2027 IndyCar Design

Its interesting that Adrian Newey's name came up. 

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/indycar-team-owners-first-look-212754408.html 

Sounds like it'll be a pretty conservative evolution of the current 12-year-old car. I get the need to contain costs, but I really wish they'd push the envelope a bit.

FWIW, this is the Newey design that some of the team owners are saying should be the inspiration:

2011-12 when Lola, Delta wing, Swift...ect. All put out concept cars to indycar to consider bids, I thought Dallara was by far the worst and most conservative of them. However Dallara invested and moved some of the operations to Indy, who knows if the other manufacturers offered the same. I love indycar racing and I prefer the cockpit over the sandal T-bar (what ever it's called) in F1. I would expect another conservative approach by Dallara and something that won't be close to what Champcar had produced. Again not a big deal it's just a spec series with fantastic racing.

trigun7469 said:

2011-12 when Lola, Delta wing, Swift...ect. All put out concept cars to indycar to consider bids, I thought Dallara was by far the worst and most conservative of them. However Dallara invested and moved some of the operations to Indy, who knows if the other manufacturers offered the same. I love indycar racing and I prefer the cockpit over the sandal T-bar (what ever it's called) in F1. I would expect another conservative approach by Dallara and something that won't be close to what Champcar had produced. Again not a big deal it's just a spec series with fantastic racing.

Yeah, practical considerations will probably mean it won't be a big change. But I do think this is an opportunity for Indycar to differentiate itself with something "new and cool" that will draw attention to the series.

In reply to trigun7469 :

I thought flip flops where called thongs before that turned into underwear. Let's call it a thong. 

At first, the new sandals were called “thongs,” so named after the piece between the toes, but by the 1960s, the term “flip-flops” had come into use; it was based on the sound the shoes made as the wearer walked.