MAJOR INDYCAR ANNOUNCEMENT!

[@STC987]

I just read an amazing article on Racer that said one of my favorite drivers has a full time ride!! Congratulations Conor, this is one Christmas gift you definitely deserve. Your fans are extremely excited!!

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!!!

[@JeannetteDarlington]

Much as I enjoy seeing you in the occasional NASCAR race, I'm ecstatic that you've got a ride in Indycar for 2025. Your fans expect you to elevate JHR. We are pulling for you to get massive sponsorship.

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@arthurvillegas5586]

CD go get them have a Good season and help the team JHR and WIN a race and more. Continue your career I like to see you do well and WIN or finish up there

[@BlueAngelPhantoms]

Congratulations, Conor! This opportunity is so well deserved. I also want to applaud your insightful conversation with Simon Pagenaud. Your talent behind the mic is remarkable, and I hope IndyCar leadership and the community continue to leverage your skills as a key part of their growth strategy.

[@ConorDaly22]

glad you have enjoyed the show!

[@Grumpy_Stiltskin]

F yeah brother!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy for you👍 PS: You have to do a "Goodness Gracious " shirt!

[@ConorDaly22]

haha that is a good idea

[@barnigranero5882]

Yes!!!!! I knew you would do it. Fully deserved.

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!!

[@lazier96]

Super excited for you and cannot imagine the amount of work required to secure this ride. Fantastic! Yahoo!

[@TS0713]

I have been waiting for this news for the whole offseason, and it actually happened!

[@ConorDaly22]

been a lot of work to make this happen and still a lot ahead of us!

[@deepinthewoods8078]

Congratulations with this well-deserved opportunity at JHR!! 🇺🇲🇦🇷🇮🇪

[@ThisIsBradleyThomas]

Hope to cheer ya on from your pit stall this year!

[@wintwh]

Congrats! You deserve it. Merry Christmas!

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@michaelwalterman8280]

Congrats Conor! Can’t wait to watch you this year! You asked about what we would love to see as far as merch… I would love to see a diecast and a coozie, but above all a t-shirt or jersey and a hat…..my older brother got the whole family tickets for the 500 so I need some Conor gear to wear to the race! But I for sure understand the difficulties in creating and selling merch so I would be grateful for whatever you’re able to get out there and even if you don’t have shirts or hats out, no matter what I’ll be rooting for ya!

[@ConorDaly22]

i appreciate that! we'll work on having something good for everyone to support us this year!

[@ericsmith7247]

Congratulations Connor.. Love this for you.. NOW.. To your Merchandise question / Comment.. Speaking for myself.. I attend about 5-6 races a year.. I have ZERO "driver jersey's".. I (like many others) are old track dogs and long time Indy Car Geeks.. For example.. I show up in an old Indianapolis F1 Grand Prix t-shirt (Attended every one..) More of my favorite track wear is an old Vasser t-shirt, Gulf t-shirt, JV, Greg Moore, CART, etc.. The point I am trying to make is that it seems a lot of us "veteran track attendees" don't wear some of the very most current driver jerseys.. There is nothing wrong with them whatsoever.. It just seems that the crowd I sit and congregate with at tracks are just that.. Die-Hard Track Dogs that typically wear out of date race gear.. LOL.. Great convo starters.. However, we all are the first ones to talk and help educate some of the newer fans and we love them all..!!!! Thanks again for the awesome podcast and look forward to cheering you on this year.. BTW.. When you take the lead at the 500, the crowd ROAR is my favorite deafening sound in the world..

[@ConorDaly22]

we appreciate knowing this. Definitely need to put something out there that folks like you feel like you need to have! it's helpful to be able to create the desire to own current stuff as well!

[@JoelMickells]

Congratulations on a well-earned well-deserved opportunity I was so happy to witness you getting on the podium at milwaukee. Glad I got to see you race from 2022 and now you truly are one of the nicest guys and the good guys on the grid

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!!

[@hptubez21]

Super happy for you Conor! You earned this with your drives last season as much as the paper work.

[@nicholaspapandria1886]

Congrats Man!!!! this is great news. Happy JHR was able to sign.

[@Khaslett]

Your hard work has paid off! Another chapter to add to your IndyCar journey. Congratulations on your well-deserved seat!

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@jghue]

Best early Christmas present! LET'S GO! Love the green and black clothing coordination between the both of you as well for this announcement.

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!!

[@tylerensminger]

Congratulations Conor. I'm happy for you. Best of luck with JHT next season

[@Ossie-r9t]

Absolutely delighted hearing the great news back with a full time drive 2025. Can start planning for May and the Indy 500 🏁☘️

[@terrymusch9581]

Good for you Conor. It will be a great 2025 for you. Enjoy your holidays.

[@zebulonyrttima]

Awesome to see good things happening to good people! Congrats Conor, we'll all be cheering for ya!

[@JDuszy120]

YES!!!! Congrats Conor! You're going to have an AWESOME year! It must feel good to have all the work you put in pay off?

[@ConorDaly22]

Still working hard! Thank you!

[@larryward9890]

Outstanding Conor. Congratulations and we'll be following you throughout the 2025 season.

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@brucebruce7816]

Congratulations!!!!!!!

[@omega_profile1]

Congratulations man!! Good to see you on the grid next year. You deserve it! Online sad thing for me is than Rinus his Indy career is done now. Perhaps there is a seat for him in Imsa.

[@ConorDaly22]

hopefully he still has a shot with Dale Coyne!

[@ordinaryant]

i really manifested this. you deserve this seat

[@christophergritti9873]

Congratulations Conor! Cant wait to watch ya race!

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@lukeriot6241]

Congrats!!! Bigger and better things to come in 2025!

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you! yes!

[@scottmiller1531]

Contention in the 500 is completely realistic. JHR has improved greatly, and Conor is more than capable of stunning everyone.

[@ConorDaly22]

gotta believe! we can do it!

[@jonjackson6245]

Looking for a good finish at Indy this year! Glad to hear you will get some serious seat time in IndyCar.

[@Mikesacco1B]

Amazing stuff. Congrats

[@Jordanlf3208]

Best Christmas gift ever!!

[@JoeGruener]

Congratulations man. This is such feel good news. We've all been rooting for you.

[@ConorDaly22]

Thank you!!

[@mattg9971]

Congrats man! Its going to be a big year for you!

[@ConorDaly22]

That’s the plan! Thanks!

[@DeMorcan]

Congratulations. Look forward to next season.

[@Nick.j01]

So psyched for you man!! I see a p1 in the future

[@nicolasdon1483]

Awesome mate!!! See you on the track!

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@Tuckpana]

Outstanding Congrats !!!

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@revazquez]

I’m sooooo relieved and happy for you! BIG CONGRATS! Phew!! Can’t wait to see you do your magic in 2025!! Let’s Goooooooo!!!!

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@oates76]

Yeah buddy, congratulations. I’m coming back to Indycar after being away for a couple decades. Looking forward to following you this year!

[@ConorDaly22]

really glad you're back!

[@93ryan5]

LFG Congratulations, Conor. so happy for you. The best part is you announced it before the holidays. Now it's going to be a stress free knowing you have a ride next year. Enjoy time with your family and girlfriend buddy. See ya at Indy in May.

[@ConorDaly22]

not quite stress free yet as we've still got to raise a considerable amount of funds to be fully safe but thankful to at least get a contract signed

[@MaunoKoivistoOfficial]

Finally the news is out. Love to see it!

[@blaisemichael7872]

Hell yeah dude! Gonna be a good year! Hopefully I'll see ya in St Pete

[@hilltopperalways]

Let's go!!!!! Yes!!!!!!

[@JohnHarwood-zf3im]

Congrats Conor. So happy for you. Really looking forward to watching you this coming season. Best wishes & Happy Holidays to everyone.

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you! Merry Christmas!

[@yert6661]

Congrats well deserved

[@MrJmpeezy]

Congratulations Conor! You deserve it after those incredible drives last year!

[@ajwinslow1]

Congratulations! We're really looking forward to seeing you kick ass for a full season, especially the ovals!

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you! Road Courses will be good too dont worry!

[@ajwinslow1]

@ConorDaly22 Road courses are good, but watching you at milwaukee last summer was inspiring!

[@ojalife6635]

Glad to have you back! Go get more podiums

[@ConorDaly22]

that is the plan!

[@kmcbpoll7531]

Congratulations, Conor!! So happy for you. This is well deserved 🎉

[@jeremystrout23]

So excited to cheer for you next season, congrats on the seat and all the hard work!!!

[@ConorDaly22]

Thank you!

[@richardsilvestri6874]

I’m so happy for you! Congratulations, you deserve it!

[@gernith]

congrats!

[@TeresaJohnson-d6b]

YAY!!! So happy for you! Congrats! My prayers for success and safety will be with you through the season.

[@fatheroffish101]

30 min in and still have a massive smile! So proud and happy for you Conor! You deserve this my man, cannot wait for 2025👏👏👏

[@ConorDaly22]

Thank you!!

[@GaryEngstrom]

Great news. So happy for my man Conor.

[@justinjonbaugh]

I'm getting excited for next season! This is one of the welcome changes. Congrats and best of luck for the future!

[@ConorDaly22]

we appreciate you!

[@Jeremy-p4r8h]

Conor Daly at JHR for ‘25. Whoo Hoo, such amazing news, so pleased for you Conor, get in mate 👍

[@indianapolisjones5005]

I will be getting myself and son a jersey of yours this season for sure. Congrats on the ride man.

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@dcscdavis]

Hell yeah! I can't wait for the 2025 season.

[@caseman799]

Best Christmas present ever!!! I am still desperate for the Speed Street shirt (I was late to the Conor party). I think the problem with the Conor #24 shirts was there were too many to choose from. There was the IndyShop Conor 24 in black, IndyShop Conor 24 in white, the IndyCar shirt with car livery, and the IndyCar jersey. The average fan will only buy one. And I love IndyShop BUT if I weren't some weirdo that buys everything, I probably wouldn't have picked either of the IndyShop shirts as my one Conor merch pick of the season. My personal opinion is there should be ONE Conor shirt and ONE Conor jersey that go on sale sometime before St. Petersburg and have that be the only choice for the rest of the season. Adding more just causes decision fatigue. I think most dedicated fans understand that t-shirt margins are razor thin. Closets can only fit so many shirts and every KZbin/Twitch streamer with a following has a shirt for sale. Its more about identifying fellow fans out in the wild. I lost count of the number of times someone approached me because I was wearing a Conor jersey. I have had strangers take my picture😆. But I still want my 1:18 Conor diecast, Conor koozie, Conor hat, and, if possible, an off season hoodie. I'm getting a lot of mileage out of my Cup Series Bitnile #50 hoodie this year

[@ConorDaly22]

this is a great comment and something we need to pay attention to! hard to get everything covered but hopefully we'll have great stuff available for everyone!

[@mx_shrampy8497]

Hell yes brother, can't wait until 2025 at St Pete

[@nieko3038]

Congrats man. That’s some great news. I’ll see you on my tv screen.

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@50caLIndycar]

Congratulations!!

[@rpcorp]

Could not be happier for you Conor!!! This is Fantastic News 🏆🏁

[@ConorDaly22]

Thank you!

[@danielarndt284]

Congratulations!!! so happy for you!

[@ConorDaly22]

Thank you!!!

[@brightline129]

Congrats on the ride! Will be pulling for you next season. For merch, I’m a hat guy because it always fits. Would love to see an option that isn’t flat billed. Also, with the chat about parkside, I loved the product this year and pulled some nice sigs. For future years, it would be great to see some sort of race worn driver suit or glove relics and sig relics. Again, so excited for what lies ahead. Can’t wait to see the car in-person in St. Pete.

[@ConorDaly22]

that's a great idea!

[@stymiesnerdly771]

Merch? How about a Conor Daly - Hard Truth bottle? Two greats from Indiana!

[@ConorDaly22]

haha that would be nice

[@jbf1305]

So happy for you and wish you all the best!!

[@DaveyKos]

Congrats guys and congrats Conner

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@Syndr34]

Excellent news. I had a good feeling after you helped them at the end of the season.

[@joey.4]

Congrats Conor! Can’t wait to see you next season with a great team

[@craigs3166]

Congrats Conor! Well deserved brother.

[@F1Anything]

Proud of yoy conor, you deserved 🙌🏻

[@terryswick7393]

Congrats!!!!!!!

[@benjaminchidwick9418]

Yeeeeees!!!! Happy for you man!!! Hope to say hi to you at the Arlington GP in 2026!

[@ConorDaly22]

hopefully we can make it that far! haha

[@benjaminchidwick9418]

@ConorDaly22 closest race for me, unless I can swing Barber this year. I'll be cheering for your success!

[@clint3man]

So happy for you Conor. You certainly earned it after your performances last season. Now I got to buy some JHR merch!

[@ConorDaly22]

Thank you!

[@GonzaloG5]

Congrats!!!

[@John-jl9de]

Glad to have you back in the series. Indycar is the best racing in the world and hopefully there will be more races in the 2025 season and good luck to you and your team.

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@JolietZett]

So pumped!! So happy you are full time. Hell of a show you put on at the end of last season!!!!!

[@JolietZett]

We need to land a crazy sponsor like Amazon, Lego… how about Axon? somehow we need to get some company to come through. INDYCAR is so great, you are so popular, I feel like we can make it happen. Let me know what I need to do. Maybe you need to just go to Vegas again.

[@ConorDaly22]

would be tough to get that type of partnership. We need people to know we exist first!

[@kenji.m-72]

Congrats Conner! So happy for you! For merch, I'd buy a shirt and decals

[@ConorDaly22]

good to know that!

[@jlr4696]

Great news Conor. Congrats, Glad your perseverance paid off. See you in St Pete.

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@ffrank7905]

CONGRATULATIONS AND MERRY CHRISTMAS CONOR. GREAT NEWS!!!!!

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!!

[@DanielPatrick35]

Super excited to have you back on the grid instead of yet another, how you say, walking money clip. Good luck, Conor!

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you! still working hard to raise the money to put in that clip hah

[@RodMattix]

All in Conor.Yeah baby.

[@ConorDaly22]

that's how we have to live!

[@stymiesnerdly771]

HELL YEAH!!! Congratulations brother! Best news of the offseason. Green & black represented by the shirts on the show as well, and I doubt that was planned.

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@The_Lincoln_Penny]

Yessssssssssss! Congrats CD. You gave your best to JHR last season and now they’re repaying your efforts. Go beat the naysayers!!!!!

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!

[@d.d.7287]

Congrats man! 27:50 Completely agree. I'm not even that big of a McClaren fan, but their merch is on point. JHR has some solid looking merch too. I almost got a JHR hat and/or shirt last year, but I'm not a Grosjean fan so I didn't. Now that you're on board thats an easy sell.

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you! we'll have our own merch available soon dont worry!

[@Mainekarter2004]

Heard it from Hinch first! Love it for you Conor. So excited for your upcoming season. Kick Ass News!

[@ConorDaly22]

Haha that’s good news. Thanks

[@MatraHatrick]

Soo awesome ! This news made my day ! What a relief! See u at Long Bch !!! YES !!!

[@ConorDaly22]

see you there!

[@johnguedel7119]

Awesome!! Made my day!!! Good luck in 25!!

[@DillWeasel]

Outstanding news!

[@justinschultz4325]

I love the story of how Ricardo got to be a team owner. I became a fan of yours because you are a driver and a Indy fan. You and Sting Ray Rob are the team I'm going for in 2025.

[@ConorDaly22]

thank you!!

[@MrAndyNich]

Congrats on the seat for 2025!!! We need a diecast of that neat green and black car too lol.

[@ConorDaly22]

we will have multiple paint schemes this year hah and cant afford diecasts sadly!

[@MrAndyNich]

@ConorDaly22 ok. Its awesome regardless. Hope to see you in the pits at the 500 to get my selfie signed I took with you this year. Can't wait for the season to start.

[@CanesCatsHeat305]

Kyle Kirkwood has all the support from the state of Florida. Including me. i have his Diecast and his jersey. I will be adding a Conor indy500 Diecast. Hopefully we can get an incredible livery like Agustins last year. Im not from Argentina but i still bought it because it was a very cool Diecast

[@ConorDaly22]

hopefully we can afford diecasts this year but I doubt it!

[@TDTony14]

Let’s go!! Now go win the Indy 500!!

[@ConorDaly22]

let's do it!

[@LancePreston-c8q]

Hi Conor, im a big fan of Indy car and a CD fan, im from New Zealand and Im coming to the 500 this year and will get a CD shirt, My dog is also called Indy 500 so its a big deal for us to travel half way around the world to see this event . Its a once in a life time trip. Love the pod cast , good news on the full time drive. well done.

[@ConorDaly22]

heck yeah! love to hear that! Come by the garage and say hey if you can. You'll love the race weekend!

[@LancePreston-c8q]

@@ConorDaly22 I will do that , and get some murch,

[@OoohGreasyBacon]

Heck yeah man, congrats!

[@kahlenestotts4933]

I posted in the comments after the last podcast that I hoped you got your sponsorship for Christmas. Guess I called it. So very happy for you and can't wait to see you at a couple of races this year. As far as merch, it's tough to please every one but I don't care for white shirts (too hard to get mustard an beer stains out). I don't like black because they absorb too much sun and get so hot. My favorite Conor shirt (and i have several) is the grey with your name over Indiana and established 1991. Made it easier last year as you moved to so many teams. Lol. Here's looking forward to a great season!

[@ConorDaly22]

we appreciate you! good to know!

[@carriesutherland2333]

What a great Christmas present 🎉🎉🎉!!!