DeltaWing Gets a Second Chance to Fly After failing to break through at Indy, the radical racer heads to Le Mans. A year after visionary DeltaWing race car designer Ben Bowlby was jilted at the altar by the Indy Racing League, he’s found an ardent — and unlikely — new suitor in the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), the enigmatic sanctioning body behind the 24 Hours of Le Mans. DeltaWing Gets a Second Chance to Fly | Digg It | Add to del.icio.us
Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Racing Click above to watch the video after the jump Drivers sometimes switch between motor racing disciplines, but their cars themselves seldom do. Take, for example, Dan Gurney. The all-American racing driver won races in F1 , Indy , NASCAR and Le Mans , to name just a few. Of course, he did it all in completely different types of machinery, but the latest initiative to bear his name looks set to make history in another way.
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Video: Project 56 taking DeltaWing IndyCar design to Le Mans in 2012
The DeltaWing racer was originally created for IndyCar, but the vehicle has just received approval to compete at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2012.
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DeltaWing racer headed for Le Mans
DeltaWing Race Car Concept Looks like a plane and ought to go like a bat out of hell. Ben Bowlby, the evil genius behind the radical DeltaWing race car, ought to be decked out in combat fatigues, with an AK-47 slung over his shoulder. Or maybe dressed in a stiff Russian suit and one of those funky hats Lenin used to wear.
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DeltaWing Race Car Concept
Filed under: Concept Cars , Motorsports , Racing Lola B12 IRL design proposals – Click above for high-res image gallery It ain’t over ’till the fat lady sings. Or so the saying goes, but while the British motorsport engineering firm may specialize in lightweight composites, make no mistake about it: In the global racing arena, Lola Cars is a heavyweight. In addition to sports prototypes, Formula One racers and a variety of other racing machinery, Lola’s history in Indy cars goes back all the way to the 1960s.
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Universal Soldier: Lola presents adaptable IndyCar proposal
We have renderings, video, and details about the DeltaWing proposal for the IZOD IndyCar series racecar. The story inside.
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2012 IndyCar Race Car Design Proposals by DeltaWing [Video]