2012 Indy Car Redesign Looks Like Schumacher Batmobile
California’s Swift Engineering has revealed their proposal for an updated 2012 Indy Car / Formula One racer – and it looks like Joel Schumacher’s Batmobile had a baby with Speed Racer’s Mach 5. This new horror movie version of a race car is scheduled to take over for the “Dallara” IndyCar chassis, which has been in service for 9 years.
IndyCar officials need a car capable of hitting 235 mph at a lower cost than Dallara’s $400k tag. Swift may have found the answer and plans to use lighter & environmentally friendly materials in their vehicle design.
Jan Wesley Refsdal, Swift’s president, has stated about this opportunity to create the next gen IndyCar: “Rapid development is just as much about the speed and quality of the design process as it is manufacturing. We are evolving our four-year exclusive certified composite repair relationship with Mark One Composites, Inc. to provide further manufacturing and inventory support directly to teams from its Indianapolis-based facility.”
Indy officials are also on the hunt for a new engine – comparable to a 3.5-liter 32-valve DOHC V8 made from aluminum alloy.
The Source: World Car Fans
A really bad design, it doesn’t address the issues of concern. A center bar needs to go directly over the driver’s helmet to a loop bar identical to the rear loop bar creating a “A” pillar and the rear loop bar would be the “B” pillar.
The front nose is radically dangerous, it’s design is perfect to launch this car into the sky, that’s what your trying to accomplish right? The nose can’t raise up to a point, otherwise it will ride up on top of another vehicle on impact and launch. The nose needs to stay completely flat to the ground and not contour up. It can come to a point, but staying flat to the ground. The bottom vehicle elevation will stay the same throughout the entire bottom of the vehicle all the way to the tip of the front nose capsule….