Jay Frye, IndyCar president of competition and operations, has said the improved aesthetics of the next-gen bodywork was the starting point for the IndyCar that will be raced from 2018 through 2020. He told media at the NAIAS Show at Detroit: “For the '18 car, what we're working on now and which we will unveil completely in the next couple weeks, we looked at the cars over the last 20 years, and what different parts and pieces that we liked and especially that our fans were asking for. “So that's really where the car started, and it's kind of a reverse engineering exercise. Usually you work on a performance piece first, whereas this car we worked on the aesthetics of it first, hoping...
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