How to Use Indy car in a Sentence

Indy car

noun
  • The moment your car gets loose [in Indy cars] there is going to be a crash.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Five seconds in a Funny Car would be much more appealing to him than 500 miles in an Indy car.
    Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Multiple brands will offer test drives on the riverfront course of the 2023 Indy car Detroit Grand Prix.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2022
  • This one puts him in one of Indy car racing's most illustrious clubs.
    Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 31 May 2021
  • Johnson said the speed differential between a Cup car and Indy car here is perhaps 20 mph.
    John Sturbin, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2022
  • For Indy cars and their Firestone rubber, however, the second lane was like running on ice.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2023
  • And, an Indy car should be roughly 30 mph faster than a stock car — a change that Johnson said required an initial vision adjustment his first time on track.
    Jenna Fryer, Chron, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Unser won three Indy car national championships over his career and 39 victories— sixth on the all-time list.
    NBC News, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The busiest and most diverse portion of the short summer season delivers motorcycles and Indy cars to the big track, stock cars to the Mile and two major series of sprint car among the many short track options.
    Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
  • Sports cars, stock cars, Indy cars, there were a lot of similarities and everything translated, but this is kind of off on its own island.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Others in the paddock believed his sentiments to be too extreme, pointing out that Indy cars racing at Fontana were like Sunday's final 70 laps across the whole show.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Rebaque was injured in a crash shortly thereafter at Michigan International Speedway and never raced an Indy car again.
    Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2022

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