Video: Next Generation IndyCar concept revealed

The next IndyCar. IndyCar just doesn't know it yet

IndyCar didn't design the concept for their next generation IndyCar, but it's already done for them. Initially inspired by Grand Prix cars of the 60’s Chris Beatty wanted to explore what a contemporary vision of these great racers might look like combined with modern day safety developments.

He wanted to create a design that removed the heavy reliance on over the body wing generated downforce and instead focus on mechanical grip with a degree of ground effect generated from the under-body.

He wanted to produce a car that would be a game changer both visually and in the way it interacts with the driver and the race track. At the same time he also wanted it to look like it could conceivably roll out of a Silverstone garage on a cold spring morning for an initial shakedown test within the next two years.

The canopy was a very important element of the design from the start. He was present at Brands Hatch in July of 2009 when Henry Surtees sadly perished and then at Pocono Raceway in August 2015 for the Indycar race and witnessed Justin Wilson’s accident on the far side of the circuit. As a lover of all things motorsport he found both of these events, along with the fatalities of Dan Wheldon and Jules Bianchi, (all from head trauma) hard to justify and felt strongly that some form of enhanced head protection was now a must in single seater racing cars.​

Just about everything has been thought of, including driver cooling in this updated video.