Dallara

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A DW12 of the IndyCar Series 2015
The Dallara F304 Formula 3 car in a frame race of the 2006 Australian Grand Prix
A Formula V8 3.5 vehicle, 2014

Dallara Automobili is a motor vehicle manufacturer from Varano de 'Melegari near Parma , Italy with years of restriction on racing cars . Dallara designs chassis for numerous racing classes. In Formula 3 , IndyCar Series , GP3 Series , Formula V8 3.5 and Formula E , Dallara chassis are used almost exclusively ; In Formula 1, however, Dallara has not yet achieved a breakthrough despite several attempts. Dallara has served the US racing team Haas F1 as a production facility since 2016 .

overview

The company was founded in 1972 by engineer Gian Paolo Dallara , who had previously designed automobiles and racing cars for Ferrari , De Tomaso and Lamborghini . Initially, Dallara designed and built chassis for sports car and hill climbs. Dallara has been a chassis manufacturer in Italian Formula 3 since 1978 , where all championships have been won since then. In 1987 Dallara constructed a Formula 3000 vehicle with the model 3087 , which was used in that year and in 1988 by the Euroventurini and Forti Corse teams and showed considerable deficits. In 1988, Dallara entered Formula 1 as a designer for Beppe Lucchini's Scuderia Italia team . The connection lasted until 1992, but was only crowned with minor success. Since the 1990s, Dallara has been developing further vehicles for Formula 1 on behalf of various companies that either were not used or proved to be non-competitive.

In 1993, Dallara developed a Formula 3 chassis, which within a short period of time was able to almost completely oust the competing vehicle manufacturers Reynard and Ralt from most of the Formula 3 championships. The Dallara chassis for the Indy Racing League , which was first used in 1997, also enjoys a virtual monopoly in this racing series.

Dallara has been a chassis supplier for Formula V8 3.5 (formerly World Series by Nissan or Formula V8 3.5 ) since 2002 , replacing Coloni as the manufacturer of the standard chassis . The Formula 1 junior class GP2 series is also driven exclusively with a Dallara chassis.

In 1993, Dallara successfully returned to sports car racing with the Ferrari 333SP . Dallara later developed the racing version of the Ferrari F50 , the aerodynamics of the Toyota GT-One , and some versions of the Audi R8 . The Dallara SP1 was used from 2000 to 2005 . Dallara is one of the four chassis manufacturers appointed by the FIA ​​and the ACO for the LMP2 class from 2017, the Dallara P217 was created .

The X-Bow , a racing car for the road, was developed together with KTM for around 45,000 euros.

In November 2017, the company's first street-legal vehicle, the Dallara Stradale, was delivered.

Dallara in Formula 1

Giampaolo Dallara designed: the 1970 from Williams De Tomaso used 308/505

Williams and De Tomaso

Gian Paolo Dallara first came into contact with Formula 1 in 1970 when he designed a Formula 1 chassis for the Argentine-Italian entrepreneur Alejandro de Tomaso . The car, known as De Tomaso 308/505, was used by Frank Williams Racing Cars in the 1970 Formula 1 season . The car is less known for its successes than for the fact that British racing driver Piers Courage had a fatal accident in it at the Dutch Grand Prix in late summer 1970.

Merzario

In the 1979 Formula 1 season , Dallara reworked the Kauhsen WK5 designed by the Willi Kauhsen Racing Team on behalf of the racing driver Arturo Merzario . The Merzario team reported the car to seven world championship races as the Merzario A4 from summer 1979 . The A4 failed to qualify for every Grand Prix. The A4 only took part in the Gran Premio di Dino Ferrari , a sparse race without world championship status.

BMS Scuderia Italia

Dallara 191 from 1991 . The group of companies of the team owner Giuseppe Lucchini advertises on the side boxes.

In the 1980s, Dallara had a particularly good reputation as a designer of Formula 3 racing cars. When the entrepreneur Giuseppe Lucchini, who ran a racing team involved in touring car racing, became interested in his team entering Formula 1 after the end of the turbo era, it seemed obvious to have the future Formula 1 chassis developed by Dallara, to avoid setting up your own development center. At the same time, for example, Gérard Larrousse , who had his Formula 1 vehicles developed and built by Lola , was pursuing a similar concept .

The alliance between Dallara and Lucchini lasted from 1988 to 1992 . During these years, Dallara developed five types of vehicles that received engines from Cosworth (1988 to 1990), Judd (1991) and Ferrari (1992). The team mainly used Italian drivers. Alex Caffi (1988–1989), Andrea de Cesaris (1989–1990), Gianni Morbidelli (1990), Emanuele Pirro (1990–1991), JJ Lehto (1991–1992) and Pierluigi Martini (1992) drove for BMS-Dallara .

The successes remained modest. Dallara's cars were in direct competition with the vehicles of the poorly funded Minardi team, which, with one exception, was usually better placed in the constructors' championship. In the five years of the partnership between Dallara and BMS, the best result was a third place for JJ Lehto at the 1991 Grand Prix of San Marino . In the first year as well as in 1990 the team did not reach any points in the constructors' championship, in 1989 and 1991 it was eighth with eight (1989) and three points (1991) respectively, and in 1992 it finished the championship with two points in tenth.

In the 1992 Formula 1 season, Andrea Moda Formula took over the rear axle construction of the Dallara BMS 191 and combined it with the outdated chassis of the Coloni C4 . The vehicle was registered for the 1992 Formula 1 World Championship for Alex Caffi and Enrico Bertaggia under the name Andrea Moda Coloni C4B , but was not used because the team was initially disqualified at the beginning of the season.

Honda

1999 built Dallara for Honda four copies of the by Harvey Postlethwaite developed Honda RA099, the precursor of a vehicle with Honda in 2000, was the factory in the Formula 1 World Championship return. Jos Verstappen tested the RA099 on various occasions. However, the project was ended in the spring of 1999 after Postlethwaite's death.

Hispania Racing F1 Team

Developed by Dallara: the HRT F110 of the 2010 newly founded team Hispania Racing.

In 2009, Dallara was commissioned by Adrián Campos to develop a Formula 1 car for his newly established Campos Grand Prix team . After Campos got into economic difficulties, Hispania Racing F1 Team took over the project and used Dallara's car in the 2010 Formula 1 season under the name HRT F110 . The car was only completed a few hours before the first race of the 2010 season and proved to be uncompetitive over the course of the year. Team members attributed this mainly to the fact that the car in its entirety did not correspond to the status of Formula 1; Dallara has chosen simple, outdated solutions in many areas. HRT severed the connection to Dallara in May 2010 and developed the vehicle independently.

Formula 3 championships of later Formula 1 drivers with Dallara

Dallara F312 (2012-2016)

literature

  • Adriano Cimarosti: The Century of Racing. Cars, tracks and pilots. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 .
  • David Hodges, Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945 , 1st edition Stuttgart (Motorbuch Verlag) 1993.
  • Sam Collins: Unraced, Formula One's Lost Cars ; Veloce 2007. ISBN 978-1-84584-084-6 (English) (for the Honda RA 099 built by Dallara).

Web links

Commons : Dallara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norman Fischer: Hurdle overcome: Haas team passes crash test. In: motorsport-total.com. January 9, 2016, accessed February 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ LMP2 DALLARA P217 SPECS. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Dallara Stradale. dallara.it, November 16, 2017, accessed on January 22, 2018 .
  4. ^ David Hodges: Rennwagen from A – Z after 1945 , Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 190.
  5. ↑ For the Honda RA099 cf. Collins: Unraced, p. 49 ff.
  6. ↑ cf. Motorsport Aktuell, issue 15/2010, p. 21
  7. ↑ "Far from being a Formula 1 standard": Interview with Geoff Willis on www.motorsport-total.com
  8. ↑ HRT is building its own car for 2011. Note on www.motorsport-total.com (from May 6, 2010)


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