Daly leads ECR charge to make first-ever Fast Six road course appearance

Things could only get better for Conor Daly after a start to the season that has included flips and having a bucket of ice poured on his head to help with overheating in the cockpit.

Where everything that could go wrong did go wrong from Round 1 to Round 4, the Indiana native put the the No. 20 Ed Carpenter Racing Chevy and his prodigious talent to work on Friday and earned a career-best road course starting position of P6. ECR teammate Rinus VeeKay has recorded better finishes, but Daly has showed solid speed in qualifying this year with an early 2-1 edge on his young stablemate.

"Today was a very, very exciting day for me!" said Daly. "My first time in the Firestone Fast 6 - it took me a while to get there! We've done a lot of work to get this car to suit my driving style a bit more and today was a great example of that work paying off.”

With VeeKay on the next row in seventh, ECR should be a contender in the 85-lap race.