Racing has also been scrambled, and when the Indianapolis 500 was moved from May to Aug. 23, one of the Ed Carpenter Racing engineers had a conflict.
One of Carpenter's crew members had worked with Pearn before and the connection was made: Pearn, the crew chief of Martin Truex Jr.'s 2017 NASCAR championship season, would work the Indianapolis 500.
It was like, Yeah, why not?" said Pearn, who called the Indy 500 a bucket list event.
Daly, making his seventh Indy 500 start, finished a career-best 10th in his hometown race last season while running for Andretti Autosport.
You throw a green and checkered.To prepare for Indy, Pearn took a very literal approach I had to read the rule book, he said.