{"id":702293,"date":"2026-05-29T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/702293\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:23:08","slug":"conor-daly-to-make-nascar-truck-start-at-irp-with-kaulig-ram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/702293\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Daly to make NASCAR Truck start at IRP with Kaulig Ram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after making his 13th appearance in the Indianapolis 500, Indiana native Conor Daly\u00a0 has signed a deal to drive the No. 25 Kaulig Racing 1500 later this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Daly will compete at Indianapolis Raceway Park, making his seventh career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start and second at IRP. His best showing came at Kansas in 2024, finishing 17th.<\/p>\n<p>Daly&#8217;s NASCAR career also three starts apiece in the NASCAR Cup Series and the NASCAR O&#8217;Reilly Series. He even made a start in the 2023 Daytona 500, finishing 29th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pumped to get this opportunity at IRP,\u201d said Daly in a release from the team. \u201cRacing in front of the hometown crowd is always electric, and climbing into a Ram truck with Kaulig Racing for this race is going to be a blast. I know I\u2019ll have a lot of folks cheering at IRP!\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Daly finished 12th after leading four laps in this year&#8217;s 110th running of the Indy 500, and has a best finish of sixth in the historic race. He has 133 starts as an IndyCar driver with two podiums and one pole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kaulig has used a variety of drivers in its No. 25 &#8216;free-agent&#8217; truck, and Daly will be part of a fleet of five trucks. His teammates are Corey LaJoie (No. 10), Brenden &#8220;Butterbean&#8221; Queen (No. 12), Mini\u00a0Tyrrell (No. 14), and Justin Haley (No. 16).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nRead Also:<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just after making his 13th appearance in the Indianapolis 500, Indiana native Conor Daly\u00a0 has signed a deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,255600,3844,19913,634,18242,82],"class_list":["post-702293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-conor-daly-to-make-nascar-truck-start-at-irp-with-kaulig-ram","tag-indianapolis","tag-lucas-oil-raceway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-truck","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}