Announcement of future non-spec car regs?

[bil588]

When might an announcement be made about future regs? Surely before the Indy 500?

[johntt]

We don't know yet, but its due in 2010 iirc, possibly 2011.

The current Dallara isn't a spec car by rules but a spec car by de facto; in theory someone could supply another chassis, however they wouldn't stand much of a chance against Dallara.

[bil588]

thanks

[chemhead1]

Originally Posted by johntt

in theory someone could supply another chassis, however they wouldn't stand much of a chance against Dallara.

Chem reminisces of the Falcon IRL chassis.....

Seriously, if I had the money, I would've just bought a Falcon and entered a team that year, just to have the satisfaction of knowing that there was something other than the pug-ugly Dallara or semi-decent but still pretty "blah" G-Force.

That being said, I also miss the old R&S IRL car.

[climb]

Originally Posted by johntt

... in theory someone could supply another chassis, however they wouldn't stand much of a chance against Dallara.

Only two suppliers are currently admitted, i.e. Panoz and Falcon, but, as you rightly point out, if Dallara have become the sole one there must be a reason in terms of performance.

unfortunately for some idealists, nobody cares about a race car being pretty or ugly, what matters for everyone is the car being the fastest.

pretty or ugly only matter about road cars

[johntt]

Be interesting to see if they have a universal chassis like Nascar has with the CoT, atm they have oval cars and road course cars.

If they have a universal chassis that can run both then running Motegi/Long Beach back to back may be viable.

[drdisque]

The cars are the same, they just use 3 different wing packages (short oval/road course, intermediate oval, and Indy).

NASCAR is quite different in that their cars can be built by any competent chassis builder with a machine shop.

IndyCars are built of much more exotic materials and there are drastically fewer groups that could build these chassis.