22 Facts About Dallara

Dallara is an Italian race car manufacturer, founded by its current President, Gian Paolo Dallara.

Dallara is the sole manufacturer of racing cars for the IndyCar Series, Indy Lights, Formula 2, Formula 3 and Super Formula Championships.

Dallara produces cars for endurance races such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Daytona.

Dallara designed his first Formula Three car for Walter Wolf Racing in 1978.

Dallara had a brief involvement in Formula 3000 in the mid-1980s.

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Since 1985 Dallara drivers have taken the Italian Formula Three Championship every year except 1990.

The late 1980s and early 1990s saw Dallara make inroads into the German and French markets, winning the German title in 1987 and the French in 1987 and 1992.

Dallara returned briefly to F1 in 1999, building the test-chassis for Honda's planned but aborted return to the series.

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 the 2006 season.

Dallara built the cars for Hispania's entry in the 2010 season.

Dallara debuted as a chassis supplier at the IndyCar Series in 1997, and has been the single chassis supplier since 2007.

In 2013, Dallara reached its milestone 200th Indy car victory at Barber.

Dallara was one of the original three chassis constructors when the Indy Racing League debuted its own chassis formula during the 1997 season.

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 appointed by the FIA to be the sole chassis builder of the FIA Formula 2 Championship and the new FIA Formula 3 Championship, 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, in order to fill the gap between karts and Formula Three.

Dallara designed the chassis for the Japanese Super Formula series, formerly known as Formula Nippon, called the Dallara SF19.

Ferrari 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.

In 2015 Dallara was named as one of four constructors for the new LMP2 and DPi class regulations to debut in 2017, using its Dallara P217 chassis.

In 2017, Dallara showed its first road car, the Stradale, on the occasion of Gian Paolo Dallara's 81st birthday.

Rosetta probe, Dallara designed the drill that is part of the Philae robotic lander.

Dallara has partnered with Raytheon to provide the MALD for the United States Air Force.