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42-486: Dallara Group S.r.l. is the largest multi-national Italian race car manufacturer, founded by its current President, Giampaolo Dallara . After working for Ferrari , Maserati , Lamborghini and De Tomaso , in 1972 in his native village of Varano de' Melegari ( Parma ), he created Dallara Automobili. The company is still based in this town. Its headquarters feature multiple wind tunnels, a learning academy and museum with several highlights from its storied history . Dallara

84-522: A Lancia LC2 in the 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans . After leaving Formula One, he began a successful career in sportscar racing . He contested the 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Porsche run by Joest Racing . 1997 brought a fourth-place finish in a Porsche 911 GT1 which he also raced in the FIA GT Championship that year. In 1998, he joined the brand new Le Mans program of BMW Motorsports. In 1999, Martini, Yannick Dalmas and Joachim Winkelhock won

126-513: A chassis for the erstwhile Jordan team, Midland . Later, Dallara brought along Gary Anderson to handle this project. But by mid-2005, Dallara pulled out from the project. In 2009, Dallara and his team began a project building an F1 chassis for the new team, Campos Grand Prix , later known as Hispania. In 2015 Dallara became investor in the phoenix club Parma Calcio 1913 along with Guido Barilla and Mauro Del Rio. Pierluigi Martini Martini's uncle, Giancarlo Martini , raced during

168-661: A consequence, the company secured other contracts and built chassis for Toyota ( GT-One ), Audi (various incarnations of the R8 ) and Chrysler (the Oreca -run Chrysler LMP). Later, the Chrysler LMP would become Dallara's customer car available to privateers, known as the Dallara SP1 , which has also served as a test mule for Nissan 's aborted return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans . All these cars were competitive in prototype sports car racing, with

210-422: A few teams entered a Panoz/G-Force chassis into the 2007 Indianapolis 500 singly. Some smaller teams continued to utilize the slightly older IR-03 designated chassis, particularly at Indianapolis, with update kits installed to bring it up to equally competitive ground with the newer-assembled IR-05 due to cheaper costs. Dan Wheldon famously won the 2011 Indy 500 driving a nine year old IR-03. IndyCar implemented

252-545: A general chassis and engine development freeze from the start of the 2009 season . The series began focusing on a new chassis/engine package to be rolled out for 2012. By this time, the Dallara IR-03/05 was exclusively paired with the Honda Indy V8 , as other engine manufactures had departed. Starting in 2012 , Dallara began providing the common monocoque and suspension parts for the new IndyCar formulae – known as

294-918: A handbike for Alex Zanardi for the Men's Para-cycling at the Paralympics , leading Zanardi to win 4 gold and 2 silver medals at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics respectively. For the Rosetta probe, Dallara designed the drill that is part of the Philae robotic lander. Dallara has also partnered with Raytheon to provide the MALD for the United States Air Force. ( key ) (results in bold indicate pole position) 44°43′23″N 10°03′36″E  /  44.723°N 10.060°E  / 44.723; 10.060 Giampaolo Dallara Giampaolo Dallara (born 16 November 1936)

336-482: A race car to Formula 3 standards. This resulted in victories in Italy, France, England, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, United States, Russia, and Austria. In 1997, Dallara and his company expanded into IndyCar racing, with many victories from 1998 until 2003. Since 2007, Dallara has been the single chassis supplier for IndyCar. Dallara branched out into F1 projects in the mid-1990s, and at the end of 1998, Honda, considering

378-506: A return to F1 as a constructor, called on Dallara to design their new F1 chassis. Honda later cancelled the project. Beginning in 2000, after the cancellation of the Honda project, Dallara embarked on a new project. He and his team were to build a race car for French team Oreca , in the Le Mans series . In August 2004, it was announced that Dallara and his team were signed by Alex Shnaider to build

420-491: Is an Italian businessman and motorsports engineer. He is the owner of Dallara Motorsports, a company that develops racing cars. Dallara was born in Parma . Dallara graduated from Politecnico di Milano , majoring in aeronautical engineering. He joined Ferrari in 1960, and next year moved to Maserati . In 1963 he was hired by Lamborghini as their chief designer, where he (along with Paolo Stanzani , and Bob Wallace ) designed

462-680: Is the sole manufacturer of racing cars for the IndyCar Series , Indy NXT , FIA Formula 2 , FIA Formula 3 and Super Formula Championships . The company also produces cars for endurance races such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Daytona . Dallara has also been involved in the development and production of both Formula E cars and Haas F1 Team cars. The company was founded by designer Giampaolo Dallara in 1972 in Varano de' Melegari , near Parma , Italy , and started building chassis for sports car racing and hillclimbing , racing in

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504-451: The 1988 Detroit Grand Prix , and their only front-row start at the 1990 United States Grand Prix (where unexpected rain on Saturday meant that the grid was decided entirely by times from Friday's session. Pirelli's soft qualifying tyres caught Goodyear off guard, and the Italian manufacturer put five of its teams in the top ten positions). Both Martini and Minardi led a race for a single lap at

546-426: The 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix , and their joint-best finish was 4th at the 1991 San Marino Grand Prix and 1991 Portuguese Grand Prix , the latter being Martini's single finish on the lead lap. Initially out of a drive for 1993 , he was recalled back to the little Italian team midway through the season in place of Fabrizio Barbazza , Martini impressed by outpacing his young teammate Christian Fittipaldi . Martini

588-670: The 1997 season . The first model year (1997) was named the IR-7. The cars were most notably differentiated from the competing G-Force chassis by the ovoid shape of the air intake inlet , while the G-Force's were triangular and molded around the roll bar. The IR-8 (1998) and IR-9 (1999) were essentially 1997 model year chassis with various update kits. Jim Guthrie won Dallara's first Indy car race at Phoenix on 23 March 1997. Eddie Cheever won Dallara's first Indianapolis 500 in 1998 , in his Oldsmobile-powered IR-7 chassis. A new model chassis

630-641: The Audi R8 , in particular, becoming the most dominant chassis in modern times at the 24 Hours and the American Le Mans Series . In 2002, they built the GC21 for use in the Fuji Grand Champion Series ; the car was based on the company's F3 cars. In March 2008 the first Dallara Daytona Prototype appeared, built-in collaboration with Doran for Wayne Taylor 's SunTrust Racing team. In 2015, Dallara

672-678: The Dallara SF19 . This update to the previous chassis (the Dallara SF14 ) followed the FIA's new safety guidelines and added the "halo." In the early 1980s, Dallara was responsible for the construction of the Lancia LC1 Group 6 prototype as well as the later LC2 Group C car, along with Lancia's partner Abarth . It would not be until 1993 that Dallara returned to endurance racing , although very few chassis would take their name. The first project

714-584: The Haas VF-16 was officially unveiled. This arrangement has continued since with Dallara designing all the Haas cars up to and including the 2023 season. Dallara debuted as a chassis builder and supplier at the IndyCar Series in 1997, and has been the single chassis builder and supplier since 2007. The manufacturer has won seventeen of the twenty Indianapolis 500s they have contested. In 2013, Dallara reached its milestone 200th Indy car victory at Barber . In 2012

756-429: The 1970s, including some non-championship races in a Ferrari 312T entered by Scuderia Everest, a team owned by Giancarlo Minardi . Pierluigi's younger brother, Oliver , is also a racing driver. Martini participated in 124 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 9 September 1984, driving for Toleman in place of suspended Ayrton Senna at the 1984 Italian Grand Prix . He scored a total of 18 championship points and

798-531: The 2006 season. Following Midland's purchase of the Jordan team for early entry to F1 in 2005, Dallara continued co-operating with the team technically. However, the relationship fizzled out as Midland focussed its resources on developing the existing Jordan infrastructure, and a new Dallara F1 chassis never appeared. Dallara built the cars for Hispania 's entry in the 2010 season. The Hispania team's financial problems—which delayed payment of money owed to Dallara and

840-696: The Austrian tried to lap him. On both occasions Martini was called in for a 10-second stop and go penalty for ignoring blue flags. Quizzed about this attitude on the occasion of the 1995 San Marino Grand Prix , where he held up winner Damon Hill , Martini replied: 'What should I exactly apologise for? My trajectories are always clean. Should I just park the car on the grass? I'm here to do my race like anybody else. I've always been correct. Those who complain about my conduct should explain why they cannot overtake me when their car has at least 150 hp more than mine'. Prior to commencing his Formula One career, Martini drove

882-590: The German and French markets, winning the German title in 1987 and the French in 1987 and 1992. 1993 was the first year that Dallaras were entered in the British Formula Three Championship and was the beginning of the company's dominance of Formula Three. The new F393 featured major aerodynamic changes compared to its predecessor and introduced a monodamper front suspension layout. The F393 won every race in

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924-567: The IR-03 and the IR-05 designations saw use through the end of the 2011 season. For the 2006 season , over 80% of the field began the season with a Dallara, a possible symptom of Panoz 's (manufacturer of the G-Force chassis) perceived lack of interest. This was around the time Panoz began delivering the DP01 chassis to the rival Champ Car series. From 2007 to 2011 all IndyCar teams used the IR-05 chassis, although

966-671: The IndyCar Safety Cell ;– with the intent that the bodywork and aero parts can and will be provided by other manufacturers. The cars will be branded by the make who provides the "Aero Kit." Dallara rolled out the chassis with its own optional spec aero kit. The aero kit concept was temporarily shelved due to cost concerns, making the Dallara kit the universal spec for 2012-2014. Unique aero kits (manufactured by Chevrolet and Honda, respectively) were introduced for 2015-2017, and Dallara ceased to support and production of their own. In 2018,

1008-528: The Italian constructor and Beppe Lucchini's racing outfit endured until 1992 , with their best result being two third places: one at the 1989 Canadian Grand Prix with Andrea de Cesaris ; the other at the 1991 San Marino Grand Prix , thanks to JJ Lehto . The Constructors' Championship results were: no classification in 1988, 8th in 1989 (with 8 points), 15th (with no points) in 1990, 8th in 1991 (with 5 points) and 10th in 1992 (with 2 points) by Pierluigi Martini . Dallara returned briefly to F1 in 1999, building

1050-723: The Italian, French and German championships that year, while the British series saw numerous entrants – including champion Kelvin Burt – forced to switch from Reynard or Ralt chassis to Dallara in order to remain competitive. TOMS would win the Japanese championship with its own cars in 1993 and 1994 before switching to Dallara chassis. From then on Dallara would dominate the Formula Three market, although Martini had some success in France and Germany in

1092-581: The car. Dallara has provided the spec chassis to the Indy NXT series, formerly the Indy Lights Series since 2002. For the 2015 Indy Lights season , the car was replaced by the new generation Dallara IL-15, powered by Mazda's 2.0-litre turbocharged MZR-R four-cylinder engine. Dallara also designed the chassis for the Japanese Super Formula series, formerly known as Formula Nippon , called

1134-702: The chassis of the Lamborghini Espada and Miura . In 1969 he started to design race cars for Frank Williams , founder and manager of the Williams Formula One team. In 1972, Dallara founded and established Dallara Automobili in Parma, Italy. Starting from 1974, Dallara and his company started designing a Formula One car, the Iso-Marlboro IR , for the Williams Team . Another project included designing

1176-732: The company opened an engineering center in Speedway, Indiana , at the Speed Zone Redevelopment Area near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway , where they produce and assemble the IndyCar . The same building also houses an entertainment center, where visitors can learn how a racing car is manufactured. Dallara was one of the original three chassis constructors when the Indy Racing League debuted its own chassis formula during

1218-609: The completion of the cars—and the alleged low quality of the F110 chassis resulted in the two parties officially ending their partnership in May 2010. The car was used in all 2010 races without any development except the graphics. They had only one aerodynamic configuration, used for all races, including Monte Carlo and Monza . Geoff Willis , who joined Hispania in March 2010, criticized the F110, saying that he

1260-572: The late 1990s, including Sébastien Bourdais winning the French title in 1999. Since then Dallara has won every major Formula Three title, although Ho-Pin Tung won the 2006 Recaro F3 Cup in a Lola against a field that included several current Dallaras. Dallaras have won the Macau Grand Prix since 1993. In 1988 the company became a Formula One constructor , after being hired by BMS Scuderia Italia to build their chassis. The relationship between

1302-585: The new FIA Formula 3 Championship (formerly GP3 Series ), giving them a near-monopoly of every motorsport series used as a direct entry point into F1. In 2007 Dallara created a new car model, known as the Formulino ("little formula"), in order to fill the gap between karts and Formula Three. The first series to use the new concept was the ADAC Formel Masters in 2008 , and the MRF Challenge also adopted

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1344-583: The smaller engine classes. Dallara designed his first Formula Three car for Walter Wolf Racing in 1978. Dallara also had a brief involvement in Formula 3000 in the mid-1980s. The first F3 car under the Dallara name came in 1981, and the cars became particularly successful in Italy. Since 1985 Dallara drivers have taken the Italian Formula Three Championship every year except 1990. The late 1980s and early 1990s also saw Dallara make inroads into

1386-408: The test-chassis for Honda 's planned but aborted return to the series. During 2004, Dallara recruited ex- Jordan , Stewart and Jaguar F1 designer Gary Anderson , leading to speculation that the Italian company was working on another F1 project. Late in 2004 the nascent Midland team announced that Dallara would be designing and building their Formula One chassis which was due to be entered for

1428-479: The third generation of aero kits was introduced for the DW-12, again returning to a universal spec kit for all entries known as UAK18 and will be used until 2026. On 18 October, Dallara confirmed that the 2012 series car would be named after the late IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon (DW-12) in honor of his work testing the car before his death two days prior at Las Vegas , with the new bumper/nerf bar section being featured, it

1470-598: Was also one of the drivers with a reputation for ignoring blue flags . Examples given are the 1991 Monaco Grand Prix when he held up Emanuele Pirro in the Dallara , Stefano Modena in the Tyrrell , and Riccardo Patrese in the Williams for several laps despite running towards the back of the field, and the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix where he blocked Gerhard Berger in the Ferrari when

1512-572: Was designed to prevent many similar single-seater crashes such as the one that killed Wheldon. In 2002, Dallara became the exclusive supplier for World Series by Nissan , a move that allowed them to gain the contract for the World Series by Renault in 2004. Dallara was also appointed by the FIA to be the sole chassis builder, partner and supplier of the FIA Formula 2 Championship (formerly GP2 Series ) and

1554-406: Was disappointed at the quality and level of engineering in the car and that the design of the car was missing a lot of contemplating practices commonly employed in the process of building a Formula One car. On 15 April 2014 Gene Haas confirmed his new Formula One team, Haas F1 Team , had entered talks to form a partnership with Dallara in 2015 for the build of their first car. On 21 February 2016,

1596-738: Was introduced for the 2000 season ; named the IR-00. When updated for 2001 the chassis was designated as the IR-01 and for 2002 it was referred to as the IR-02. For the 2003 season , Dallara rolled out the new IR-03 chassis. This chassis would later become the de facto " spec-car " in the series. An aerodynamic update kit was released for 2004 , which changed its designation to IR-04 and later in 2007 , which changed its designation to IR-05. In addition, paddle-shifters began seeing use in 2008, further developing and evolving this generation of Dallaras. Chassis bearing both

1638-617: Was launched at the Geneva Motor Show in 2008. Dallara also provided engineering services for Renault ( R.S. 01 ), Alfa Romeo ( 8C and 4C ), Bugatti ( Veyron and Chiron ), Maserati ( MC12 and MC20 ), and Lamborghini ( motorsport variants of the Huracán ) In 2017, Dallara showed its first road car, the Stradale , on the occasion of Giampaolo Dallara's 81st birthday. Dallara also produces handbikes, under Z-Bike. They also designed

1680-556: Was named as one of four constructors for the LMP2 and DPi class regulations to debut in 2017, using its Dallara P217 chassis. In 2021, Dallara was named as one of four chassis suppliers for the LMDh sports prototype class, and currently supply BMW with their M Hybrid V8 and Cadillac with their V-Series.R . In 2007, Dallara and KTM produced the KTM X-Bow , a sports car with two seats, which

1722-476: Was synonymous with the Minardi team (run by the same Giancarlo Minardi who had previously owned Scuderia Everest ). Indeed, aside from a single outing with Toleman and a one-season dalliance with Scuderia Italia in 1992 , Martini's entire Formula One career was spent with the Italian outfit. He raced with the minnow team in three different stints, drove for them on their debut in 1985, scored their first point in

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1764-676: Was the Ferrari 333 SP , made for the new WSC regulations in the IMSA GT Championship . The 333 SP, manufactured at Michelotto, won a great number of races both in North America and Europe. Ferrari also hired Dallara to develop the racing version of the Ferrari F50 , the F50 GT , financed by French racing driver Fabien Giroix , but the project was aborted before it got off the ground, in 1998. As

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