An interesting tug-of-war has emerged between Verizon IndyCar Series teams and IndyCar's competition department over chassis components.The technological battleground, which opened up last year when the series allowed its entrants to produce some of their own Dallara DW12 components, has pitted race engineers and their performance-minded ideas against the series'...

The Verizon IndyCar Series is removing more items from its list of spec Dallara DW12 parts.Leading into the 2017 season, IndyCar competition president Jay Frye and his team launched an initiative to convert some spec DW12 components to free and open for teams to produce on their own or through...

Sebastien Bourdais warns that IndyCar's move to open additional areas of the car to development will drive a wedge between the big teams and their less well-resourced counterparts.Previously, most components had to be sourced exclusively from the series-nominated supplier, and run as supplied. However some of those restrictions have been...