Guests for Tuesday January 10th 2017…

 

              Derek Daly

Derek  (born in Ballinteer, Dublin) is a former racing driver from Irland. He won the 1977 British Formula 3 Championship, and competed as a professional racing driver for 17 years participating in 64 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 2 April 1978. He scored a total of 15 championship points. He also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races. Derek later became a US citizen and now resides in Noblesville, Indiana with his wife, Rhonda, and three children.

In 1982, Daly began driving in the CART series and continued through 1989. He started 66 CART races, including eachIndianapolis 500 from 1983–1989, except for 1986. He finished in the top ten a total of 21 times, including one podium finish, 3rd position, at Milwaukee in 1987. In September 1984 he was nearly killed in a horrible crash in the CART PPG Detroit News Grand Prix 200 at Michigan International Speedway. The front end of his car was sheared off and he suffered multiple injuries including a crushed left ankle, double compound fracture to the left tibia and fibula, fractured left hip socket, severely fractured pelvis, several broken left side ribs, broken left hand, 3rd degree burns to the left arm, dislocated right foot and ankle, deep abrasions and soft tissue to right heel, and internal bleeding.

In 1990, Daly had the unusual result of finish both first and second at the 12 Hours of Sebring, driving for Nissan.

Derek is known in motor sports circles around the world as a driver, writer, broadcaster, racing advisor, and businessman. He runs a professional services company called MotorVation, and had been a commentator for American broadcasts of the Champ Car series, as well as a public speaker. One of the agencies that represents him is the National Speakers Bureau.

He was also part of the ESPN Speedworld Coverage of the Grand Prix of San Marino in 1994, and therefore called the race in which Ayrton Senna was killed.

Derek’s son,Conor Daly , is also a racing driver, starting in GP3 driving for the Lotus GP team in 2012, and then continuing on to GP2 in 2014 driving for Venezuela GP Lazarus, and then IndyCar, starting part-time in 2013 and full-time in 2016. In 2017 Conor will return and drive for ABC Supply AJ Foyt Racing.

 

                       Anders Krohn
Prior to co-founding CoForce, Anders raced professionally and has 16 wins and one open-wheel championship to his name. In addition to heading up operations at CoForce, Anders works as a commentator for NBC Sports. Throughout his career, he created several B2B platforms such as The Oil & Gas Network in Houston, TX, and uses his experience and creativity to build sustainable platforms for all of CoForce’s clients and business expertise with backgrounds in motorsports, action sports and lifestyle brands.
In his driving days “The Viking” put a lot of trophy’s in his trophy case winning races and championships all along his travels up the racing ladder.

In his driving days “The Viking” put a lot of trophy’s in his trophy case winning races and championships all along his travels up the racing ladder.

Stats in the racing part of his career…

’03, ’04, ’06 – Norwegian Karting Champion
2005 – North European Karting Champion
2007 – Vice-Champion, Benelux Formula Ford Championship (7 wins)
2008 – US F2000 Champion & Rookie of the year (9 wins)
2009 – Pro Mazda, 6th overall and 1 win (Milwaukee Mile, first oval race ever)
2010 – Pro Mazda, 2nd overall, 10 podiums
2011 – Indy Lights, 6th overall, lots of DNF’s, led Freedom 100 and Baltimore GP
2011 – Started CoForce
2014 – Started working for NBC Sports (Entering 4th year in 2017 in Indy Lights and 3rd year in GRC
2014 – Started working for NBC Sports (Entering 4th year in 2017 in Indy Lights and 3rd year in GRC)