Strange Vehicles: DeltaWing Racing Car Reviews and Pictures

STRANGE VEHICLES

DeltaWing Race Car

The DeltaWing Racing Car is a radical proposal for a new type of vehicle for the 2012 IndyCar racing series.DeltaWing LLC, of Indianapolis, introduced the concept at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show. During the unveiling, Dan Partel, Chief Executive Officer of DeltaWing LLC said of the vehicle; "Today marks a fundamental shift in how race fans and the general public will view all racing cars in the future; this is a game changer. This radical prototype takes open wheel racing to a new level from both an engineering standpoint and the overall spectator experience."


The DeltaWing is a racing car designed by Ben Bowlby and debuted at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans. The project began in January 2009, when Bowlby created a potential new IndyCar Series design for the 2012 season.

DESIGN

Originally designed by way of Ganassi Racing Technical Director Ben Bowlby as a successor to the previous IndyCar chassis, the DeltaWing is not pretty much searching exceptional – it is about remodeling the motorsports and automobile industries with radical innovation. Racer mag referred to as it a “game changer”.

The DeltaWing is unveiled for the first time at the Chicago Auto Show. In IndyCar form, it represents a revolutionary new design to replace the Dallara chassis which has been used since 2003. The DeltaWing had done what it set out to do. It had proved that the car’s ground-breaking design features were absolutely competitive and that efficiency in design and power can translate to supreme speed and drivability. 

REVOLUTION

Weighing around Fourteen hundred pounds, the DeltaWing has two slim tires established near collectively inside the the front, a 1.9-liter four-cylinder turbocharged engine within the rear and will keep the pace with heavier however greater effective cars at the same time as the usage of much less gas and tires. Its nice end changed into 4th region at the 2014 Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, near DeltaWing headquarters in Braselton.

Three of the cars were constructed and raced earlier than rules modifications for the 2017 season forced them into retirement. One of the others turned into destroyed in a crash at Daytona, whilst the ultimate is on show in the Panoz Historic Racing Museum on the Chateau Elan Winery and Resort near Panoz headquarters, wherein diverse road automobiles based totally at the DeltaWing layout have been engineered over the years.