Lola B12/00 and B12/01 Indy Cars by petropixel

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

This is a 1/24th scale reconstruction of Lola's B12/00 2012 IndyCar proposal.
In 2009, IndyCar finally publicly recognized how ancient their current cars were and opened up bidding for a replacement design for 2012. They accepted bids from 3 established manufacturers and 2 upstarts. Deltawing actually went ahead and unveiled a full-scale model (their idea was the hardest to sell), but the second most detailed proposal was from Lola, who built a computer model for CFD testing as well as a physical scale wind tunnel model. Most of the drawings they released of this design don't quite line up, but I feel like I've captured most of the details.
I've added files for the B12/01 road course variant, though there was considerably less reference material so I don't think it looks as accurate.
Oh, I should note that the chassis selection story ends with the incumbent Dallara winning and Lola eventually declaring bankruptcy :/http://www.racecar-engineering.com/articles/features/the-indycars-that-never-were/3/