Michael Cannon, Daly’s race engineer at Dale Coyne Racing, has said the rookie’s abilities in and out of the car echo those of the 2003 CART Indy car champion. Cannon told Motorsport.com: “Conor is superb. He’s way ahead of where we thought he would be, as a relative rookie. “We’ve been really conservative so far, haven’t even trimmed the car yet, because we just wanted to give him as many miles as we could while throwing other things at him. And he’s handled it all smartly. “He makes a lot of wise decisions in the car and he has an excellent way of describing what the car’s doing. He’s got great recall, too. If he’s testing something in the afternoon, he can say,...
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