Giampaolo Dallara

Giampaolo Dallara, born on 16 November 1936 in Parma, is an Italian businessman and motorsports engineer who owns Dallara Motorsports, a company that develops racing cars. He graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in aeronautical engineering, joined Ferrari in 1960 and Maserati the next year, and in 1963 became chief designer at Lamborghini, where he helped design the chassis of the Espada and the Miura. In 1969 he began designing race cars for Frank Williams and co-founded the Autodromo Riccardo Paletti at Varano, and in 1972 he founded Dallara Automobili there. His firm moved into IndyCar racing in 1997 and has been the single chassis supplier of the series since 2007. In 2015 he became an investor in the Parma Calcio 1913 football club.