2012 Dallara Indycar Chassis Prototype

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Published 2011-05-11
My first upload! Dallara presented their prototype design for the new indycar chassis that will debut in 2012, or 2013 if the owners get their way. So I thought I'd through this together to show you all the car and since the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500 is just around the bend! The one with the black and red colors is the road course chassis. The gray, black, and red one is the oval version. I got the pictures from the SPEED channel web site, so all picture rights to them. I bought the song from iTunes. It is "Dancing The Manta Ray" by Pixies. Please feel free to weigh in your opinions on the new car, the 500, and/or Indycar in general!
All Comments (21)
  • @Alex_Mac_
    What we should be doing is keeping the current chassis, but integrating the safety cell and opening up to multiple engine manufacturer. Now that this chassis has been around a while and lower budget teams have caught up, it is the most competitive it has been in a long time. If we could just keep the chassis one more season, it would be THE most competitive since the CART IRL split, and a non-Penske Ganassi team I believe would be champion
  • @Alex_Mac_
    I wish they would just keep the same chassis, but integrate the safety cell and multiple engine suppliers. Because this year is great racing because the teams have caught up to penske and ganassi. With the new chassis deal those 2 teams will dominate again because they have more cash to develop it.
  • @Alex_Mac_
    @HoTEcuaBoy (continued)...... it's on their hands. The similair chassis provide a more level playing field for the drivers to rely on skill and not equipment. F1 just isn't a league for the driver to sign, it's good that indy and F1 are different.
  • @Alex_Mac_
    I'm starting to get use to them now, but originally I found the sidepods weird, mainly the oval one. The thing I still don't really like is the rear. It looks like a lemans car and I know they want safety but a rear bumper just isn't openwheel racing.
  • @Grayqboufan
    The car will debut in 2012 for sure. The owners just want the extra aero kits (engine cowling, wings, etc) to be delayed until 2013
  • @mikeearle
    i would have preferred the Panoz dp-01... already a proven entity, lower cost, and wicked fast.. not to mention dead sexy
  • @wwefan1nick
    Google lol, u did the panning with the app! Wow that is REALY good editing
  • @wwefan1nick
    Good vid Alex, its nick, or bounty. how did u get this? I didnt know that there was pics of it already, I heard about it from a friend.
  • @Alex_Mac_
    All the open space by the front wheels seems dangerous. If they are going for safety that may cancel out the rear bumper. Plus now the drivers will try to bump and stuff, which isn't openwheel racing at all. They are turning it into NASCAR at 230mph.
  • @Alex_Mac_
    Unfortunately the new chassis with differed aero kits and everything will just fall right into the hands of high-budget teams, so it will again be a Penske Ganassi show. This year is super competitive because teams have had enough time to catch up to Penske and Ganassi. The series is really the driver's series, but now with this chassis it won't be truely the drivers anymore.
  • @Alex_Mac_
    Aren't the teams suppose to get the new chassis like a month before the season starts? I heard that somewhere.
  • @HoTEcuaBoy
    @AlexMacIsKING thats the argument i keep hearing from indy fans toward f1 fans. but whenever i read pundits from speed or any other racing news website, they always criticize indy car for being too much a spec league. everyone is entitled to their own opinion. to be honest the is the first time and probably the only time i cared about indy cuz of the new car. speaking of skill i think it takes much more skill in f1 for the car alone. the g's and breaking force in that car is far more than indy
  • @Alex_Mac_
    @HoTEcuaBoy at the end of the day I think each form of racing serves it's own benefit to racing. In open wheel indycar is the best place for driver skills. They compete away from team orders and w/ the 50/50 oval road split, although that ratio is understandably skewed this year after Vegas, and 230+ is quicker then f1. F1 is better for the manufacturers in open wheel racing because of the strong team structured ruled and it strongly reflects in the racing. F1 doesn't have the great racing
  • @CarlileStanton
    They should just use the Panoz DP-01, it's a shame that a Car that beautiful and that good only got one season of racing...
  • @Alex_Mac_
    @HoTEcuaBoy -cont-..... There is no passing (thus DRS was needed) and this boom of track building has made some lame tracks. It really can't be said what is harder to race in. F1 has g-force yes, but indycar has higher speed and closer quarters racing and is clearly the most dangerous as result of those two factors as well as the nature of open wheel race cars. All racing has it's own benefit but the driver open wheel area I give indycar and technology I give F1.
  • @HoTEcuaBoy
    i dont understand why Indy has to be a spec league. i get parity is king in america but indy should make a more more like F1 or the past Indy (so ive heard) where teams built their own cars. i guess a ceiling of some sort should be added to prevent over the top teams from going to far but look at f1. its the king of racing because of its high techyness, autonomus teams and thus great racing. the car is ugly and considering Dallara worked on HRT f1 cars, should have been better
  • @weallfollowmanutd
    its tragic we have spec Indycars anyway. Now we get these awful looking things. I used to love the Cart series cars that were single seater pornography that allowed the field to spread out more at much higher speeds. Note, it not the speed that killed but cars racing side by side at 220mph in 2003 to 2011 that caused more danger. Shame on Indycar.