Eagle 997


The Eagle 997 was the final built CART chassis by All American Racers. The car was used in the 1999 CART FedEx Championship Series and was primarily campaigned by All American Racers. Robby Gordon also used a privately entered Eagle 997 in select races in the later half of the 1999 season.

Development history

The car would be the first Championship [Auto Racing Teams|CART]/IndyCar race car to be designed using Computational fluid dynamics. This would lead to the car having significantly more down force then the other cars on the grid, the winning Reynard 99I of the year would make ~ of down force at, where as the 997 would produce of down force at. This would lead the car to be exceptionally good in the corners, but have extremely low top speed for its time, meaning that this car would have its top speed limited to, versus the ~ of the aforementioned 99I, this lowered top speed would allow for significantly lower gearing for the car, meaning that even though it would be more than 0.3 seconds quicker to then the 99I, with the 997's 0-, with the 997 capable of 2.8 seconds to, however that was only simulated, and it was capable of only around 3 seconds, meaning it was only 0.1 seconds quicker then the 99I which is a negligible difference because off the line performance rarely matters in rolling race starts which most Indycar races are.

CART/Champ car results