: a single-seat open-cockpit racing car with the engine in the rear
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Driver Leon Duray ran his Indy car on ethanol way back in the '20s.—Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 27 May 2016 How many individuals get to sit in an Indy car at those speeds?—Jim Clash, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 Foster tested an Indy car for the first time in September of 2023 with Andretti Global at Road America.—Bruce Martin, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024 All Indy cars have rear-view mirrors these days, but Harroun's Marmon Wasp was the first Indy racecar to have one.—George Petras, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for Indy car
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Etymology
indy by shortening & alteration from Indianapolis, Indiana
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