 There are those who have hit the wall at Indy, and there are those who will. It's not a question of if it's when. It's not a question of if it's when. Welcome Conor Daly. Before anything, I just wanted to say that Conor was the guy that welcomed me last year the best. Took me out for dinner when I was on my own. I had to haul the bus, but I was a bit on my own in the US, and Conor really looked up to me, so thank you, brother. Hey, of course. You know what? It's important to make sure people know that racing over here is a lot of fun. We respect wherever you came from, you know what I mean? We respect the racing heritage, the racing history. Basically, what we're gonna do is talk about your career and get people to know you. All right, let's do it. They may know you from nightclubs. No, no, that would never happen. No. You were born in Indiana. Yes. So that Wikipedia got that part right. Yep. How did you start racing, and when, and how? Not the boring speech that you did normally. Give me good ones. No, I mean, honestly, it all started with my dad, who was, of course, he was a Formula One driver as well, so my dad did a ton of racing, but he retired when I was born, so I never saw him race. Okay. So I was born in 91. His last race was the Seabream 12 Hours in 92, and so that was it. And you don't remember when you were born. I did not remember. You should, I mean, I remember. Yeah, it's tough. And then, you know what's sad though, too, is he tested, in 1994, I think he tested the all-active Williams Formula One car, and he got to drive that, and again, I was too young to remember that, but I would have loved to have seen that. So I was always around racing, and I mean, I'm the oldest brother of my three brothers as well, so we got into go-karting, like everyone else, when I was 10, and that was it. That was all we did is go to the go-kart track. Your mom, she was on the water. Yeah, she was a water gal. Yeah, she raced jet skis, but again, when I was young. Super fast, no, no, I go jet ski like. She was a world champion. Yeah, like a world champion jet ski racer, which is crazy. And I grew up on a lake, so my parent, even my dad, he's obviously a racer, and so he would get out on the skis too, but he broke all of his legs racing, so it doesn't work as well when you have a bunch of broken legs trying to race jet skis. And yeah, they were all very talented on the water, and I hate the water. Cannot do it. I raced a boat once, and I don't think I ever really wanna do it again. Way too scary. It's not okay. You flip it or you finish on the grass. Well, we didn't finish on the grass, and we didn't die, so that's all that matters. Okay. So you started go karting like 10, pretty much like all of us do, and then in the States? Yes, so it did all the racing over here, right? But obviously like my dad's Irish, so he knew the path to Formula One as you do, and so I had kind of won all the championships over here that I could win, the road to Indy stuff, and then I was 18, and it was like, all right, well, if we wanna try to go to Formula One, we have to go to Europe. At the time it was GP3. You know, got a great opportunity to go over there, raced with Carl in my first year, and then ART for the next two, and ART is obviously a very, very good team. And your friend in French. And I learned a lot of French. Lot of French. We won't disclose any of that in the video. Yeah, it's rough around the edges, my French, but I did learn, and I did spend a lot of time in France, so I mean, that was really an interesting experience, like in my career, obviously, because you're going up against the best of the best. I was seeing you guys like you in Formula One and anyone else that was over there trying to do that, and to win races over there, I think is really special, obviously. In GP3, GP2, that's the top for the single-seater series. So to be able to be beating guys that we know are in Formula One now, and just having a shot at a championship over there was really cool, and I learned a lot. And I think coming back over here, it was definitely worth it to go over there, and at least get close. Not close enough, but we got close. Yeah, you did GP2. I drove in Formula One car a few times. Yeah, you did. You did. Well, anyone that doesn't know that yet for Sidya, was named Racing Point and now Aston Martin. So GP3, you almost won the championship, you were close. Yes. It was one of those championships. One of the top seven was like within two points of each other. We were leading the championship at Monza, and I'll never forget one of the cars at the first chicane came and wiped out like six different cars, and just cut my right front tire. And so you know when you DNF and Race One, Race Two then is also very much affected. So like we went from effectively leading the championship, and then Danny Kiviak won that race and then like took a huge lead, because like Sines was also involved and like he was fighting for the championship, and then my teammate was also involved. And like the next day, I still think is one of the best races of my career. We started like 28th, and like I finished eighth and set fast lap of the race and like scored, you know, two points or whatever, but like it was all that we could do, you know. And so we finished third in the championship. So it's all right. One question that I have, which I have all the time as European into the US, but I would like the opposite one, the American driver into European driver, what's the difference? It is a very different environment. Because obviously I think everyone here is mostly welcoming. I think everything is like a way more open, right? The paddocks are way more open. Apparently my welcome is overstayed, apparently. I don't know, I don't know. You didn't hear any of that? I mean, look, everyone's gonna fight someone at some point. That's what motor sports all about. I wanna fight people too. Good, but over there, like, you know, when you're in GP3 and GP2, you're like separated from F1 and like you never really get to go, but unless you're like, you know, you're a development driver or something like that. And even the fans, like, if you get an F1 paddock pass, it's very, very special, right? We have everyone over here. So it's like, it's a very different environment. And I also found that like, when racing GP3, there was not a lot of happiness. Like, even if you win, it's like, all right, that's what you're supposed to do. You know what I mean? But like, to be fair, I mean, they're right. Like, it's like, okay, yeah. Like, I'm sorry that I finished second today. Like, that sucks. But like, it's something that I think if you go over there, you learn like very quickly that like, there's only room for a few people at the top of the sport, right? There's seven billion people in the world and only 20 people get to suit up for Formula One every weekend. There's only 26 of us that get to suit up here. And there's a lot of young drivers that are out there trying to do it. So you've got to learn that pretty quickly. And I'm actually very glad that I went over there to experience that because I think it definitely, toughen me up a little bit, but like, I get it. It's hard. Like what we're doing here is really difficult to beat all the rest of the other people. That's clear. What I love about the US is if you have a crash and turn one of whatever in a race, they will put the car back to try to repair it. Yeah, exactly. And send you back and you're like 14 laps down, 20 laps down. Like, what's the point here? The race never stops. No, I just like, we came on Sunday to race. We're going to go racing. What ever happened. You know, I think that's very different from Europe where, you know, drivers are like, yeah, save the engine, save it. Just don't go racing. As you say, it's very much more unboxed when I say there's more. I don't know, passion is involving both ways, but it's more, I don't know, you can fit it more maybe. Yeah, I mean, like you saw the Indy 500, right? Like it's just, there's something about it that just like it feels special and like everyone is having a good time. You know what I mean? It wasn't like a, you know, like, oh, that person's cooler than that person. It's like, we are all here. We made this race. Like, it doesn't matter if you're starting in the last row or the front row. It's still an awesome introduction. Like I've started in the last row before I've started in the middle. Like wherever it is, it's just like so, like such a cool environment. And you're good at leading that race. Well, I'm fine. Two years in a row and I didn't lead the race. I like that place a lot, and I'm learning, I'm learning. Yeah, it's tough. I mean, that's the other thing coming from Europe, you know, when I look at ovals and I look on TV and it's left, it's flat, it's boring, it's easy. It was tough. Yeah, no, it's... This year was way harder than that. Great, that's why I had a good rookie year. Yeah, it was, yeah. You might've came in at the toughest rookie year, so sorry, pal. Yeah, well, I failed and I did my first 250 miles of Indiana Police. There's a saying at Indie, it's there are those who have hit the wall at Indie and there are those who will. Well, it's not a question of if it's when. So you know what, you got it out of the way. Yeah, I did. And I wanted it to be the exception. I was like, I already had my big shunt, I don't need any... I said the same thing. And yeah, I was at 200 miles an hour into the wall. So safe for very, very good. Yeah, you feel all right? You good? I didn't feel bad. There you go. Honestly, I didn't feel bad. Pain of muscle aches on the next day, which I was very... What did that point do is... Was Detroit worse? Yeah, Detroit worse. 100 gene Detroit. So that was a big one. I heard it. But the same thing, I wasn't left calf, supposing left calf and a bit of the neck, but yeah, it wasn't too bad. Everyone's sore. Crashing hurts. Crashing hurts. It's part of the job. You know, if you try to get to 100%, these days we give you 102 and these days you're gonna be at 98, so... I don't have to explain that to you, man. You had probably one of the biggest crashes as of anyway. Yeah, ever. So true. No one has to explain that to you. No, but you know, that's another mentality difference here. If you crash, it's not a big deal. You've tried and you failed. It's okay. I feel like in Europe, if you crash, people are really like, why did you crash? Why did you do that? I think it depends on where you're at in your career though, because sometimes... I remember when I was a rookie in IndyCar and I obviously didn't, I was much younger and I was like, all right, you can't make mistakes, right? But I do believe that when you come over and you immediately prove yourself, like you're on the pole or you get on the podium and people understand that you're a good driver and you can do it, I think then it's like, you know what, if something happens, then it happens. But I definitely know what you're talking about and over there, it's like, oh, if you crash, I mean, you might as well be, you're out. Yeah, you're a loser. You're done. You're saving and it's very different here. The drivers, I mean, imagine if I was doing that with Kimi Reichen and Rod Evu with Kimi. I mean, I've never happened. I may try, I may try. I got to interview Kimi once after he won the U.S. Grand Prix at Coda. Yeah? Yeah, I got to interview him after the race. 2018? Yep, 2019. I was doing the post-trace show, Will Buxton, and I was like, well, Kimi, you're the coolest guy I've ever met in my life, what do you think about? I asked him, I said, how does the Ferrari, what made it better today? And he's like, oh, we were just faster. I was like, all right, that's all we needed. Now I'm an idiot, I feel bad for asking that question. I was hoping to get some nice technical response, like, well, we've been working a lot on our aerodynamics. But it was nice to talk to him. I don't think he has any idea who I am, but it was fun. So we are middle of season in the car. I believe you're going to be with us next year. Yeah, I think so, yeah. And Midget, when are we going to the Chili Bowl? The Chili Bowl is in January. Yes. And it's in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I will never be doing it again. I've done with midget racing. Well, then that, that's my carryover, because I was only coming a few right there. I did six front flips the last time I was in a midget, and it hurt really badly. And I was leading the race, and I just flipped over. I don't know why that happened. I'm going to do Baja 1000. Would you like to come with me as a coach now? No way, am I wearing a cat for that race? Oh, no. You really have to wear a cat-a-footer for that, right? What? Cat-a-footer? The thing you put in your, yeah, to pee, yeah. Just doesn't sound like me, but you never know. Thanks for coming. No problem. 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