'Combatting the change': How introduction of hybrid will (and won't) change IndyCar in 2024

LEXINGTON, Ohio – When you catch glimpses of IndyCar drivers frantically moving their hands and contorting their fingers in ways in which the sport has never seen during Sunday’s race at Mid-Ohio, know it’s an effort to gain a tenth or two of a second per lap – at most.

Those hand, wrist and brain acrobatics are the result of nearly five years of ever-changing visions by company presidents and c-suite executives, cost tens of millions of dollars to imagine, develop, test, refine and mass produce and come with the racing world well over a decade into its hybrid era.