Engine Performance
Engine, not car — the chassis is spec
Every IndyCar entrant runs the identical Dallara DW12/IR-18 chassis, aero kit and gearbox. The only performance variable between organizations is engine manufacturer — Honda or Chevrolet, just two suppliers — plus team-level setup and prep. So this isn’t a “car performance” ranking the way NASCAR’s is: it’s a straight qualifying-pace comparison between the two engines, closer to F1’s single-car honesty than NASCAR’s four-supplier situation.
Gaps are real seconds, not positions: IndyCar’s own results feed carries genuine best-lap times for qualifying (its knockout format’s “Combined Qualifying” classification already reflects each driver’s best lap from whichever round they reached), so “+0.187s” here is a measured gap to the session’s fastest lap, not an invented figure.
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Where these numbers come from
Qualifying classifications from the last five points races, sourced from indycar.com’s own results API. Each entry’s best lap is expressed as a gap to that session’s fastest lap before averaging by manufacturer, so a difference in track speed between circuits doesn’t distort the comparison.