Dallara – It’s a beautiful story
Cesare Fiorio, Frank Williams, Mario Andretti, Jean Todt (and other racing drivers and managers) describe not one but several beautiful stories, all of them referring to Giampaolo Dallara.
Frank Williams (several Formula 1’s world championship winner) thinks that Giampaolo Dallara is very similar to his technical director (“He’s a Patrick Head-type of engineer to whom the fundamentals of physics and mechanics are sacred”) while Mario Andretti (Formula 1 world champion and Indy’s winner) remembers that Dallara “also succeeded where even Ferrari failed: he’s won at Indianapolis”.
First winning in Indianapolis 500 miles has curious roots: future winner Eddie Cheever cannot pay a Dallara chassis and his sponsor cannot help him (“they had lots and lots of potato chips but very little money”). Cheever calls Caterina Dallara (Giampaolo’s daughter and the… Read the rest
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