Giampaolo Dallara

Giampaolo Dallara (born 1936 in Parma) is an Italian businessman and motorsports engineer, the owner of Dallara Motorsports, a company that develops racing cars. He graduated in aeronautical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, joined Ferrari in 1960 and moved to Maserati the next year. In 1963 Lamborghini hired him as chief designer, and with Paolo Stanzani and Bob Wallace he designed the chassis of the Espada and the Miura. From 1969 he designed race cars for Frank Williams and co-founded the Autodromo Riccardo Paletti at Varano, and in 1972 he founded Dallara Automobili there. The company designed the Iso-Marlboro IR Formula One car from 1974, built Formula 3 cars that won across Europe, Japan and the United States, entered IndyCar racing in 1997 and has been the single chassis supplier of IndyCar since 2007. He also worked on projects for Honda, Oreca, Midland and Campos Grand Prix.