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The nomenclature recalls that of the old Formula One team Ligier, whose cars were labeled JSxx after French F1 driver Jo Schlesser, who died in the 1968 French Grand Prix. Dallara DW12 is currently the longest-serving IndyCar Series car chassis to date despite three different aero kit variants.
1981 Indy 500-winning Penske PC-9B chassis of Bobby Unser Penske PC-9B being demonstrated at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed. The Penske PC-9 and Penske PC-9B are USAC and CART open-wheel race car chassis, designed by British designer Geoff Ferris at Penske Racing, which was constructed for competition in the 1980 and 1981 IndyCar seasons, as well as the 1980 season and 1981–82 USAC ...
A 1958 Watson-Offenhauser which won the Race of Two Worlds in Monza, Italy. The Watson Indy Roadster was an open-wheel race car chassis designed and developed by automotive mechanic and engineer A. J. Watson for U.S.A.C. Indy car racing, between 1956 and 1964.
Starting from 2007 season, all IndyCar Series entrants (outside the Indy 500) utilized the IR-05 chassis version after Panoz defected to Champ Car World Series to replace Lola as the spec chassis supplier for that series in the same season. In 2009 one year after IndyCar unified with Champ Car all entrants (including entrants for the Indy 500 ...
The Lola T900 is an open-wheel racing car chassis, designed and built by Lola Cars that competed in the CART open-wheel racing series, for competition in the 1985 IndyCar season. It won a total of 5 races that season, with Al Unser Jr. taking 2 wins, and Mario Andretti taking 3 wins, while narrowly missing out on another win at that year's ...
As IndyCar puts the final pieces together for a charter program that are likely to include 25 of its 27 present-day full-time entries – combined with the talk of capping non-500 weekends at 27 ...
In 2012 the series adopted the Dallara IR-12 chassis [13] as a cost control method, and IndyCar negotiated a price of $349,000 per chassis. [14] The new specification also improved safety, the most obvious feature being the partial enclosure around the rear wheels, which acts to prevent cars ramping up over another vehicle's back end.
1935 Miller IndyCar chassis was the first to use a Ford engine. IndyCars with Ford engines first competed in 1935 using a production-based Ford V8 in the Miller-Ford racer. [10] [11] A pushrod Ford V8 raced with Lotus in 1963, and Ford's first Indy win was in 1965 with a DOHC V8.