019s been super great through all of the chaos. Now we will get back on our feet and see what we can do in the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14895\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/07\/Simon20Pagenaud20-20Honda20Indy2020020at20Mid-Ohio20-20By_20James20Black_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m85857-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Conor Daly will step in for Simon Pageanud, who is seen here driving the No. 60 Honda. (James Black\/Penske Entertainment)\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/07\/Simon20Pagenaud20-20Honda20Indy2020020at20Mid-Ohio20-20By_20James20Black_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m85857-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/07\/Simon20Pagenaud20-20Honda20Indy2020020at20Mid-Ohio20-20By_20James20Black_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m85857-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/07\/Simon20Pagenaud20-20Honda20Indy2020020at20Mid-Ohio20-20By_20James20Black_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m85857-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/07\/Simon20Pagenaud20-20Honda20Indy2020020at20Mid-Ohio20-20By_20James20Black_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m85857-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/07\/Simon20Pagenaud20-20Honda20Indy2020020at20Mid-Ohio20-20By_20James20Black_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m85857-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/07\/Simon20Pagenaud20-20Honda20Indy2020020at20Mid-Ohio20-20By_20James20Black_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m85857-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/07\/Simon20Pagenaud20-20Honda20Indy2020020at20Mid-Ohio20-20By_20James20Black_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m85857-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Daly&#8217;s History with Mike Shank<\/h3>\n<p>Daly will climb into the No. 60 Honda with plenty of experience under his belt from previous seasons at Mid-Ohio. When the green flag drops today, this will be Daly&#8217;s eighth start at the course, with his best finish at Mid-Ohio coming during his Rookie season of 2016 when he finished sixth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously I have to think about Simon, you hate to see someone wreck like that,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/meyershankracing.com\/2023\/07\/master-9-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Daly. \u201cThe most important thing is to get him as healthy as possible, as soon as possible. This is his car and his group of folks and I am here to do the best job that I can for this team. I\u2019ve known Mike (Shank) for a long time and I\u2019ve tested for his sports car team many years ago. I\u2019ve always had a lot of respect for this organization. It\u2019s an honor to be a part of this group and fill in \u2013 we will just do the best job that we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5>Featured Image Credit: Paul Hurley\/Penske Entertainment<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor Daly is getting a second chance at racing in IndyCar in 2023 It was announced around 8:30 this morning via Meyer Shank Racing&#8217;s Twitter that their driver Simon Pagenaud, who had a brake failure during yesterday morning&#8217;s practice session\u00a0has not been medically cleared to compete and MSR has decided to put former Ed Carpenter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4580,"featured_media":14894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Conor Daly subbing for Simon Pagenaud for race","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"300","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,1663],"tags":[1833,1820,1683,1188,166],"class_list":["post-14891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-indycar","category-ntt-indycar-series","tag-2023-ntt-data-indycar-series","tag-conor-daly","tag-indy-200","tag-mid-ohio-sports-car-course","tag-simon-pagenaud"],"modified_by":"Nathan Reynolds","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}