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    iRacing

    Game » consists of 0 releases. Released Aug 26, 2008

    iRacing.com is an online simulation racing game for the PC featuring numerous licensed cars and tracks.

    The Drew Scanlon Special: A racecar that looks like a plane!

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    Saw this on the iRacing forum. Imagine if iRacing ever got this car! I think it looks cool as hell (but admittedly weird):

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    #2  Edited By Vuud

    That should totally be the Batmobile.

    Why is this not the Batmobile? The Nolan movie batmobile looked like a rolling turd.

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    This got me looking at all the Batmobiles. And they are pretty much exclusively dumb as shit.

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    #4  Edited By AMyggen

    That video is amazing, that car just shpuldn't work!

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    Yeah the Deltawing is a pretty crazy concept. Even with the explanation in that video, I still don't really understand how it turns as well as it does with such a narrow front-end... magic I guess.

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    LeMans 2012 was so great with that thing and the end was absolutely heartbreaking.

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    That car looks amazing - a true breakthrough in racing technology.

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    #8  Edited By Mister_V

    @iron1c: Yeah it was fun watching it race. Even if it didn't set the greatest lap times.

    are they still racing it? I thought Nissan pulled out and I'm not sure what happend to it after that.

    I think they where making a new version with a roof so they could enter it into LeMans proper...

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    #9  Edited By slowbird

    Panoz took over the DeltaWing and changed the engine, tires and put a roof on it, and plan to enter it in the new series that was formed when ALMS merged with Grand-Am.

    Meanwhile, the guy who designed the DeltaWing went to work with Nissan on a hybrid-powered car that looks almost exactly like the DeltaWing. They will be the special entry at Le Mans I think, and also Panoz is suing them.

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    #10  Edited By Mister_V

    @slowbird: Oh weird. didn't know that's what happend.

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    #11  Edited By BBAlpert

    @hatking said:

    This got me looking at all the Batmobiles. And they are pretty much exclusively dumb as shit.

    I was going to post the animated series Batmobile as a rebuttal, but then I suddenly noticed how comically phallic it is.

    I still think it's a rad car.
    I still think it's a rad car.

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    #12  Edited By trace

    Let's not forget that the DeltaWing was originally intended to be the new IndyCar design. That didn't quite work out, as the Dallara DW12 car won IndyCar's favor instead, but where this whole design has spun off from there is pretty fascinating. The idea that a futuristic IndyCar is competing in endurance races among prototypes is rather cool to me, and it certainly looks like nothing else on track.

    The DeltaWing's in GT6, at least. It's a nimble and peppy little car -- one of the more entertaining prototypes -- if my experience trying it out at PAX Prime is accurate.

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    @vuud said:
    The Nolan movie batmobile looked like a rolling turd.

    I liked that it was justified by the fiction and it made sense as a vehicle... and that it was ugly. That was all cool to me.

    Anyways though, this would be a good Batmobile.

    It also looks like a Speeder from Star Wars.

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    @bbalpert: Oh yeah, they're totally rad. But if you think about it for too long it's kind of "it's a dude who's mad and likes bats driving around in a car that he made look sort of like a bat."

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