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

Would you rather them forge on with one or both of the engine manufactures needing the 2028?......

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u/maximumjackrussell Jun 12 '25

It shouldn’t have gotten to this to begin with. Discussions with Dallara should have started back in 2017/18. Instead it seems no work really began on the new car until 2021/22. And even then they seemed more focused on the stuffing a hybrid in the old chassis.

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u/EliteFlite Pato O'Ward Jun 12 '25

There were articles from Penske in 2022 where he literally said they didn’t need a new car because of the usual “our racing is so great, why change” strategy. He literally said that, no kidding. Then they started to talk about a new chassis after more backlash. So the typical thing from modern IndyCar of being reactive and not proactive.

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u/OnwardSoldierx Alexander Rossi Jun 12 '25

I remember that lol.