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
  • Back in the day, Indy cars were painted with decals applied to the top of the paint.
    — Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • How many individuals get to sit in an Indy car at those speeds?
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • From midgets to Indy cars, from sprint cars to stock cars, Stewart was at home behind the wheel.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2026
  • This one puts him in one of Indy car racing's most illustrious clubs.
    — Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 31 May 2021
  • Driver Leon Duray ran his Indy car on ethanol way back in the '20s.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 27 May 2016
  • The aircraft was incredibly responsive, like an Indy car at high speed.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The driver’s firesuit was designed by Hoffner as was the livery on his winning Indy car.
    — Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • For Indy cars and their Firestone rubber, however, the second lane was like running on ice.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Another area shows Indy cars' fueling process, explaining how the crew can fill the tank in seven seconds.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • 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
  • Johnson said the speed differential between a Cup car and Indy car here is perhaps 20 mph.
    — John Sturbin, Dallas News, 13 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
  • 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
  • The Pollards spent the weekend spreading the word about organ donation at the prestigious Indy car race.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 25 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The post included a special graphic with an Indy car stretching across Memorial Stadium and also one of the original photos from the shoot.
    — Bruce Martin, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • So while driving Indy cars 177 miles in a circle may seem wasteful during a gas crunch, Sunday’s race will have a negligible affect on the price and availability of fuel at service stations.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
  • While Victim 2 took a pass on the hypercar offer -- as did an Indy car driver known as Victim 1 -- because of his suspicions about Rogers, Michael Mente did not.
    — Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Because of Meyer’s connections at SiriusXM, the satellite radio network wanted to showcase some of its music channels on Meyer Shank Racing’s Indy cars.
    — Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The Java House Grand Prix of Arlington is quickly approaching with the first-of-its-kind Indy car race set to take place March 13-15, and fans in attendance will get treated to a special performance by a platinum-selling artist.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Jan. 2026

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