Swift's Proposals

[Scheckterfan54]

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...7&l=e502022a11

I like these a lot better. IMO, all of these look like RACE cars.

[DanicaFan]

The one looks like the batmobile...

[Mark in Oshawa]

DF, the one does..but the proportions of all the models are RIGHT. It LOOKS like an Indycar...long, mean and fast.....

[DanicaFan]

Other than the concept car #3, I like Dallara's chassis better than Swift.

[garyshell]

And again I really like the idea of the added body work in front of all the wheels. And I like this for two reasons. First it will make the cars much safer since it will be much less likely to launch. Second I think it will make the cars MUCH more competitive on narrower road courses like MidOhio. Drivers there remember all too well Michael Andretti's tumble into the "kitty litter" at the end of the back straight. With this sort of body work that fear will be gone and we would get to see the sort of rubbin' that the fendered cars do at that great track. I think it will make a huge difference.

Gary

[I am evil Homer]

If you want rubbing watch Nascar...it's called open wheel racing for a reason.

[indycool]

Agree with you, Gary. Conceivably, one chassis could be better on ovals, the other on road courses. It happened with G Force and Dallara in the early days of the IRL, before Panoz fell off the map.

[Chamoo]

Agree with you, Gary. Conceivably, one chassis could be better on ovals, the other on road courses. It happened with G Force and Dallara in the early days of the IRL, before Panoz fell off the map.

Of course, that was the case with the Panoz and Dallara, but much of that could be attributed to the fact those cars were designed for turning left over and over. Now we have designers building cars that are designed to do both.

Of course, there will be one that is better then the other in the long run, but I think these chassis' could be built pretty closely.

[Mark in Oshawa]

Interesting, when I found a link on a blog to 16th and Georgetown (yet another blog) they had a poll on the Swift vs Dallara. 268 votes cast when I voted, and Swift was 82% favourite. The public has voted I think....which means of course Dallara will be sole sourced because the IRL never learned one thing in the last 16 year about listening to the general public....

[garyshell]

If you want rubbing watch Nascar...it's called open wheel racing for a reason.

Hmmm, ever been to an ALMS, Grand-Am, SCCA event? There is a lot of rubbin' there as well. I think even more than you see in the taxicabs.

So, tell me, what's wrong with making it safer for the drivers to run side by side without having to worry about interlocking tires and launching. At one time F1 had body work in front of the front wheels and folks had no trouble still calling them open wheel. So what is so different with this concept?

Gary