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A year ago, Conway was scheduled to pilot the team\u2019s No. 5 Cadillac, but was forced to sit out the event after experiencing visa issues while traveling from his home in London.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to be back with Action Express Racing, and it\u2019s been fun so far driving with them since 2017,\u201d said Conway. \u201cWe\u2019ve had some good results, but obviously, winning at Daytona has eluded us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Conway finished sixth at Watkins Glen and seventh at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta in 2019, co-driving the No. 5 Cadillac Prototype with Albuquerque and Joao Barbosa.<\/p>\n
\u201cI raced with Albuquerque last year, and I\u2019ll be teaming up again with Nasr \u2013 whom I drove with my last time at Daytona,\u201d Conway said. \u201cSo I know both of them pretty well as teammates. I feel we have one of the strongest lineups for this year\u2019s race, and I think we can have a good result.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2018, Conway helped Whelen Engineering drivers Nasr and Curran to both the Prototype title and the Michelin Endurance Cup (MEC)\u00a0 <\/span>\u2013 a unique competition now captured by Action Express Racing teams for six consecutive years. He followed up the runner-up finish in the Rolex 24 with a third-place finish in the 12 Hours of Sebring. After placing sixth with the team in the 2017 Rolex 24, Conway finished third in the 12 Hours of Sebring and second at the Motul Petit Le Mans.<\/p>\n \u201cAction Express always gives us a car to deliver,\u201d Conway said. \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to the race, especially after missing it last year due to visa issues. Now, I can\u2019t wait for the Roar (Jan. 3-5) and then the race. It will be nice to take a couple of weeks off for Christmas, but I\u2019m already fired up to get back to Daytona!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSince Action Express and Whelen Engineering teamed up in 2016, we have enjoyed tremendous success,\u201d said Action Express team owner Bob Johnson. \u201cEric Curran was a very big part of that success from the beginning. Everyone at Action Express will always consider Eric to be part of our racing family. We are confident Eric will be able to continue his driving career with a team that can offer him a driving position in more races than we are able to offer him at this time and we wish him great success as he continues his many years of service as a representative of Whelen Engineering. We are very excited to welcome Mike Conway back to the Whelen number 31 car to join Felipe, Pipo and Filipe in Daytona for the 2020 Rolex 24 hour event.\u201d<\/p>\n A six-time competitor at Le Mans, Conway finished second overall three times in the past four years for Toyota Gazoo Racing. He is currently second in the LMP1 standings of the 2019-20 FIA World Endurance Championship with five races remaining. He finished second in the 2018-19 championship, with three victories and nine podium finishes over the past two seasons. <\/b>Prior to turning his attention to sports cars, Conway competed in the NTT IndyCar Series from 2009 through 2014, winning four races.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (9 December 2019) \u2013 Mike Conway will rejoin Action Express Racing for the fourth consecutive year when he co-drives the No. 31 Whelen [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/axracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ActionExpress_6.IMSA2019_josemariodias_02011-300x200.jpg\")
Conway\u2019s return to the team follows the announcement that Eric Curran has stepped away from his role as a DPi racer following four years with Action Express Racing that featured two IMSA WeatherTech Championships (2016, 2018) as well as two MEC (2018, 2019) titles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n