When Dallara introduced the DW12 Indycar in 2012 it was the end of a long and controversial road which saw a number of manufacturers offer all new cars for the 500 mile sweepstakes. The Indycar series had opened up the supply contract to any company capable of producing a car.

Some constructors and most fans wanted open competition but the men of ICONIC decided that they would stick with a spec chassis built by

existing supplier Dallara and eventually open up some portions of bodywork for development. This meant that some exciting and interesting concepts were left on the drawing board, despite a number of them featuring superb ideas.

This feature takes a look through what the new Indycars could have looked like if ICONIC had been a little braver, some of them were very serious indeed whilst others never progressed beyond an artists brainstorm.

2. Dallara IR12

3. Lola B12/00

4. Swift Engineering Concept 70

5. BAT

6. Deltawing

7. Panoz DP01

In part 2 we look at the concepts that lead to the DW12

The Dallaras that could have been