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Originally Posted by DonRacer
"Engineers work to develop economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints."
Don't blame the engineers, they delivered exactly what the powers that be wanted.
Now, according to Millers article the powers that be want something new.
1. Excite the younger generation
2. Drastically reduce the cost
3. Maintain the safety integrity, and speeds of the past decade.
4. Reduce waste
5. Bring back innovation to the Indianapolis 500
What's wrong with that?
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I wouldn't disagree with your statement about engineers. However, what they came up with in doing that is no longer economical.
I suppose there is nothing wrong with those general goals except there is nothing of substance to indicate what they are doing to reach those goals.
1. That's a good goal. But this car might not do that and if it doesn't what then?
2. That car as pictured almost surely can do nothing to drastically reduce cost. Nothing in the text of the article supports the idea that it would do so. The cost of the cars is no longer the main problem in Indycars. I'm not saying they aren't too high because they are too high. But even if the cars were free the cost to campaign an Indycar far exceeds the available revenue.
3. They already have cars that will do that.
4. See #3 above. How will making the current car obsolete reduce waste? What is being wasted now with the current car?
5. As I already said, innovation will do nothing but drive the cost even higher than they are today.
All of that is simply wishful thinking. If Honda who has lots of money is so excited about this car, how much money have they spent on it?