Dallara Automobili Has Been Described As
160 180 200 140 220 120 240 100 260 80 280 60 300 km/h 40 20 0 Customer case | DALLARA AUTOMOBILI Dallara Automobili has been described as “the most successful racing car builder of modern time.” What’s its secret? TEXT CLAUDIA FLISI PHOTO MAURIZIO CAMAGNA Maximum velocity 10 evolution.skf.com #4 2012 ngineer Gian Paolo Dallara has Gothenburg, Sweden, in an apprenticeship at SKF. never been afraid of speed, on or off The experience served to improve his English and the racetrack. Quite the contrary: introduce him to SKF’s corporate culture. He built a company by seeking it “I saw how they worked,” he says, “and since then, out. Today, Dallara Automobili is bearings and SKF are synonymous in my mind. “theE world’s largest, most influential and most Throughout my career, whenever I had a choice successful racing car builder of modern time,” among components, I saw that it always paid to according to Motor Sport magazine. choose the high-quality option.” Although the company’s reach is global, its roots Quality has been a hallmark of Dallara’s own echo those of its founder, who was born a few metres career path. After graduation, he started at Ferrari from the company’s current headquarters in Varano in the technical department. Here, his nascent pas- Melegari, near Parma in northern Italy – and he still sion for car racing was fanned, and three years later lives in the same house. he followed it to Maserati. His first job there was to Gian Paolo Dallara earned his engineering follow the Cooper-Maserati Sebring 12 Hours.
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