AutoSportRadio.com 2024 Show for March 14th

AutoSportRadio.com 2024 Show for March 14th, Guests; Conor Daly and Mike Maurini

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Conor Daly,
"When Dennis first called me, he told me he believed I could win the Indy 500 and all he wanted going into 2024 was the best chance to win as a team. As a driver, what more could you want?" Daly said in a team release. "To be teamed up with a champion like Ryan (Hunter-Reay) as well I believe truly makes us a threat in the month of May."
Having shared the 6th row on the grid with his new teammate a year ago in the 500 after qualifying 16th, Daly registered his second consecutive top-10 finish in the Greatest Spectacle in Racing a year ago, less than two weeks before he and ECR parted ways. His best 500 finish among his 10 previous starts came in 2022, where he took 6th.
The Noblesville native raced four times a year ago as a substitute for an injured Simon Pagenaud at Meyer Shank Racing at Mid-Ohio and the Iowa doubleheader as well as with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing at World Wide Technology Raceway after the team cut ties with Jack Harvey late in the year.
During his brief stint with MSR, Daly and Hunter-Reay touched late in a race at Iowa, nudging the former into the wall with two laps to go, in a move that Hunter-Reay later blamed on his spotter and which Daly called "probably not malicious but oddly ironic."

Mike Maurini
“It has been a busy off-season, but we are anxious to get going,” explained HMD Motorsports President Mike Maurini. “Everyone at the shop from the mechanics, to engineering, to management has worked very hard through the winter to ensure that we are ready to start the season. The excitement for the first race of the season is here, but also for when the team comes home as we will return to our new 80,000 square foot race shop.”
HMD Motorsports, the reigning two-time series champions, will debut a record-setting ten-car lineup in the season opener comprised of four veterans: 2023 INDY NXT Rookie of the Year Nolan Siegel, 2023 race winner Reece Gold, Christian Bogle, Josh Pierson, and six rookies including the 2023 USF Pro 2000 series champion Myles Rowe, Niels Koolen, Jonathan Browne, Nolan Allaer, 2023 FR Americas Champion Callum Hedge, and multi-time FIA F3 race winner Caio Collet.