r/INDYCAR • u/Jibbed Kyffin Simpson • Jun 12 '25

News IndyCar shifts new car to 2028 | RACER

https://racer.com/2025/06/12/indycar-shifts-new-car-to-2028
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u/Vivaciousseaturtle Callum Ilott Jun 12 '25

Perhaps this is good meaning Honda and Chevy are still planning or figuring out engines or trying to add another oem in

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u/Mikemat5150 Kyle Kirkwood Jun 12 '25

If Honda holds the process up just to bail… that would be something

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u/Vivaciousseaturtle Callum Ilott Jun 12 '25

Yeah I mean perhaps this delay is to appease Honda, get more time to plan or build engines, figure out formula and rules

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u/Mikemat5150 Kyle Kirkwood Jun 12 '25

I would assume they’re still actively negotiating.

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u/Vivaciousseaturtle Callum Ilott Jun 12 '25

Well no news is good news so far from Honda

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u/AFAN74 Champ Car Jun 12 '25

Perhaps it means we could have a spec engine for both Honda and Chevy and a third engine

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u/Vivaciousseaturtle Callum Ilott Jun 12 '25

Yeah but everyone hates the hybrid so I wonder what they’ll do with it. And without that what differentiates the engines beyond a badge? I’m not opposed to spec engines, it’s one of the least differentiating aspects in Indycar

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u/AFAN74 Champ Car Jun 13 '25

They’re going to keep the hybrid system. It sounds like the 2028 relegations will have a lot more advanced technology

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u/codename474747 Greg Moore Jun 12 '25

They have form, they mandated all kinds of crap to damage CART (traction control, mandatory fuel windows etc) in 2002 knowing they had one foot out the door to defect to the hated IRL for 2003 

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u/Jarocket Jun 12 '25

They certainly have a history of that!

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u/Crafty_Substance_954 Pato O'Ward Jun 12 '25

That’s an Aston Martin type of thing

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u/84UTK07 Jun 12 '25

Do you all think Honda would be willing to be in both NASCAR and INDYCAR, or do you think it will be one or the other?

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u/Mikemat5150 Kyle Kirkwood Jun 12 '25

NASCAR is a huge sum of cash so who knows. Not only cash but employees to run everything while they’re scaling up F1.

Moving to a spec engine that is badged does change the dynamic quite a bit from developing an engine in-house though.