Conway took to sportscars like a duck to water last year with Delta-ADR and was instrumental in the team taking four wins from the last five races of the World Endurance Championship, only narrowly missing out on the LMP2 crown. Not surprisingly, Conway’s stellar form caught the attentions of Toyota, who rewarded his efforts with a factory contract as the team’s test and reserve driver.
All the while, Conway has continued to find success on the other side of the Atlantic and reignited his IndyCar career. After reminding everyone of his pace in a brilliant one-off outing at Detroit for minnows Dale Coyne Racing – “it was just one of those fairy-tale weekends, where I only got the call last minute, jumped in, won the race then went back to the WEC the next weekend after” – Conway landed at Ed Carpenter’s single-car ECR outfit, surviving a multi-car pileup to win Long Beach for the second time in his career and see his name added to the illustrious list of multiple winners that includes Andretti, Unser, Tracy, Zanardi and Bourdais.
All this means Conway has a very busy schedule, but there’s a sense that he has the balance just about right.
“I’m really the only driver that said I didn’t want to do the ovals and just stick to the road and street courses, and I thought that might be the end of my IndyCar career to be honest, but it’s worked out perfectly,” he says. “There’s not many teams that could do that, so I’m very fortunate to be in one that can.