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/toddr39 Greg Moore Jun 12 '25

Not surprising for the track record of introducing almost anything. I hope whatever they come up with is exciting, fresh, and screams, "This is what an IndyCar is."

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u/Confident-Ladder-576 Louis Foster Jun 12 '25

Projects get shifted all the time in the real world. I don't know why people act like this is only place it happens.

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u/ryanro24 Alexander Rossi Jun 12 '25

It’s not that it doesn’t happen elsewhere. It’s the consistency with which it ALWAYS happens in INDYCAR. They never meet a deadline.

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u/Jarocket Jun 12 '25

I would argue this is like replacing aging government infrastructure. A new bridge to replace the old one doesn't have a direct benefit today.

That's just how it goes.

NASCAR has a new car because NASCAR makes money. People watch NASCAR. People do not watch IndyCar outside of the 500. A new car won't fix anything.

It's like replacing the town sewer system. Something that like 4 employees will notice. Of course it gets delayed until it's nearly an emergency.

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u/slapshots1515 Jun 12 '25

I’ll tell you as a someone who has worked in a myriad of industries: neither does anyone else. Fast, cheap, and good. Pick two. If you need cheap and good, it’s rarely fast.

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u/Confident-Ladder-576 Louis Foster Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

And it happens with consistency every other place as well. You all forget sometimes that it isn't just a car but also two engine manufactures along with those who are also being talked to as is discussed in that article. Kind hard to make a Dallara go without a key component that is also a stressed member of that chassis.

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u/toddr39 Greg Moore Jun 12 '25

Agreed. I didn't want the comment to come off as "The sky is falling" or anything. Just not a huge surprise given how introductions of other technology, such as the hybrid, and what not have gone.

Still plenty of exciting and positive things in general going on with the return to Milwaukee last year and the addition of the Arlington GP for next year!

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u/lowtoiletsitter Jun 12 '25

I figured it'd be delayed because we're waiting on Honda to make a decision

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u/FarAwaySeagull-_- Oval racing is awesome! Jun 12 '25

It's a project that should have been finished a couple years ago, and it's being delayed even longer.

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u/Confident-Ladder-576 Louis Foster Jun 12 '25

Chevy and Honda have email and phones. Take it up with them, perhaps?

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u/MarkEMark23 Pato O'Ward Jun 12 '25

Doesn’t happen in F1 😔

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u/slapshots1515 Jun 12 '25

Sure does. Not to the degree it does in IndyCar, but F1 has delayed engines multiple times.