IndyCar lays out sensible plan for its current and future car (Update)

It's back to the Panoz Champ Car look of 10 years ago.

UPDATE According to this racer.com article, the standard bodywork starting in 2017 will make the DW12 look more like the Panoz Champ Car last used back in 2007. When the two series were merged, they should have adopted the Champ Car as the standard car, instead they adopted the inferior IRL IndyCar.

Now 10 years later the series will be moving back to what Champ Car was in 2007 – turbocharged and all.

One step forward, 10 steps backwards – this has been the Modus Operandi of IndyCar. We have had to endure 10 years of one ugly race car, and the loss of thousands of fans for them to realize the mistake they made.

Now about the sound, if they would bring the scream back of the Cosworth V8, IndyCar would bring back a lot of lost fans. Sound is the #1 perception motorsports has of awesomeness. Lose the awesome sound, lose fans. This is 'fact.'

The current DW12 will be around through 2020. For next year Honda will be locked into its inferior road and street circuit bodykit until the standard kits come in 2018

10/25/16 IndyCar president of competition Jay Frye told racer.com, the DW12 will bridge the series' move from custom aero kits produced by Chevy and Honda through the new-for-2018 universal aero kit that will be used by every engine manufacturer.

"If you look at it in years, in 2017 the kits are frozen, and then there will be another program in 2018, 2019, and 2020 with the universal kit, so in 2021, you could do something drastically different with the chassis," Frye told RACER.

"One of the main goals of this program is to get another [engine manufacturer] to come in, and with the new universal kits on the way — it helps that initiative," Fry said. "And at the same time, we want everyone in our paddock to have a decent period of time with the universal bodywork before we make another change, so 2021 would be the next window for something that's possible on the chassis side."