Formula 1 F.3 Indycar

02/2010 MAGAZINE PUBLISHED BY DALLARA INDYCAR IN DALLARA’S AMERICAN FUTURE THERE ARE THREE CONCEPT CARS FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS OF THE SERIES AND THE PROJECT OF AN INDIANAPOLIS HEADQUARTERS F. 3 2010 PROMISES TO BE A GREAT SEASON 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 car championship, people in charge, utilising Edmonton 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. 3 INDYCAR «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 Dallaras. 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 speed 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 7 INDYCAR 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 Panoz. 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.

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