Project CARS 2: IndyCar 101

And so, another IndyCar season has begun and one of the world's fastest motorsport series is going to be all out under the hard sun as drivers are giving it all to see who's going to be to the top and while everyone's joining the action, I'm busy doing some research, getting to know about the IndyCar on Project CARS 2.



Although it's mad to call IndyCar a mashup between NASCAR and Formula One because it has some oval action like you expect in America's favorite stock car racing series with machines look straight out of the world's most prestige motorsport series of all time, IndyCar is definitely one of the world's fastest motorsport series where drivers are pushing themselves to the limit. Dallara provided the chassis for the IndyCar machines where aerodynamics play a crucial role in this race. There are two kinds of IndyCar machines; one that is made for road course and the other that is made for oval racing parts of the series. The ones made for oval racing can go up to 240mph and that's even faster than a NASCAR going all out but just like NASCAR, oval racing is going to be very challenging for most drivers and sometimes fatal. I just remembered a certain driver who got killed during a race a few years ago.



The Dallara chassis is a standard issue for IndyCar but for most teams, they can either fitted with engines from either Chevrolet or Honda. Since IndyCar is as American as NASCAR, despite being a world-class race with world-class drivers, especially the one who used to drove in those races, I've decided to have a crack on a Chevrolet-powered IndyCar and because I'm at Long Beach to explain what I'm on about, I've gone for the more powerful but slower Road Course variant.



That said, a Road Course variant of the IndyCar produces a hundred more horsepower than the Oval variant but because it was optimized for road course use, it's heavier and slower than the Oval variant, resulting to over 200mph of top speed. But still, it's fast through the bends and it requires precise concentration to handle these machines with ease.



Anyway, how about a little flying lap to see how an IndyCar works as a racing machine that uses the full majesty of its aerodynamics?



Well, what do you know? That was a fast lap indeed and on a single lap, an IndyCar can take a minute to clear it. It's no wonder that IndyCar is one of the world's fastest motorsport series and its aerodynamics play a crucial part on these machines.



Although I done my quick research on how an IndyCar behaves on the track, I still want to dig deeper to understand more about this open-wheeled motorsport race series and now that this year's season kicked off, I got a lot to learn about IndyCar through different perspectives and for a person who loves to tackle all kinds of races around the world, I'd recommend giving a try with IndyCar and see if this kind of motorsport is your thing apart from the ones you know.