DeltaWing gets a second chance to fly: After failing to break through at Indy, the radical racer heads to Le Mans

摘要

A YEAR AFTER VISIONARY DeltaWing race car designer Ben Bowlby was jilted at the altar by the Indy Racing League, he's found an ardent - and unlikely - new suitor in the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), the enigmatic-sanctioning body behind the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Next June, Bowlby's streamliner - arguably the most radical race car since the dawn of racing - has been approved to run at Le Mans as the ACO's Garage 56 entry, an initiative created to showcase green technology applicable to the world beyond motorsports. "It's not every day that you get to run a revolutionary race car at Le Mans," Bowlby says. "How cool is that?"