NTT IndyCar Series regular Conor Daly rejoins Allen Bestwick in the CBS broadcast booth for the SRX race at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway this Saturday, July 9.
Daly was the color commentator for SRX’s first two races of the season before missing this past week at Stafford Motor Speedway due to his full-time job, racing the No. 20 car for Ed Carpenter Racing. IndyCar had a race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course this past weekend, so Willy T. Ribbs filled the gap at Stafford with Daly away.
Daly was a new addition to the CBS team this season after James Hinchcliffe, Danica Patrick and Dario Franchitti split time as the color commentator last year. The opportunity helped launch Hinchcliffe into his current role with NBC’s coverage of IndyCar, so naturally, Daly turned to him for advice while prepping to be a broadcaster for SRX.
“Hinch obviously did a great job here in the booth, and he’s doing a great job now for NBC,” Daly told Fronstretch. “He’s got a lot of great stuff to say, and he does a great job with it. So I just tried to ask a few questions.”
But why did CBS choose Daly to be the replacement?
“I actually don’t really know how I got thought of for this role,” Daly said. “But Pam [Miller], who is with CBS, had worked with my dad before in commentating, and she’s worked with a lot of people I know. She’s known me since I was a child. I don’t know how it happened, but I got a call and I said, ‘Absolutely, I’m definitely down to do this.’”
Daly’s father Derek formerly competed in Formula One, CART and IMSA before becoming a broadcaster. But the younger Daly has established himself as a fan favorite on his own, thanks in large part to his many media projects that allow him to share his energetic yet relatable personality.
Daly has been on The Pat McAfee Show and has been sponsored by McAfee in the past — they seem to know each other pretty well. Daly’s podcast with comedian Joey Mulinaro, Speed Street, was recently picked up by Dirty Mo Media. He was even on the 30th season of CBS’ Amazing Race, where he and Alexander Rossi were teammates and finished fourth.
“CBS had a relationship with him from the Amazing Race when he and Alexander Rossi did it together, Bestwick told Frontstretch. “They brought his name up, and I said, ‘Yeah, I’d like that. That’d be fun.’ Good driver, good personality. And how could you go wrong putting a mullet on…
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