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FORMULA 1F.1 DALLARA:A TWENTY-TWO YEAR HISTORYsaw a move to a Ferrari engine andwould be the final year for the ScuderiaItalia’s Dallara.It seemed like it was over, but theopportunity returned. In 1999 Hondaknocked on Dallara’s door to ask themto make a car torejoin the great F1competition, afterexiting way back in1968. It wassupposed to be akind of exercise instyle, a prototype,waiting for a HondaCentre in England totake care ofdevelopment.Designed togetherwith the Britishengineer HarveyPostlethwaite, whohad previouslyworked for Ferrariand Tyrell; the carwas subjected tolong testing sessionsboth at Suzuka andJerez, and the Dutchdriver JosVerstappenachieved amazingtimes with theItalian-Japanesesingleseater.Postlethwaite’ssudden death froma heart attack and Honda’s decision notto devote themselves to their own team,but to support the BAR team with theirengines, put an end to the project.The F1 project did not even take off in2005 when the Midland owner, Russian-Canadian businessman Alez Shnaiderasked, through his director Colin Kolles,for a Dallara singleseater. Later however,Schnaier took over Jordan and underpressure from the English team’stechnical personnel, he decided to stopthe collaboration with Dallara. Afterthat, the Parma business worked solelyEmanuele Pirroin the cockpitof the ScuderiaItalia’s Dallara 190in 1990on the development of certainaerodynamic details.And it continued like this until recently,when between 2009 and 2010, Dallara’sreal second adventure in Formula onebegan. Not an easy route, but one takenwith the Varano factory’s usual passionand professionalism. There have been12