Thread: 18-inch wheel rims in IndyCar Series in the future for revolutionary
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Old 29 Dec 2021, 16:05 (Ref:4091678)   #12
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Originally Posted by peebee2 View Post
It’s not F1. You’d be chucking millions of dollars of good wheels in the bin. You’d have to develop all new set-ups for all tracks, massive budget cost. You’d need new damper programmes, new brake programmes, new aero programmes.

And that’s before the new manufacturing / R&D costs.

There’s no problem with continuing to manufacture the current stuff, the tooling is all there and paid for.

All the above will happen anyway, with the development of the new chassis. So if IndyCar does switch to 18'' wheels, it will coincide with the new chassis.
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