As the machine in which he achieved his greatest career successes, Ryan Hunter-Reay’s pick for his favourite car comes as no surprise. The more pertinent question is establishing the 2012 IndyCar champion and 2014 Indianapolis 500 winner’s preferred specification of the stalwart Dallara DW12.
So named after the late Dan Wheldon, who completed most of the development work on the car and was slated to be Hunter-Reay’s team-mate in 2012 before his death at Las Vegas in 2011, the DW12 can be considered as a family of cars that share the same name in a similar vein to Audi’s R18. The original guise was used in 2012-14; manufacturer-specific aerokits spanned 2015-17; a revised spec bodykit given the IR-18 designation appeared in 2018, while the arrival of hybrid earlier this year represented another ‘new’ era.
