ESPImperium wrote:The Dallara web site says it does the Oreca sports cars, so there-fore ALMS.
http://www.dallara.it/
And i do class consultancy as well, as they have had some involvement in the car.
So the site reads:
Dallara has a great record of success in sportscar design and manufacture, having been responsible for some of the most notable cars produced in the last 2 decades. These have included the Lancia Group C cars, The Ferrari 333, the Toyota GT1 Le Mans Car, chassis consultancy on the all conquering Audi R8 and most recently the development of the latest generation of car for the Oreca/Chrysler team.
The Oreca achieved a 4th place finish in the 2001 24 Hours of Le Mans, outperforming many of the higher funded factory cars. In the USA, the car was also raced by the Doran Racing Team, who won the 24 Hours of Daytona in February 2003.
That would be
this car. Apparently, the Audi they were involved in was only the R8, so it seems they have no chassis produced currently for the ACO series.
Also according to the site, they are doing currently IRL,GP2, World Series 3.5, Indy Lights, F3 and Grand-Am. It kind of depends on which are considered "top class formulas", from the top of my head they are not involved in FNippon, Master, Superleague or Auto GP (previously F3000 Euro).
Impressive as it is, the fact is it mainly stresses their ability to win tenders for single-make formulas. Currently, only in F3 they run against other makes and, even there, virtually everyone uses Dallaras. Sure, that means that their F3's are very good, but also that every other chassis supplier faces a difficult market, where established teams already know the Dallara by heart (even some having already established analitical models for it), are used to work on it and have developed it (furthermore, it is easier for teams to "police" what their competitors are doing and taking ideas when the guy on the next garage has the same chassis as you), making it almost impossible for anyone else to sell F3's.
So far, their F1 chassis were never brilliant (their best F1 was made 21 years ago), so let's see how the Campos car will turn out.
