Don Panoz came up with a former drug maker's race car pattern which could make standard cars more efficient. He earned his money by inventing the nicotine patch. Working out of a stockroom in an Atlanta suburb, he was investing some of it to create a slim race car that could change into car racing.The DeltaWing, which seems to be a bit like the Batmobile, is a collaboration between some businesses which includes Elan Motorsport Technologies, one of several corporations Panoz established in the 1990s to build parts for race cars.
