TBK-Light.com

A translation of those quote marks means "paid for", right?

“After a lengthy bidding process and three strong proposals from the finalists, we are delighted to confirm Dallara as our chassis partner for the foreseeable future. The new Dallara IL-15 Indy Lights race car will offer great style, current technologies and of course Dallara’s well-earned reputation for building safe, reliable race cars. We are pleased with the final pricing structure and the various discounts provided by Dallara, and believe our teams and drivers will get excellent value and a terrific race car.”

Marshall Pruett: The Lights contract, according to some, is guaranteed to be given to Dallara. Any truth to that claim?
Tony Cotman: I think it's important to say that while Dallara is obviously a well-recognized chassis manufacturing company, there are many others that are also capable of doing the job. Often it comes down to the profile of the series that you're in. If we sat here today and said, ah, it's going to be Dallara, I know everybody thinks that already, if everything is Dallara, why are you wasting your time? If I knew it was going to be Dallara I wouldn't be wasting my time. But I can tell you today that we absolutely do not have a bias toward any manufacturer, and due to the recent acquisition of Lights, on behalf of Andersen Promotions, we need to do our own evaluation. And at the end of the day, if Dallara wins based on all the criteria we're looking at, then so be it, but it's fair to mention Dan does not have a pre-existing relationship with them. That was IndyCar and this is a different company, a different organization that's conducting this search.

RIP Greg

Next Indy lights car will be designed by Dallara.

http://indylights2014.com/2013/andersen ... ufacturer/

Honda - "We don't need to supply a top team"

Indycar - "Yes you do"

Andretti - "How much will you pay us?"

I'm wearing my "not surprised" face

It seems Dallara has greased the wheels enough to ensure it gets first dibs on all indycar contracts from now until eternity.

It'll have too much downforce and not enough horsepower. Ho Hum, such is life.

So I guess you guys are pretty stoked about the tumors, then

We need aeropackages.

Do we though? I've always been a supporter of the need for aero-packages but I'm starting to think different. It has been 2 years and right now the racing is great, plus the midfield team are also fighting with the big players.

If aero-packages come in, all I see happening is the performance gap will widen. The quickest teams will simply get quicker.