IndyCar driver Conor Daly will try and qualify for the Daytona 500 with the NASCAR workforce owned by Floyd Mayweather.

The Cash Staff Racing raced its means into the Daytona 500 final 12 months with driver Kaz Grala; Daly made his Cup Sequence debut for the workforce in October on The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

“The Cash Staff Racing shocked the world by making the Daytona 500 final 12 months and I imagine on this workforce and know we’ll put together an ideal automobile for this 12 months’s race,” Mayweather stated Tuesday. “Like a fighter who’s all the time able to face one of the best, Conor has the braveness to buckle into this beast with none observe and put that automobile into the sector.

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“Conor is sort of a hungry fighter and my type of man. I certain would not wager in opposition to him.”

Daly can be amongst six drivers vying for 4 open spots within the 40-car subject. Amongst these additionally making an attempt to qualify for an open spot within the Feb. 19 season opener is seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and motion sports activities star Travis Pastrana, a detailed pal of Daly’s.

The announcement to enter Daly within the Daytona 500 got here simply eight days earlier than Daytona Worldwide Speedway opens for race preparations. Daly stated final week he was not hesitant to simply accept a late supply and TMT stated it’s going to enter Daly in not less than six different Cup races this season.

The hassle can be funded by Bitnile.com, which is Daly and Ed Carpenter Racing’s sponsor in IndyCar.

Bitnile government chairman Todd Ault III stated it might additionally sponsor Daly at Circuit of the Americas in Austin in March for the “Texas Two-Step,” by which Daly will run the IndyCar race at Texas Motor Speedway the subsequent week.

Ault additionally stated there can be a “Daly Double” at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in August, when Daly runs each the IndyCar and Cup races on the identical weekend on the street course.

“Our subsequent era market launches simply 10 days after the Daytona 500 … to assist promote our market, we requested Conor to run a lot of NASCAR occasions this 12 months along with our sponsorship of his full-time job in IndyCar,” Ault stated.

The remaining Cup races Daly enters can be depending on his schedule.

“I’m thrilled to be given the chance to aim to run within the Daytona 500,” he stated. “It’s the most prestigious race in NASCAR and to have the prospect to compete in it’s really an honor. I’m additionally excited to be working your entire IndyCar Sequence season and choose NASCAR Cup occasions.

“I’m wanting ahead to the problem and may’t wait to get behind the wheel of no matter Bitnile.com race automobile, boat, dune buggy or car they ask me to drive.”