02/2010 MAGAZINE

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INDYCAR IN DALLARA’S AMERICAN FUTURE THERE ARE THREE CONCEPT FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS OF THE SERIES AND THE PROJECT OF AN HEADQUARTERS F. 3 2010 PROMISES TO BE A GREAT FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FORMULA 1 LOTS OF TALENTED DRIVERS ARE NOW SUCCESSFUL IN F.1 THANKS TO THE DALLARA SCHOOL A DOUBLE INDYCAR VICTORY

THE AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP AND THE ITALIAN SINGLE-SEATERS, A COMBINATION THAT HAS LASTED SINCE 1997 AND THROUGH EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS HAS TRANSFORMED INDYCAR INTO A SINGLE BRAND

Justin Wilson and Ed Carpenter fighting hard on the Miami Speedway

2 IndyCar is synonymous with Dallara. From the road of Long Beach, the external wheel have a diameter Since 1997 we have had luck on our California to the ups and downs of bigger than the internal one. There are side. The name of the championship Sonoma; from the Indianapolis Motor also details from a functional point of has changed together with the type of Speedway to the track made by view, just think of oiling. When the championship, people in charge, utilising Airport; the IndyCar only turns left, the oil tends to drivers and teams. But Dallara is a challenge is one of the most accumulate in one part, creating fixture in the races, defined as the competitive for someone planning and problems for both the uptake and fastest in the world, in which the building a car. “You need to take into return. As the centrifugal force is very single-seaters can reach average speeds account the two different requirements”, high, we are talking about 5g. For the of 370 kilometres an hour on the fast explains Andrea Toso, head of R&D and same reasons, the petrol tank must be oval tracks such Indianapolis and Fort of the American Dallara projects. specially designed”. Worth, and compete to the last lap on “A car for the oval has many The challenge is also about the drivers city and road circuits. asymmetrical components. and their safety and comfort: “The The numbers speak for themselves. The The camber, for example, is positive on driver is constantly leaning on right first race of 2010 will be Dallara’s one side but negative on the other, and headrest, but this is not all; with a force 150th victory in the competition of 5g, one foot can weigh 20kg and well (victories in over 82% of entered races designed heel rests are needed if feet since its debut), made up of 9 Indy are not to slide off the pedals… 500s and 11 championships. Thirty-one It is a different philosophy”. drivers, and 14 teams, have known the joy of success in a Dallara.

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«WE’VE ALWAYS HAD A GOOD RELATIONSHIP team because they know we are helpful and can count on our complete honesty WITH THE TEAM BECAUSE THEY KNOW WE ARE HELPFUL and privacy. This is the basis of a fruitful AND THEY CAN COUNT ON OUR COMPLETE HONESTY AND PRIVACY. exchange of information, knowing that THIS IS THE BASIS OF A FRUITFUL EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION, only benefits come from the partner”. With a second season completed we KNOWING THAT ONLY BENEFITS COME FROM THE PARTNER» had an impressive result, with the ANDREA TOSO addition of the title, another eight victories out of eleven races and, above all, the double at Indianapolis, which began the years of domination . To complicate things come the and opened the way for a design more "Indianapolis is everything, the winners expansions, initially only on the oval orientated towards versatility. Also remain in history, and their names will tracks. “On the road courses the car is thanks to the experience gained since be remembered for ever, more than just very different. For example, the the start of a range that developed every other race or every other differential should be added, and the around Indy. championship”. In 1999, the first suspension must resist completely "The beginning was very difficult”, eleven cars that finished the Indy 500 different forces. There is acceleration and remembers Toso, “because we faced a Miles were . From this point on breaking, and there are kerbs whilst on new world, a reality completely different the supremacy that became a the oval circuits the weight is from that which we knew. It was monopoly began. “It should always be predominantly to one side during a race necessary to face the new world, and the remembered that the IndyCar Series covered at high on a curve. In change was made by listening to the does not have a single brand, but this is 2002, with the ovals in mind, we teams. Realising that they were right in the way it is. An effect of the results. In designed a car with pull-rod suspension, many aspects, because they had much the beginning we were viewed with to lower the mass. Once it had been more experience”. Despite the enormous suspicion, now we have reached the decided that we also had to deal with challenge, there were three victories in stage where to win you need to have a the road courses, making the the 1997 season, one of which was the Dallara chassis. We are very proud of adjustments did not prove to be the best second race entered, at Phoenix. “We’ve this and hope to continue along the for comfort”. The result was successful always had a good relationship with the same route”.

4 IndyCar singleseaters need to be set in different ways for speedways and street circuits: a challenge won by Dallara’s engineers

A path that has taken an Italian business «IN THE BEGINNING WE WERE VIEWED WITH to be the constructor with the most wins SUSPICION NOW WE HAVE REACHED in the history of IndyCar. Achieving also , a safety record that would have been THE STAGE WHERE TO WIN YOU NEED almost impossible to imagine in the past, TO HAVE A DALLARA CHASSIS. WE ARE VERY creating a unique symbiosis between PROUD OF THIS AND HOPE TO CONTINUE technology, professionalism and two countries separated by distance but ALONG THE SAME ROUTE» united in unprecedented success. ANDREA TOSO

5 INDYCAR ON THE COUNT OF THREE

DALLARA HAS DESIGNED THREE PROJECTS FOR THE FIVE YEAR PERIOD 2012-2017. THE GOAL IS NOT ONLY TO PUT ON A SHOW BUT TO ACCOUNT FOR SAFETY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND COSTS; TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE GLOBAL REDEFINING OF THE CAR INDUSTRY

The IndyCar Series has established all three of the desired priority being to avoid potential four fundamental rules for cars performances. IndyCar is facing a contact between wheels at high entering onto the track, with the very delicate phase, having to speed. "All three of the cars have formula of the single brand, in the choose a project that will take it up chassis wider than the track, with five year period of 2012-2017, and to the end of 2017, and adapt it to protection structures close to the Dallara have put their cards on the choices that have not yet been wheel to prevent wheel to wheel table. With three concepts that made. Perhaps one week the race contact". The show factor is next, look towards the future but will be in Daytona and another in responding to the need for a present themselves as immediately Alaska in the cold and the car must well-balanced race, overtaking and feasible. "None of these concepts is be ready for each situation. fighting for position, relying on just an exercise", explains Andrea Requiring assistance and changes, immediately recognisable cars, Toso. "We will be able to start all the things that we have already aesthetically satisfying, with a large constructing them, then put them been able to guarantee for years". space for the sponsor. on the track where we would have The first thought is safety, with the In a moment of global economic

6 «THE NEW GENERATION OF INDYCAR WILL PROBABLY EXIST AS A SINGLE BRAND. THE TEAMS WILL NOT NEED ALL THE DIFFERENT PARTS AVAILABLE THAT ARE NECESSARY NOW FOR THE DIFFERENT TRACK TYPES» ANDREA TOSO

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difficulty, the commercial aspect Indianapolis, and all three concepts are the result of careful numerical and costs should not be include the option of new study, both with regards to underestimated, they are generation turbocharged engines". suspension and aerodynamics. fundamental: "The reduction in Technology that will be applied There is a fairly traditional car, price is the consequence of various also to road cars of the future, and directly evolved from the existing factors, above all the fact that the that will join the push towards model; one of the models has an new generation of IndyCar will exist energy efficiency. The reduction of angular ’90s look, a bit retro; and as a single brand. The teams will the weight and the aerodynamic finally the more radical third car is not need all the different parts development will actually more original. It is this one that I available that are necessary now for maintain the present performance like the most, because it makes a the different track types. levels. Less than six hundred horse leap forward compared with present All these factors come from the power will be necessary to reach a standards. In this case the sidepods competition between G-Force and 360 kilometres an hour average, are further back. The more . Furthermore, the new cars thanks to a weight reduction. important anti-contact structure will be constructed in the United The impact will be on the is in front of the front wheels, States, and this will lead to savings technology, on the visual side, on whilst the back is similar to the in terms of duties, customs and the show factor but also on the prototype. The front end is lean and even currency". environment. After using biofuel clean. It unites the technical Not forgetting performance and for several seasons, IndyCar wants necessities with the fact that is truly efficiency. The new IndyCar will to survive and reconfirm itself at a beautiful product of design”. The have to be a reflection of the the top; less weight and power and idea is put forward, to restore the rethinking in both the American greater efficiency will certainly go American open wheel car and the world. "Our IndyCar is in its favour. Three different championship to the leading American in all respects, ready to be versions have been proposed, with position that the fastest series in born into the new American base at the same contents. “All three cars the world deserves.

8 The American headquarters: a research centre connected to universities and open to the public

The idea is to have a base on the and the surrounding area, through educational and maintenance other side of the Atlantic, able to partnerships with local suppliers; workshops”. A wide-ranging project create and exchange technological but also creating a relationship with and a long term capacity to expertise, not just to produce and American universities, who can integrate into the American reality assemble cars. “Dallara’s American provide input with regards to in the best way, designed in a multi- headquarters would be an research, and develop effective functional space where the new achievement but also a starting methods to be used in future Dallara simulator, which is being designed point, capable of developing the projects. “An exchange in , would be engineering business that represents between US and Italian installed: “To give drivers 40% of the turnover of the Italian engineers is predicted, with and track engineers the factory, both in the field of racing the aim of studying and opportunity to develop and supercars”, says Andrea better understanding the and test the cars before Pontremoli, Dallara’s CEO and different realities of putting the wheels on the General Manager. in the two track, and also to give It is not by chance that this countries - says Pontremoli visitors the thrill of a multifaceted centre is a few steps - with Italian staff being virtual test in an away from the Indianapolis employed in the States and IndyCar”. In Dallara’s Speedway, able to establish a American engineers philosophy, expertise and connection between high technology travelling to Italy for passion go hand in hand.

«OUR INDYCAR IS AMERICAN IN ALL RESPECTS, READY TO BE BORN INTO THE NEW AMERICAN BASE AT INDIANAPOLIS, AND ALL THREE CONCEPTS INCLUDE THE OPTION OF NEW GENERATION TURBOCHARGED ENGINES» ANDREA TOSO

9 Discovering the drivers that started their professional ROAD & TRACK & ROAD LA NOVITÀ career on a Dallara car THE SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS

The Dallara school is well represented in the world of F1. A lot of the new generation of drivers were able to Lewis Hamilton, F1 world champion in 2008 with technically develop driving the Italian McLaren-Mercedes, lent his name to the Dallara brand for three seasons, from 2004 to 2006. constructor’s single-seater. From F3, the The British talent raced for two seasons, European Championship or national series, in the European F3 Championship: he finished fifth in 2004 with John Booth’s Manor Team; the to the World Series by 3.5 or the following year he became the winner of the GP2 Main Series, the Grand category, whilst the championship belonged Prix starting grid is made up of many of to the ART team. With the same team, Hamilton made his debut in GP2 Main Series and straight Dallara’s “students”. In this issue we look at away in the first year took the title. certain drivers who will be on the track in 2004: Dallara-Mercedes F.3 Euro Series Bahrain and have made their way in 2005: Dallara-Mercedes F.3 Euro Series motorsport driving the Italian car. 2006: Dallara-Renault GP2 Main Series

10 The young talent of Bull, began his path The Pole, first pilot from eastern Europe to win an F1 Grand Prix, towards F1 by taking part in the F3 Euro began his brilliant professional driving a Dallara single-seater with Series with a Dallara-Mercedes for the Mucke the Prema team in the F3 Euro Series of 2003. He remained in the team in 2005. Finishing the season in fifth same category the following year, competing with the Mucke team. place, the following year he obtained second Kubica then made the leap to the World Series by Renault 3.5 and place in the same category, with the same with the team Epsilon Euskadi, in 2005, he immediately won the German team. In 2007 he was promoted to championship. The Polish driver then became the F1 BMW test the World Series by Renault 3.5, a category driver in 2006 and half way through the year had the chance to that he had already had experience from make his world debut. some races in 2006, with excellent results. Whilst the Dallara, for the Carlin Team, 2003: Dallara- F.3 Euro Series clearly dominated the overall classification, 2004: Dallara-Mercedes F.3 Euro Series Vettel was called directly to F1 to replace 2005: Dallara-Renault World Series Renault 3.5 .

2005: Dallara-Mercedes F.3 Euro Series 2006: Dallara-Mercedes F.3 Euro Series 2007: Dallara-Renault World Series Renault 3.5

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Sébastien Buemi After the Swiss driver of the Red Bull team had The current Mercedes driver made his way to high obtained some experience in the category which level international racing in the Dallara-Opel of follows karting, he graduated to the European F3 the F3 Euro Series. In 2003 he gained experience, Championship where he met the Dallara single-seater and the following year Rosberg continued with the of the Mucke team. Buemi stayed in the category for team managed by his father in the F3 Euro Series, two years, where he had the chance to test the Dallara finishing in fourth place overall. The German GP2, alternating between the two series. The Swiss driver, son of Keke Rosberg, the F1 World driver was placed second in the F3 Euro Series. In Champion in 1982, was promoted to GP2 still 2008, he made the transition to GP2 with the Arden connected with the Dallara brand. He reached team, finishing in sixth position, from there he moved victory on the first attempt with the ART team, up to F1 with Toro Rosso. which opened the doors to F1.

2006: Dallara-Mercedes F.3 Euro Series 2003: Dallara-Opel F.3 Euro Series 2007: Dallara-Mercedes F.3 Euro Series 2004: Dallara-Opel F.3 Euro Series 2008: Dallara-Renault GP2 Main Series 2005: Dallara-Renault GP2 Main Series

12 Jaime Alguersuari Nico Hulkenberg The Spaniard made F1 history for being the youngest He is a new face in the F1 world in 2010. driver to participate in a Grand Prix. The event Hulkenberg will make his debut with the Williams occurred in the Budapest race of 2009. Alguersuari team and in his professional training he is closely then moved up into the Toro Rosso without having tied to the Dallara brand. The German Pilot began to go through testing, coming directly from the in the F3 Euro Series 2007 championship, finishing World Series by Renault 3.5 where he drove the third with a car managed by the ART team. Still Dallara-Renault with the Carlin team. A very good with the French team, Hulkenberg won the demonstration of the school of the single-seaters continental F3 championship in 2008. Like constructed in the Italian factory, and it shows the Hamilton, he won his debut at the GP2 Main ease with which Alguersuari was able to adapt to the Series, with the trusted ART team. F1 Toro Rosso’s drive. Previously, Alguersuari had participated with the Carlin team’s Dallara in the 2007: Dallara-Mercedes F.3 Euro Series British F3 Championship, winning on his debut. 2008: Dallara-Mercedes F.3 Euro Series 2009: Dallara-Renault GP2 Main Series 2008: Dallara-Mercedes British F.3 2009: Dallara-Renault World Series Renault 3.5

13 ITALIAN F3 ITALIAN THE ITALIAN JOB

SINCE 1980, AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE LAST 20 YEARS, DALLARA HAS BEEN A MAIN CHARACTER IN F3, AND HAS ALL THE RIGHT CARDS FOR THE 2010 SEASON, WHICH PROMISES TO BE A CLOSELY FOUGHT AND EXCITING SEASON

The Italian F3 Championship will 2010. A field of competitors Cram-SG, TP Formula, RP have many participants and after enriched by the presence of the Motorsport. It will not lack some years of difficulty it will teams that have made F3’s competition with a foreign return to be a national reference history (such as Prema, RC constructor who will further raise within Europe. The Dallara has Motorsport, Ombra) and that the technical challenge in the always been one of the category’s have re-entered in the national Italian F3. In these weeks the protagonists. The first competition after years of collective testing is taking place, championship was taken in 1980 absence and who join the to prepare for the first race of the by Guido Pardini and the title traditional teams such as calendar on 25th April at Misano. was taken again the following Corbetta, Lucidi, BVM Target, In total there will be eight races, year by Eddy . The Ghinzani and new members two of which will be abroad. competition with British chassis in F.3 was never an easy one, but Dallara took back the Queen’s crown between 1985 and 1989, and then went on to win between 1991 and 2009. The Dallara and the F3 national competition have a long and happy history together, and Dallara has established itself with various engines: , Volkswagen, Opel and . This last one became the official engine, the only one in the category. Recently, thanks to the good work done by CSAI (the Italian Federation) with the prize for the top three, together with the testing with F1, the Italian F3 has regained the momentum it had lost. No less than 26 cars are predicted for

14 Team Prema’s Dallara (above) and team Corbetta’s one (bottom)

The Dallara victories in the Italian F3

From 1980 to 1981 From 1985 to 1989 From 1991 1991 to 2009

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The idea to start a revolution in how both their experience on the track and Prototype, and others. the car is thought about was born a the value they take from it in the The Dallara simulator will be year ago at Dallara. It is Dallara’s future. The driver will be able to constructed in an aluminium responsibility to react innovatively to measure his own potential in a composite and will be completed with the economic crisis in general and in controlled and repeatable the forefront in audio and video. particular in motorsport, to develop environment; the engineers will be To create a high level of immersion safe, competitive vehicles that are able to objectively record the and realism, the internal structure(the pleasant to drive, but at the same time experience which the car gives to the drivers “office”) is made from real keeping the cost to a minimum. The driver; the vehicle will be able to be monocoque, with a changeable latest instrument that the factory has improved in situations that are difficult function depending on the vehicle been equipped with is an exiting new to plan for on the track. being studied. driving simulator that is the state of Unlike many of the simulators that are Weighing more than two tons, the the art in its field. already commercially available and structure will run on a system with It is an ambitious aim: to develop a only designed for one type of vehicle, over 100 kilowatts of power and will vehicle; train drivers and track the Dallara simulator is designed to be anchored to a foundation of over engineers; and to shed light on the transform and adapt itself to a wide two hundred tons. In short, a real mental mechanisms the develop in the range of clients and cars (racing, laboratory of virtual reality which we interaction between man and machine. automotive and more), because Dallara will have the possibility to better The collaboration between Dallara and is present in several championships, understand and deepen our knowledge the teams will be the key to its success. for example: IndyCar, , F3, in all aspects, in the upcoming issues The simulator’s advantages will be GP2, GP3, World Series, Daytona of the magazine. Published by Dallara Automobili Dallara Published by in cooperation with Inpagina srl ([email protected])

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