Joint effort by manufacturers Honda, Chevrolet and the NTT IndyCar Series has been 18 months in the making and calls for unprecedented midseason change of powerplants.
After 18 months of development and 31,000 miles of testing, the IndyCar Series’ hybrid engine is scheduled to make its debut this weekend in the Honda Indy 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.The addition of a hybrid unit to IndyCar powerplants marks a dramatic move for the open-wheel series as it takes a step toward what many in the automobile industry see as a future dominated by hybrid or electric vehicles.
“We’ve put all this technology in the drivers’ hands,” IndyCar president Jay Frye said. “There’s multiple ways for them to use it. It was important that the drivers have big input in this, and I think over the next couple years they’ll have even more.”On road courses, drivers will continue to have push-to-pass technology available in addition to the hybrid unit.
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