---
title: "IndyCar to Test Experimental Windscreen On-Track With Scott Dixon"
description: "The four-time IndyCar Series champion will take the wheel with the new windscreen during the test."
date: "2018-02-02"
modified: "2018-02-02"
authors:
  - name: "Brian Beers"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/brian-beers"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/18200/indycar-to-test-experimental-windscreen-on-track-with-scott-dixon"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Racing"
tags:
  - "Auto Racing"
  - "Chip Ganassi Racing"
  - "indycar"
  - "Racing News"
  - "Scott Dixon"
  - "Vehicle Safety"
---

# IndyCar to Test Experimental Windscreen On-Track With Scott Dixon

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Four-time Verizon IndyCar Series champion [Scott Dixon](<https://www.instagram.com/scottdixon9>) of Chip Ganassi Racing will test IndyCar’s new experimental windscreen protection device during an on-track preseason event at [ISM Raceway](<https://www.ismraceway.com/>), outside of Phoenix Feb. 8.

The windscreen has been under development for the past few years. IndyCar is aiming to test the visual acuity for a driver (Dixon) under various types of lighting conditions, including full sun, dusk and at night under the track lights.

“We have been striving to create a safety piece that aesthetically looks good and works in all conditions, and this is a test of those things. [Any piece we put on an Indy car](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/12807/indycar-reveals-its-2018-car>) must work for multiple types of venues and different lighting conditions. It has to be versatile,” said IndyCar President of Competition and Operations Jay Frye in a news release.

A prototype windscreen has previously been tested in a model wind tunnel and racing simulator. IndyCar says the windscreen is made of a proprietary Opticor advanced transparency material and produced by Fortune 500 company [PPG](<https://corporate.ppg.com/Home.aspx>). This same material is used in the production of fighter jet canopies.

"The material has shown to be stronger, lighter and more impact-resistant than polycarbonate previously used," according to Jeff Horton, director of engineering and safety at IndyCar.

Despite the announcement of the on-track test, [IndyCar](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/13862/will-powers-indycar-accident-at-gateway-is-why-cockpit-protection-is-needed-now>) says there is no timetable for the implementation of the windscreen in its competitions.

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