Conor Daly earned himself and Carlin a first IndyCar pole position at Iowa on Friday, and it was only a late intervention from a couple of Penskes that prevented him from securing a clean sweep for this weekend’s double-header, with Josef Newgarden ultimately claiming the honor for race two. Daly was the fifth car out and dusted those that had come before him with a first lap average of 175.188mph, and backed it up with a stout second lap of 174.960mph. Under this weekend’s unconventional qualifying procedure, whereby the first lap set the grid for race one and the second lap sorted the starting order for race two, that put him in a strong position for both races. But with most of the...
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