Here's the uncut footage from the Lotus area of the LA Auto Show!
2011 LA Auto Show: Lotus Makes 2012 Indy Car Announcements - YouTube
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Here's the uncut footage from the Lotus area of the LA Auto Show!
2011 LA Auto Show: Lotus Makes 2012 Indy Car Announcements - YouTube
Actually when Swift cars were being built, they won the first time out in all categories, CART, F-Atlantic, and FFord. Maybe IC should have contacted them to get the company out of mothballs and build a decent, well-engineered single-seater.
Swift had a proposal for the new IndycarQuote:
Originally Posted by booger
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Actually the had various concepts
http://pressdog.typepad.com/files/sw...-feb2010-1.pdf
I preferred every one of Swift's designs to Dallara's. I also liked the "Swiftlights" system for displaying throttle, fuel, and race position. I sometimes wonder who paid off who to keep Dallara the chassis of choice.
I am not uch of a conspiracy sort of person - but I have to agree - Dallara was the weakest of the concepts... i think their agreeing to produce in Indy might have done the trick....
The new car accomplishes absolutely nothing, and will likely only compound issues that already exist, those being that the current car is boring, slow and uninspiring.
If you want to stir the imaginations and interests of fans around the world it will take something revolutionary.
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__.../X1_Carbon.jpg
Nobody has raved about the new car. ABSOLUTELY NOBODY! Not Dan Wheldon, not Tony Kanaan, not Dario, not Power, not a single fan, nobody is raving about it and we are in a time that we need a car that people rave about. The DW12 is just another boring car in a long line of boring cars and how the hell does the series expect fans to get excited about it or the racing when they can't even get their own drivers excited about it? The answer is, you can't!!!
ok, I haven't seen that picture before - is it a real car or a CGI?? Also, I agree Loneranger - and the picture you are showing is pretty easy to get excited about - even thought i am not a canopy fan - this thing rocks,,,, now - would it work - is the aero practical or just cool looking??
That car is simply F'en cool looking.... Line up 33 of those going 240 at the speedway and you have a platform to build upon
Least they didn't choose the Delta Wing...
you know, it just occurred to me - NASCAR might have the right idea since 240 etc. keeps coming up (and if they ever went to this red bull car I think it would be the equivalent of say "boys have at it" from a speed point of view)... roof flaps or something similar that deploys if a car gets airborne to push the sucker back down..... would probably have to be some sort of electro-mechanical thing (combine the roof flap with DRS??)with a ton of sensors and what not, but might be plausible.....