Honda 2015 IndyCar Series Aero Kits

[alfred1976]

Crazy front end.



from the press release:
Honda today debuted the package of aerodynamic upgrades and components its teams will use in the 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series, as the manufacturer seeks to add to an already impressive list of accomplishments in American open-wheel racing.

The 2015 Honda Indy car "aero kit", produced by Honda Performance Development, Honda's racing arm in North America, includes nearly 200 individual pieces that can be fitted to the existing Honda-powered Dallara Indy car chassis. All are intended to give Honda's six IndyCar Series teams the ability to maximize performance at each of the 15 circuits that make up the 2015 championship schedule.

4 pictures and press release

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[MCWB]

Needs more winglets? Holy crap!

[GTRMagic]

Worse on a real car..

So... who exactly asked for these new aerokits??





Jeez...

[FormulaFox]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Worse on a real car..

I disagree. I think both cars look great.

of course, looks are meaningless in racing; They're designing these to win races, not beauty contests. Save the styling exercises for the road cars.

So... who exactly asked for these new aerokits??

Everybody that wanted visually distinct cars in IndyCar. Not the series' fault that today's designers don't want to build things that line up with the aesthetics of the fans who demanded it.

[Lanky Turtle]

Originally Posted by alfred1976

Crazy front end.



from the press release:
Honda today debuted the package of aerodynamic upgrades and components its teams will use in the 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series, as the manufacturer seeks to add to an already impressive list of accomplishments in American open-wheel racing.

The 2015 Honda Indy car "aero kit", produced by Honda Performance Development, Honda's racing arm in North America, includes nearly 200 individual pieces that can be fitted to the existing Honda-powered Dallara Indy car chassis. All are intended to give Honda's six IndyCar Series teams the ability to maximize performance at each of the 15 circuits that make up the 2015 championship schedule.

4 pictures and press release

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Talk about a multi-tiered car, does each tier represent a level in the Road to Indy development ladder? I can't tell if I'm looking at the front of a car or about to walk up the steps to an art museum.

[Yannick]

This is the better looking one of the two aero kits, at least to this observer. Let's hope it's also the faster one!

[David A Scott]

I had to check the calender to see if it was April 1st.

You've got to be kidding me. Both of them have turned an eyesore of a car into something much worse. The future of IndyCar racing?

Eyesearingly ugly.

[rwintle]

That is awesome. I cannot wait to see these crazy-a$$ things in person.

[Paradise City]

I could see it in the grey but it looks 20 times worse in the yellow.

You need to see these in anger to make a final judgement. If they look fierce and terrifying in competition, then we've got something.

[David A Scott]

Originally Posted by Paradise City

I could see it in the grey but it looks 20 times worse in the yellow.

You need to see these in anger to make a final judgement. If they look fierce and terrifying in competition, then we've got something.

More downforce with the same horsepower. Doubt they'll look fierce. The only thing these bodykits will provide, other than making the previous generation irl sleds look somewhat decent, is the longer caution periods to clean up all the extra carbon fibre bits that will be littering the track.

[BudLightJaguar]

Looks like they had some good Peyote for dessert.

[marc sproule]

Originally Posted by BudLightJaguar

Looks like they had some good Peyote for dessert.

i tried peyote a couple of times. each time tossing my cookies was one of the preliminaries.

apt comment.

[JHamilton]

With the restrictions placed on the designers, I'm not sure what people were expecting.

I saw this on the Mulsanne Corner facebook page:

[hotlavaaaa]

Originally Posted by JHamilton

With the restrictions placed on the designers, I'm not sure what people were expecting.

I saw this on the Mulsanne Corner facebook page:

This is hilarious.

[Peat]

I'm not usually one to blow my own trumpet (ok, thats exactly what i'm doing now), but that's my work that I posted on autosport forum yesterday AM. Now it's being tweeted all over the show. If only i could monetise it!

[canamman]

Well then congrats Peat. Job well done!

Wonder if any of the new front aero design will spill over to F1 ?

[mountainstar]

When it comes to this series you just can't make stuff up, they always do it to themselves. I think they are short a few winglets. Maybe they'll put a few on the drivers helmet.

[Canada ALMS fan]

I love the Honda from the side view, especially Jakes'. http://www.indycar.com/News/2015/03/...-kits-on-track
Whether or not these new cars are your cup of tea, a step away from the spec chassis is a positive. I think the next gen will get way more open, Walker gets it.

[Paradise City]

Hunter Reay's car still looks completely and utterly daft.

The other cars I can come to terms with I think. When the livery is darker, the winglets tend to blend in more and overall seems a 'little' more shapely.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Peat

I'm not usually one to blow my own trumpet (ok, thats exactly what i'm doing now), but that's my work that I posted on autosport forum yesterday AM. Now it's being tweeted all over the show. If only i could monetise it!

Fame at last, .

[bjohnsonsmith]

Personally I think the Chevy kit has the 'edge' aesthetically.





Anyway there are loads of photos of both aero-kits, testing at NOLA.

http://www.indycar.com/Photos/Gallery?g=2690

[Paradise City]

The winglets spring up like a field of wild mushrooms on those cars. They are overgrown with winglets like an unkept garden. I'm morbidly interested in seeing how these cars fare in entanglements.

The Chevy does look better but even there there's these strange attenna like winglets sprouting upwards...

But the cars being ugly doesn't faze me per say. If they look ugly and fierce, that's cool. I'll be able to judge that seeing them racing in anger.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Paradise City

The winglets spring up like a field of wild mushrooms on those cars. They are overgrown with winglets like an unkept garden. I'm morbidly interested in seeing how these cars fare in entanglements.

The Chevy does look better but even there there's these strange attenna like winglets sprouting upwards...

But the cars being ugly doesn't faze me per say. If they look ugly and fierce, that's cool. I'll be able to judge that seeing them racing in anger.

F1 cars in 2008 had enough appendages, like this Sauber.

[bjohnsonsmith]

An interesting article regarding Honda's aero-kit.

http://www.indycar.com/News/2015/03/...haracteristics